Release of a reference Design Kit for recorder IC by Epson
Seiko Epson made an announcement on release of reference design kit which is equipped with company’s driver IC, the S2S66A30. The kit supports the latest driver functions including an S2S66A30 equipped main board, an analog camera interface board as well as Linux-based driver recorder applications. The driver applications are royalty free source code and are available for download directly from Epson online site, including the source code will result in a significant time reduction in developing a driver recorder. The new kit comes with ARM-equipped driver IC and it connects with analog cameras via a CMOS camera and video decoder equipped interface board. The Linux-based driver recorder application supports functionality such as simultaneous recording from tow cameras, audio recording (with use of microphone), playback of footage on PCs via USB interface , choice of real time recording or event recording (requiring accelerometer) and choice of SD or CF cards for storage of video data. The kit also includes IAR Systems Arm development environment which includes development tools of IAR Embedded Workbench (32KB KickStart Edition) as well as IAR J-Link (JTAG-ICE). The new kit became available on November.
The S2S66A30 is an improved version of company’s earlier image controller S2S65A00. The new S2S66A30 comes with such features as input image correction which has been achieved by real-time image processing plus interlaced-to-progressive scan image conversion that allows the connection with cameras through interlaced scanning. Furthermore, it is capable of replaying recorded images and high speed writing to SD cards. The new S2S66A30 is an ideal image controller for such application as automotive event data/image recorders. The pin-out and software on the new S2S66A30 are compatible with the S2S65A00.
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