Re: Development boards for audio/video product.

Well if your going to develop with Micron CMOS imagers you first need to see if they will give you an NDA. I have done a few Micron designs and getting the NDA was by far the hardest part.

So the way to do this is get the Micron Eval Head board for the imager you pick from Avnet or Digikey or whatever. Once done pick an ADI black Fin eval board. You will note, if you poke around on ADIs web site that they have a daughter board to let the Micron Head Board directly bolt to the Black Fin's PPI port.

I am a fan of BlackFin over TI. FreeScale or other DSPs for this for several reassons.
1) Black Fin has a port called PPI which understands things like lines, rows, black pixels and has a special DMA that makes interfacing to video
a breeze over other DSPs.
2) The price is great
3) There are more tools and support options for the ADI/Micron combo than any others due, in part, to #1 and #2.

You may also want to look at Avnet who has a special eval kit which is based on an 2Mega Pixel Micron Imager (the one wiht built in JPG compression) and an high end dual core - everything and the kitchen sink Black Fin processor. Its a bit more expensive than the other options I mentioned, but it works as is and is about $600.

On 6/11/2007 5:21 AM, The digits of Ali's hands composed the following:
On Jun 9, 11:27 am, Ali <abdulra...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 9, 6:39 am, Hawker



<Hawker{removethispa...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are some nice Black Fin dev boards for this.
The 531 board can do that but is minimal, however it does have a
daughter board that hooks to the Micron CMOS imager
demo boards (is that what you meant by CMOS?)
There is an "everthing and the kitchen sink" black fin board with a dual
core black fin. I have not used it so I can't speak for that one I think
it is a BF56x series part.
Stay away from the BF535 it is a very old board.
On 6/8/2007 3:32 PM, The digits of Ali's hands composed the following:
Any good development boards for putting the input of CMOS ( audiio/
video ) over ethernet link? Thanks for suggestions and pointors;) I'm
happy with average frame rate as far as things are cost effective.
ali
Hawker, thanks for input. but ofcourse i meant micron by CMOS.
Honestly i don't know much about that as i was recommended by a friend
of mine. I heard there is something from TI (Texas Instruments) as
well, any idea about that development board? All i want to do is to
put the stream from web/usb cam to PC ;)

ali

Don't know if this [ http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/tmdxvsk642.html
] is the right thing or not but its way too expensive. I can see lots
of development boards http://www.blackfin.org/developmentboards.php
but honestly don't know how to pick one;) as kinda layman in this
area. Our application will be more or less like video surveillance
system , thanks for suggestions.

ali

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