Imperx VCE-PRO, User Manual

Page 1: ... CONFIDENTIAL PROPRIETARY Page 1 of 44 VCE PROTM User s Manual CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE Copyright 2004 Imperx Inc All rights reserved Any unauthorized use duplication or distribution of this document or any part thereof without the prior written consent of Imperx Corporation is strictly prohibited ...

Page 2: ...Revision History RA01 Feb 04 2004 J Egri Initial Release to PDM system RA02 Feb 11 2004 J Egri Changed Software Suite section Page 2 of 44 ...

Page 3: ...E SUITE 14 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FROM CD 15 SOFTWARE UPGRADE FROM WEB SITE 17 FIRMWARE UPGRADE FROM WEB SITE 19 CHAPTER 4 USING THE VCE PRO 20 RUNNING THE VCE PRO APPLICATION 21 MAIN WINDOW 22 CONTROL PANEL 25 PLAYER CONTROL 35 PLAYER DIALOG 37 CHAPTER 5 ELECTRICAL INTERFACES 38 VIDEO CONNECTOR 39 EXTERNAL TRIGGER CONNECTOR 41 PCMCIA CARDBUS CONNECTOR 43 CHAPTER 6 SPECIFICATIONS 44 Page 3 of 44 ...

Page 4: ... VCE PRO video mating plug 39 Figure 4 VCE PRO External Trigger mating plug 41 Figure 5 External trigger schematic 42 Tables Table 1 Video decoder pixel data 9 Table 2 VCE PRO Image data mapping into memory 9 Table 3 VCE PRO F Connector Pin out 40 Table 4 Cardbus Connector Pin out 43 Page 4 of 44 ...

Page 5: ...Introduction This chapter outlines the key features of the Imperx VCE PRO card Page 5 of 44 ...

Page 6: ...an scale the image size to 100 50 25 or a user defined scaling factor Since the scaling is performed on the card less Cardbus bandwidth is required to transfer the image to host memory VCE PRO is capable of saving images to disk as either BMP JPEG or AVI files Provides an internal triggering capability that can qualify image capture based on time as specified by the user Provides an external trigg...

Page 7: ...face Cardbus compliant with the PC Card Release 8 0 specification This interface provides a single function as defined in the Cardbus specification The design does not support any memory mapped or I O mapped peripherals on card Access to the VCE PRO s SDRAM devices is achieved through DMA operations that move the data from the SDRAM into host memory The host cannot directly access the contents of ...

Page 8: ...Decoder CVBS0 Y0 CVBS1 Y1 C0 CardBus Connector 68 pin Female Y 8 8 3 i2c_SCL i2c_SDA Cr Cb Strobes Clk Configuration EEPROM EPC2 ByteBlaster Programming Header OSC 66Mhz 3V to 2 5V converter SoftStart 32 bit PCI Master Slave Trigger Detector 15 Pin Connector VCE PRO F version C1 Stereo Phono Jacks VCE PRO version OR Figure 1 VCE PRO Block Diagram Page 8 of 44 ...

Page 9: ... d7 d6 d5 d4 d3 d2 d1 d0 Cr Cb pixel2 Y pixel2 Cr Cb pixel1 Y pixel1 Table 2 VCE PRO Image data mapping into memory Pixel Buffering The pixel data formatted by the video capture engine is stored into two on board 4Mx32 SDRAM devices This memory serves as a local store for formatted video pixel data Each SDRAM will buffer a single frame s worth of data supporting a maximum frame size of 8 million p...

Page 10: ... unit is at a remote customer location The programming is accomplished using a JamPlayer utility which runs on the host PC The JamPlayer utility downloads a new FPGA image into the EEPROM via the Cardbus interface The FPGA provides a set of I O pins which are connected to the EEPROM s JTAG interface The JamPlayer utility toggles these I O pins which are mapped into a register in configuration spac...

Page 11: ...ller You can determine which chipset your laptop uses by looking in Control Panel System Hardware Device Manager PCMCIA Adapters These chipsets are recommended because they generally offer better performance in terms of DMA transfer rates TI PCI 1520 TI PCI 4510 These chipsets are discouraged because of their poor DMA performance O2 Micro OZ6912 TI PCI 1225 A computer with at least 256M bytes of R...

Page 12: ...damaged contact your Imperx representative Package contents You should have received the following items The VCE PRO PCMCIA card A phono plug to S Video cable VCE PRO A 15 pin plug to S Video cable VCE PRO F An S Video to RCA cable A CD with the VCE PRO software suite A Quick Start installation guide A User s Manual this document Page 12 of 44 ...

Page 13: ...Hardware Installation Installing the VCE PRO card is as simple as plugging it into an available PCMCIA slot on your computer Page 13 of 44 ...

Page 14: ...00 XP driver info file WDM Streaming DirectX files Vcecbks sys VCE PRO WDM Streaming driver Vcecbks inf VCE PRO WDM Streaming info file Install_ks txt WDM Streaming installation instructions instvcecbks exe WDM Streaming installation program VceAncbKs ax WDM Streaming driver s properties plugin AMCap exe DirectX sample application Note that our VCE PRO application program was created using our SDK...

Page 15: ...tart Run enter CD drive Setup exe and click OK 4 Wait for the InstallShield Wizard screen to appear 5 Follow the on screen instructions The next step is to install the Windows 2000 XP driver software 6 Insert VCE PRO card into a PCMCIA slot 7 If the system prompts you with a New Hardware Found dialog box then 7 1 Left mouse click on Next 7 2 Left mouse click on Search for best driver for your devi...

Page 16: ...existing file appears then left mouse click yes 9 Reboot the computer If you plan on using a DirectX compliant application then install the DirectX driver software as follows 10 Right mouse click on Start 11 Left mouse click on Explore 12 Browse CD and point to the DirectX_Driver folder 13 Run the instvcecbks exe program 14 Reboot the computer Page 16 of 44 ...

Page 17: ... the C WINNT system32 folder for Win2000 6 Right click on folder and then left click on Paste If the message This folder already contains a file named Would you like to replace the existing file appears then left mouse click yes 7 Reboot the computer Use the following steps to install newly released Windows 2000 XP driver software 1 Download and unzip the driver zip file to a folder on your PC we ...

Page 18: ...on Start 2 2 Left mouse click on Settings 2 3 Left mouse click on Control Panel 2 4 Double left mouse click on System 2 5 Left mouse click on Hardware 2 6 Left mouse click on Device Manager 2 7 Left mouse click on symbol of Sound video and game controllers 2 8 Right mouse click on VCEPRO Streaming Device 2 9 Left mouse click on Uninstall 2 10 Left mouse click on OK 2 11 Close all control panel win...

Page 19: ...l Press any key to continue message appears 2 3 Press any key to exit batch file 3 Insert the VCE PRO card into the laptop Note that if your system has two PCMCIA slots then you must insert the card into the slot in which it was placed during the original driver installation 4 If the system prompts you with a New Hardware Found dialog box press Cancel 5 Note DO NOT POWER DOWN OR REMOVE CARD WHILE ...

Page 20: ...Using the VCE PRO This chapter contains information on how to configure and use the VCE PRO card Page 20 of 44 ...

Page 21: ...card and to view record and playback video data received from the analog interfaces The application consists of a main window as well as Control Panel Player Control and Player Dialog windows Launching To launch the VCE PRO application simply double left mouse click on Application the VCEANCB exe icon Note In the remainder of this chapter references to clicking on objects in the GUI refers to the ...

Page 22: ...s a function of the incoming video signal i e NTSC or PAL File Clicking on this item reveals a pull down menu with two options Player and Exit Player This option opens the Player Dialog and Player Control windows Exit Clicking on this option causes the program to terminate Grabber Clicking on this item reveals a pull down menu with a Refresh option and a list of PCMCIA slots populated with VCE PRO...

Page 23: ...em if the video source is an S Video signal and is connected to input 2 Control Panel Clicking on this item reveals a pull down menu with the following options Show panel Selecting this item causes the control panel dialog to appear When the control panel dialog is open the Show panel menu item changes to Hide panel Clicking on Hide panel causes the control panel dialog to close Zoom Reveals a pul...

Page 24: ...o Imperx technical support personnel during a service call Help Clicking on this option causes an interactive point and click Manual style help manual to be displayed The help manual provides a summary description of all GUI controls and fields Page 24 of 44 ...

Page 25: ...settings Brightness Moving the slider up increases brightness causing more white while moving it down decreases brightness causing less white Contrast Moving the slider up increases contrast causing greater differences between dark and light while moving the slider down decreases contrast causing fewer differences between dark and light Hue Moving the slider up increases hue causing an increase in...

Page 26: ...ne scale to another scale automatically updates the display window and image size Selecting Custom causes another dialog box to pop up with fields that allow the user to specify an arbitrary width and height for the image Capture Options Determines how when and where images are recorded to disk Three choices are provided Single Frames Series of Frames and AVI Video Clicking on each option opens a ...

Page 27: ...tomatically overlayed on each image recorded Clicking on Position causes a pull down menu to appear which defines the placement position of the date time text message within the image Available options include Top Left Top Center Top Right Bottom Left Bottom Center and Bottom Right Accept Clicking on this causes the entries made to the various fields to be accepted and then closes the Single Frame...

Page 28: ...d to User can choose a text suffix to be automatically filename appended to the end of the filename selected in Path Filename Every time a recording file is created the filename suffix will automatically be incremented Capture every Allows you to control how often an image is captured Use this feature to take snapshots at regular intervals in order to create a time lapse series of images Page 28 o...

Page 29: ...f time specified This option is mutually exclusive with the Limit number of frame to option Limit number Allows you to limit the duration of the recording by of frames to the number of frames specified This option is mutually exclusive with the Limit capture time to option Text Overlay Same as in Single Frames Accept Same as in Single Frames Cancel Same as in Single Frames Page 29 of 44 ...

Page 30: ...as the Image Format Clicking on this button causes the AVI Video Clip Settings dialog window to open Path Filename Same as in Single Frames Capture Limits the frame rate of the recorded movie Frames per Second Compression Allows you to choose between a variety of compressor implementations and options Clicking on this button causes the Video Compression dialog window to open Page 30 of 44 ...

Page 31: ...nd then closes the Video Compression dialog window Cancel Clicking on this causes the entries made to the various fields to be rejected and then closes the Video Compression dialog window Configure Provides additional configuration options that are specific to the type of compressor chosen About Provides version number information for the chosen compressor Limit number Allows you to limit the dura...

Page 32: ...you want the recording process to be Settings controlled by the state of the external trigger input Path Filename Same as in Single Frames Append to Same as in Series of Frames filename Capture every Same as in Series of Frames Page 32 of 44 ...

Page 33: ...t and continue capturing images until the trigger goes high voltage present Trigger on Start capturing images when the trigger goes rising edge from low voltage absent to high voltage present Trigger on Start capturing images when the trigger goes falling edge from high voltage present to low voltage absent Limit capture Same as in Series of Frames time to Limit number Same as in Series of Frames ...

Page 34: ...Start Stop This button will toggle between Start Capture and Stop Capture Capture every time the user clicks on it Clicking on Start Capture starts the process of recording the images to disk The options set in the Capture Options field determine what how and when actual recording is performed Clicking on Stop Capture causes recording to stop Hide Clicking on this option causes the control panel d...

Page 35: ...en removed from the VCE PRO Instead use Windows Media Player to view AVI movies Image Size Determines the size of the Player Dialog window and the playback image Changing from one scale to another automatically updates the Player Dialog window and image size Path This text field allows you to enter the name of the folder or directory containing the image file s Clicking on the box will cause a Win...

Page 36: ...the previous image file in the list Backwards Play Displays a series of images one after another starting from the currently selected file in the list Step Displays the next image file in the list Forward Fast Displays a series of images one after another in rapid forward order Forward starting from the currently selected file to the last file in the list Stop Halts current playback Page 36 of 44 ...

Page 37: ...een to suit your needs The size of the window and image is determined by the size of the image file selected in the Player Control window and can be scaled using the Image Size option For example if the user selects an image file that was produced by a NTSC camera then the Full frame window size will be 640x480 In this example selecting frame produces a window size of 320x240 and selecting frame p...

Page 38: ...Electrical Interfaces This chapter contains information on the VCE PRO s connectors Page 38 of 44 ...

Page 39: ...s one per video channel The pin out for the mating phono plug is illustrated in Figure 3 Each phone jack provides three signals CVBS Y A composite signal or the luminance component of an S Video signal C A chrominance component of an S Video signal Chassis GND A shield ground signal 2 5mm Stereo Plug C Connects to pin 2 of the Jack CVBS Y Connects to pin 3 of the Jack GND Connects to pin 1 of the ...

Page 40: ...e pins are used for analog video and trigger inputs as indicated in Table 3 Pin Signal 1 ANALOG GND 2 ANALOG GND 3 CVBS0 Y0 4 ANALOG GND 5 ANALOG GND 6 CVBS1 Y1 7 ANALOG GND 8 ANALOG GND 9 C0 10 ANALOG GND 11 C1 12 DIGITAL GND 13 Trigger_In 14 Trigger_In 15 DIGITAL GND Table 3 VCE PRO F Connector Pin out Page 40 of 44 ...

Page 41: ...y If external triggering is enabled the VCE PRO will use the state of the external trigger signal to qualify when to start and optionally end capturing video images to disk The VCE PRO will wait until the trigger condition as specified in the Trigger behavior field of the Trigger Capture Settings dialog has been satisfied before beginning to store video images to the disk It will stop storing vide...

Page 42: ...y isolated from the rest of the VCE Considerations PRO hardware An internal 300 ohm series resistor is used to limit the input current The input signals TRIGGER IN and TRIGGER IN are used to connect to an external trigger source A logic 0 is considered a positive voltage between TRIGGER_IN and TRIGGER_IN of 0v to 1 0v A logic 1 is considered a positive voltage between TRIGGER_IN and TRIGGER_IN of ...

Page 43: ...s1 10 ad12 44 ad13 11 ad14 45 ad15 12 C be1 46 ad16 13 par 47 rfu 14 perr 48 block 15 gnt 49 stop 16 int 50 devsel 17 VCC 51 VCC 18 VPP1 52 VPP2 19 clk 53 trdy 20 irdy 54 frame 21 c be2 55 ad17 22 ad18 56 ad19 23 ad20 57 vs2 24 ad21 58 rst 25 ad22 59 serr 26 ad23 60 req 27 ad24 61 c be3 28 ad25 62 audio 29 ad26 63 stschg 30 ad27 64 ad28 31 ad29 65 ad30 32 rfu 66 ad31 33 clkrun 67 cd2 34 GND 68 GND...

Page 44: ...oltage Imin 5 0mA minimum current Imax 10 0mA maximum current MUST NOT BE EXCEEDED Physical VCE PRO Dimensions PCMCIA Type II 115 6mm 4 55in x 54mm 2 1in x 5mm 2in with a 30mm x 10mm extension VCE PRO F PCMCIA Type II 115 6mm 4 55in x 54mm 2 1in x 5mm 2in Weight 35 grams 1 25 oz Electrical Operating voltage 3 3V 5 Characteristics Operating current 160mA Inrush current 360mA Operating Operating tem...