The Euresys Picolo boards are top-quality video acquisition boards compatible with standard PAL or NTSC cameras. They are dedicated to high-end applications in the fields of video surveillance and security, or entry-level applications in the field of machine vision such as quality control and production monitoring. These boards faithfully digitize the video signal provided, offering perfect image fidelity to make the most of the data provided by a camera.

A fully digital technique is used to synchronize the digitizer operation on the incoming video signal. This ensures a stable and robust operation despite the varying video conditions. The Euresys video capture boards robustly support poor video signals issued by a low-end VCR. When using high-quality video surveillance cameras, the acquisition performance is exemplary, as demonstrated by a jitter figure in the nanosecond range.

Before storing the acquired image into the destination memory buffer, a pixel format conversion takes place in real-time. Numerous color or monochrome formats are available such as packed RGB32, RGB24, RGB16, RGB15, YCrCb 4:2:2, YCrCb 4:1:1, Y8 or such as planar YCrCb 4:2:2, YCrCb 4:1:1, YCrCb 4:2:0, YCrCb 4:1:0, YCbCr 4:2:0, YCbCr 4:1:0.
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All Euresys boards are PCI bus mastering agents that directly store the acquired images into the PC physical memory without CPU involvement. As a unique feature, the Euresys capture boards automatically recover the scatter-gather virtual memory mapping to present the data as a regular bitmap image in a user allocated memory buffer.

PICOLO Alert boards & PICOLO Diligent boards, a natural match with the DirectShow API