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AMP and Advanced Micro Peripherals are the trading names for Advanced Micro Peripherals Inc. and Advanced Micro Peripherals Ltd. 

Disclaimer 

This document contains information on a new product. Specifications and information herein are subject to change without notice. 
AMP reserves the right to make changes to any products herein to improve functioning and design. Although the information in this 
document has been carefully reviewed and is believed to be reliable, AMP does not assume any liability arising out of the application 
or use of any product or circuit described herein. Nothing in this document is to be taken as a license to operate under or a 
recommendation to infringe any patents. 
AMP does not recommend the use of any of its products in life support applications wherein a failure or malfunction of the product 
may directly threaten life or injury. The user of AMP products in life support applications assumes all risk of such use and indemnifies 
AMP against all damages. All information contained in this document is proprietary to AMP and may not be reproduced or disclosed 
to any third parties without the written consent of AMP. The circuit design, EPLD programs and artworks are copyright AMP 2008. 
The information contained in this document has been carefully checked and is believed to be reliable. However, Advanced Micro 
Peripherals Ltd (AMP) makes no guarantee or warranty concerning the accuracy of said information and shall not be responsible for 
any loss or damage of whatever nature resulting from the use of, or reliance upon, it. AMP does not guarantee that the use of any 
information herein will not infringe upon the patent, trademark, copyright, or other rights of third parties, and no patent or other 
license is implied hereby 
AMP reserves the right to make changes in the products or specifications, or both, presented in this document at any time and 
without notice.  

Warranty 

This product is supplied with a 1 year limited warranty. The product warranty covers failure of any AMP manufactured product 
caused by manufacturing defects. AMP will make all reasonable effort to repair the product or replace it with an identical variant. 
AMP reserves the right to replace the returned product with an alternative variant or an equivalent fit, form and functional product.  

Trademarks 

Tiny486, Tiny486, Tiny586DX, Tiny786LP, Mobile786EBX, Tiny886, TinyLX, VAC104, VAC104plus, The Embedded Video Experts are 
trademarks of Advanced Micro Peripherals.  

All other trademarks recognized

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Revision History 

Document version 

Date 

Comments 

Approved 

A.00 

5

th

 March 2013 

Initial release – based on Rev A.00 PCB 

SJC 

 

 

Advanced Micro Peripherals 

operates a company-wide 

quality management system, 

which has been certified by 

QMS International plc as 

compliant with ISO9001:2000

 

Summary of Contents for AVC8000nano

Page 1: ...HARDWARE REFERENCE MANUAL AVC8000nano 8xD1 Video Frame Grabber Document version A 00 ...

Page 2: ...lly checked and is believed to be reliable However Advanced Micro Peripherals Ltd AMP makes no guarantee or warranty concerning the accuracy of said information and shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of whatever nature resulting from the use of or reliance upon it AMP does not guarantee that the use of any information herein will not infringe upon the patent trademark copyright or oth...

Page 3: ...o Peripherals Document version A 00 3 Contents 1 Introduction 4 Features 5 Technical specification 7 Functional summary 8 Ordering information 9 2 Installation 10 System requirements 10 Jumpers and Connectors 11 A Contacting AMP 13 ...

Page 4: ...00nano allows each of the 8 video channels to be captured at full D1 size all at full frame rate The video can be scaled cropped and positioned under software control The captured video data can be streamed continuously to system memory or disk for either immediate local display or further processing The capture engine of the AVC8000nano features hardware color space conversion to present the capt...

Page 5: ...ture to system memory or overlay to system VGA screen 8 Live NTSC PAL video inputs 8 x D1 size capture at full frame rate Arbitrary video window sizing cropping and scaling Efficient PCI DMA Cycle operation Low power operation Windows DirectShow DirectDraw operation Linux Video4Linux2 support Single 3 3V operation ...

Page 6: ...1 Introduction AVC8000nano 2013 Advanced Micro Peripherals Document version A 00 1 6 AVC8000nano at a glance Mini PCI Express bus Video input connectors ...

Page 7: ...o 127 steps Software adjustable sharpness gamma and noise suppression Video Overlay Video Overlay to host system VGA buffer Flexible arrangement of overlay windows Video capture to system memory buffer Supported Capture Formats RGB555 RGB565 YCbCr 4 2 2 YCbCr 4 1 1 Software Drivers for Windows XP Windows 7 and Linux Sample video overlay and capture applications supplied with C C source code Window...

Page 8: ...coming video signal is NTSC or PAL and generates the correct timing output signals Each video channel is first decoded to chrominance and luminance signals and then digitized by high speed analog to digital A2D converters Real time Live Video Overlay Digital video data streams are routed across the PCI Express bus to the display buffer of the host CPU for overlaying on the VGA Screen The Overlay W...

Page 9: ...contain electrostatic components that are susceptible to permanent damage from electrostatic discharge static electricity To prevent electrostatic discharge the boards are supplied in anti static packaging When handling a board observe the following anti static precautions to alleviate risk of damage Remove the board s from the packaging only when you are working on an anti static earthed surface ...

Page 10: ... 2013 Advanced Micro Peripherals Document version A 00 10 2 Installation System requirements PC 104 Express Host computer x86 CPU 512 Mbytes memory or more Mini PCI Express bus Windows XP E or Linux ...

Page 11: ...e U FL Connectors for connecting video sources to the AVC8000nano U FL Signal CX1 Channel 1 video input CX2 Channel 2 video input CX3 Channel 3 video input CX4 Channel 4 video input CX5 Channel 5 video input CX6 Channel 6 video input CX7 Channel 7 video input CX8 Channel 8 video input J1 Mini PCI Express bus J1 CX1 CX2 CX3 3 CX4 CX5 CX6 CX7 CX8 ...

Page 12: ... provided on a CD The optional video input cables from Cable AVC8000nano should be plugged into Cx to provide live video input to the AVC8000nano For most recent BIOS and operating system software the AVC8000nano is automatically detected Software driver installation should be done from the supplied CD Further instructions and demo programs for specific operating systems are provided on the driver...

Page 13: ...ripherals Ltd 1 Harrier House Sedgeway Business Park Witchford Cambridge CB6 2HY United Kingdom Tel 44 0 1353 659500 Fax 44 0 1353 659600 E mail sales ampltd com Web www ampltd com Technical support Comprehensive technical information is available on our websites see above If you can t find the information or solution you require AMP has a team of technical support engineers embedded video experts...

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