Digital camera interface board is PCI compatible
Digital camera interface board is PCI compatible
Digital cameras provide several advantages over analog cameras. To interface such cameras to the PCI bus, BitFlow is offering RoadRunner, a $2100 PCI card that is software configurable for four synchronized 8-bit cameras, two multiplexed 8- or 16-bit cameras, or one camera with four 8-bit taps. RoadRunner`s DMA engine places image data into the PC`s address space, transforming the PC memory into a frame buffer. The board conserves host CPU performance through interrupt-driven sync. Rather than poll for DMA completion, the board processes a list of DMA commands without host intervention. The result is transparent image transfer with minimal cost overhead.
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