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LETCHWORTH, UK - August 19, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the PMC-281, its first MPEG4/H.264 high-definition video capture/compression PMC interface card. The rugged conduction-cooled PMC-281 joins the recently introduced XMC-280 JPEG2000 compression module, and the earlier Orion PMC, to expand the company’s embedded COTS video compression capabilities. Designed for demanding military applications, the PMC-281 facilitates the design of video distribution and/or recording in applications such as military systems that provide situational awareness.
“The PMC-281 provides hardware accelerated MPEG4/H.264 compression using low-power ASIC technology,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “We can now offer our customers the choice between MPEG4 and JPEG20000, the two major compression algorithms for HD video. With our expanded video capture/compression family our customers can tailor cost, power consumption and compression specifications to the needs of their applications.”
The PMC-281 supports two channels of MPEG4/H.264 video compression at resolutions up to 1920x1080 facilitating the distribution of multiple channels of high-definition video over standard Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networks and storage on modestly-sized media.
An ideal solution for a wide variety of system requirements, the PMC-281 joins the XMC-280 to provide system designers with a greater range of video configuration choices, and to easily and quickly enable them to integrate open standards-based video compression technology into their COTS system. Its industry-standard PMC form-factor enables it it to be rapidly deployed in a variety of system types such as PCs, rack-mount systems and conduction-cooled enclosures.
PMC-281 Key Features:
- Two video Inputs (each can be Digital DVI, Analog RGB or PAL/NTSC composite)
- Support for one channel of 1080p60 or two channels of resolutions up to and including 1080i60
- Two DVI-D digital outputs
- 33MHz, 32-bit PCI transmission of captured/compressed video
- Compression and decompression using H.264 baseline and main profile up to L4.2 (MPEG4 Part 10/AVC)
- Support for both 4:2:2 YUV video coding
- Fully integrated into Curtiss-Wright Controls’ Video Distribution (VDS) and Sentric2 digital recording solutions
- Available at Curtiss-Wright Controls Level 0 and conduction-cooled Level 200 environmental specifications
Software Support
The PMC-281 is supported on Intel® x86 and Power® Architecture hosts under Windows, Linux, and VxWorks operating environments
Availability is Q4 2009. Click here to learn more about the PMC-281.
Sales inquiries: Please forward all Sales and reader service inquiries to Jerri-Lynne Charbonneau, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Tel: (613) 254-5112; Fax: (613) 599-7777; e-mail: sales@cwcembedded.com.
For editorial information regarding Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing products or services, contact John Wranovics, Director of Public Relations, Curtiss-Wright, Tel: (925) 640-6402; email. jwranovics@curtisswright.com.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single source for embedded solutions, ranging from Processing, Subsystems, Data Communication, DSP, and Video & Graphics to the most advanced board level components and fully integrated custom systems. The Embedded Computing group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Curtiss-Wright Controls is the motion control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visit http://www.cwcontrols.com/.
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