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Nuvation Introduces Four Video Reference Designs Based on Texas Instruments' DaVinci™ Technology

At the upcoming Embedded Systems Conference (San Jose, April 14-18) and ISC-West (Las Vegas, April 2-4), Nuvation will be demonstrating four new video reference designs starring TI's DaVinci™ Technology.

Nuvation's new IP Camera 'PoE' reference design joins Nuvation's IP Cam 'Mini' reference design introduced at last year's TIDC, with the PoE version sporting a new form factor with enhanced features, COGS and thermal characteristics. Nuvation's IP Camera PoE utilizes TI's TPS23750, a PoE 802.3af-compliant PD controller with integrated DC/DC converter. With the optional PoE board installed, power can be transmitted with the data over Ethernet and thus requires no external power adapter to be connected to the IP Camera. Nuvation's IP Camera reference designs also incorporate Pixim's Orca imaging chipset with revolutionary Digital Pixel System® (DPS) technology which improves image quality and color accuracy, critical for positive subject identification in video surveillance applications.

Nuvation's Intelligent Video Server (IVS) is a reference design for a 1-channel audio/video streamer which can adapt a standard CCTV analog camera into an Internet Protocol (IP) streamer. PoE is also incorporated in the IVS reference design. The IP Camera and IVS reference designs compress real-time, full-color 720x480 (D1) video over Ethernet at up to 30 frames per second as well as optional video analytics intelligence. The reference designs utilize TI's TMS320DM644x processor which is a highly integrated, DSP-based system-on-chip (SoC) featuring an ARM926 processor in addition to the TMS320C64x+(TM) DSP core. They support configurable software implementations from TI and third parties including H.264, MPEG-4/H.263, MPEG-2, MJPEG, G.711, and video analytics. The IP Camera and IVS reference designs incorporate an embedded Real-Time Linux Operating System as well.

Nuvation's new Multichannel Video Front End (McVFE) reference design is geared for video security OEMs that need to merge multiple video streams for encoding in TI DaVinci(TM) devices. The McVFE reference design supports up to 16 analog video channel inputs and utilizes four TVP5154 quad-channel low power video decoders with independent scalers and a low-cost Xilinx Spartan-3A FPGA streaming to a DM6467 DVEVM based on DaVinci technology. Nuvation is demonstrating McVFE at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC Silicon Valley), and ISC-West, with full release scheduled for Q2 '08.

Nuvation is also unveiling its new Scalable Video Platform (SVP) reference design, an advanced video development platform for OEMs working with arrays of TI DaVinci DSPs and/or DSP-FPGA co-processing architectures. Nuvation's SVP features four (4) TI TMS320DM6467 DaVinci digital media processors, a TMS320DM648 DaVinci digital media processor, an expandable Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGA socket, and other advanced video functionality. SVP will be demonstrated running a concurrent HD MPEG-2 decode and MPEG-2 to H.264 transcode at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC Silicon Valley), and ISC-West, with full release scheduled for Q2 '08.

Reference designs can be licensed by OEMs for their in-house engineering departments to gain a head-start on product development. As applicable to the design, Nuvation licensee packages can include engineering specification documents, DSP and MCU executables and firmware source code, device drivers, FPGA netlists and source code, schematics, layout databases, gerbers, bills of material, mechanical CAD files, test utilities, manufacturing diagrams, and other design source files.

Engineering evaluation units are available for purchase from Nuvation for OEMs to test applications and to validate design approaches. Nuvation is also recognized as a leading Electronics Design Services firm for custom product development.

Nuvation's IP Camera mini, IP Camera PoE, and Intelligent Video Server reference designs are available for purchase and license today. McVFE and SVP are being demonstrated at ESC Silicon Valley and ISC-West, and will release in Q2 '08. Contact sales@nuvation.com for more information.


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