Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced a conduction cooled variant of XMC-280 JPEG2000 video compression XMC mezzanine card. It simplifies the integration of high performance and visually lossless video compression into rugged military systems.
The mezzanine card captures, compresses, decompresses and displays two channels of video at resolutions up to 1080p. It is used for military applications, such as situational awareness, that require the distribution or recording, display and storage of mission-critical video. It features mezzanine format, video IO via XMC rear IO connectors Pn5 and Pn6 up to 1920x1200pixel at 60Hz with analogue RGB and digital visual interface signals.
The video compression technology is claimed for compressing each frame individually, eliminating any dependencies on preceding or subsequent frames. This frame-by-frame compression results in lower latency and high resistance to errors in transmission, says the company.
Audio support has two stereo channels or four mono channels and 16bit 48kHz, waveform audio file format and pulse-code modulation encoding.
The four-lane PCI Express 1.1 interface provides more than 500Mbyte/s in each direction. Software support includes Windows and Linux on x86 and Power Architecture hosts.
The mezzanine card is integrated into video recording, distribution and Sentric2 digital recording solutions. It also enables distribution of multiple channels of high-definition video over standard Gigabit Ethernet networks. It combines good video quality with minimal network latency.
