tjt@twitch.UUCP ( T.J.Thompson) (10/08/85)
Enclosed is a summary of the 2 messages I got in response to my recent query about hardware for capturing and processing video on a VAX under UNIX. ..Tim Thompson...AT&T Bell Labs/Holmdel/NJ...ihnp4!twitch!tjt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- At Waterloo we use the IKONAS RDS-3000 (now made by Adage). It works well for graphical output and also performs a real time frame grabber function. It allows you to plug in bipolar micro-programmable processors to do graphical I/O, and they support a 68k board. We have ported Harmony (a real time message passing O/S) to the box, as well as writing a C compiler for the bit slice. It's a nice development environment but it might be a little pricy for your needs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Datacube Inc. (4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960 617-535-6644) manufactures a variety of frame grabbers and image processing hardware. Included is a family of boards that can be configured as a subsystem on the Q-bus or Multibus as a 768 x 512 x 24 bit frame store, 8 bit real time digitization, real time ALU type operations on 8 or 16 bit data. You can connect it to a VAX with either a Unibus to Q-bus adapter or a DR-11W port (this has just been developed). They also make a family of VME bus based ultra powerful low cost image processing boards. --------------------------------------------------------------------------