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ViCAM^®III Digital Imaging Engine

Product Overview
ViCAM^®III is an advanced programmable digital imaging engine on a chip, ideally suited for any digital imaging product that processes still images, video and audio. In addition to superior quality and features, the ViCAM^®III offers competitive advantages by incorporating numerous functions on a single chip. The flexible design capability allows for multiple product developments all with a single core, reducing both time to market and product cost, while maintaining the highest quality with extensive customer value added capabilities.

Advanced Features & Capabilities
The ViCAM^®III features provide advanced functions from basic cameras to the most advanced embedded imaging system designs you can imagine: 

• Support for CCD and CMOS image sensors with RGB or CMYG color filters

• Supports up to 16 mega pixel resolution sensors

• Digital video I/O via composite video encoder/decoder chips

• Digital Video output port connects directly to off-the-shelf MPEG encoders

• Powerful and Programmable RISC micro-processor

• On-chip multi end-point USB Controller

• On-chip Audio Codec Inteface

• Hardware based standard JPEG and Motion JPEG compression/decompression engine

• Real time text overlay

• Real time graphic overlay

• Real time sensor bad pixel correction

• Direct connection to Compact Flash, SmartMedia and IDE Hard Disk Drive storage devices

• Full file system support for FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 formats

• Temporal Noise filtering

• Fast and Flexible Hardware/Firmware based AGC, AWB, Black Level Control, Color saturation, Sharpness, Contrast and much more...

• Multiple user definable windows for Motion Detection

• Multiple user definable windows for Auto Focus

• On chip multi-endpoint USB 1.1 controller capable of 30fps at VGA resolution (using MJEPG compression)

• Via Processor expansion port connection to addition cababilities such as Firewire 1394, USB2.0, Ethernet, etc...

• Hardware based digital pan and zoom provide for area of interest read-out

• The highly expandable architecture offers support for all related hardware such as pan, tilt, zoom, electronic iris, flash, auto focus, audio, LCD display, memory storage hardware and more

• On chip UART with speeds more than a mega bit

• ViCAM^®III offers advanced power management to reduce power consumption for portable applications

Customer Proven Applications

The ViCAM^®III is ideally suited for any digital imaging peripheral or embedded system level application. Here are a few customer proven solutions:

• Vivotek - Highest quality IP Cameras for security with MPEG compression with market leading advanced features.

• Digi International Inc. - USB cameras for security, POS and environmental monitoring.

• APC - Netbotz - Security and Monitoring management appliances

• RECONYX - Remote standalone surveillance with DVR capabilities

• RF System Lab - Dental and Security imaging solutions.

• Spectec - PDA/SmartPhone SDIO Digital Cameras & Video Out adapters.

• Video Associates Labs - High quality interactive video related products.

• Predator TrailCAMs - Game & surveillance with DVR capabilities

Rapid Time to Market Goals, No Problem

For rapid time to market, we have many proven reference designs to meet your requirements and imagination.. 

Product Specifications

Product Data Sheet Brief
Click here for a product data sheet in PDF Format. 

Product Specification Document
Click here for a detailed specification document in PDF Format. 

Please contact us for further product details and documentation.

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