Features
- Ultra compact 4.8 x 2.5 cm and lightweight 6.2 g
- Captures up to 1920 x 1200 video at 30 fps
- Captures JPEG snapshots up to 4096 x 3104
- USB port supports device and host modes
- Includes 100Mb Ethernet, serial COM, I²C and 6 GPIOs
- SD Card interface
SENSORAY's 2960 "Dragon" is a compact, lightweight board that serves as a foundational building block in HD/SD video and audio processing systems. Packed into its tiny footprint is a powerful audio/video processing engine with a controller and stream router, SD card interface, six GPIOs, and USB (device or host mode), Ethernet, serial COM, and I²C communication interfaces. It has one input and one output for HD/SD digital video, a stereo digital audio input and output, and a composite NTSC/PAL output.
2960 block diagram
Custom solutions without the NRE
When combined with our proven IP blocks, the Dragon's high performance and versatile architecture enables us to quickly create complex A/V systems. This allows us to deliver fully custom solutions with low or no design fees — even to OEMs with modest volume requirements.
Development process
Based on your requirements, Sensoray will design firmware for the Dragon that implements your desired functionality and a carrier board with the connectors and circuitry you specify and deliver the integrated solution with a flexible API. For higher volumes, Sensoray can integrate the Dragon's circuitry into a custom single board solution to further reduce size, weight and cost. A wide range of functions are available, which can be mixed and matched to provide the exact feature set you need. Popular functions include:
A/V processor functions
- Real time text and graphics overlay
- Low latency H.264 and JPEG video compression up to 1920x1200p30
- High resolution JPEG snapshots
- MP4, AVI, transport stream formatting
- Dual asymmetric output streams
- AAC and G.711 audio compression
- Image stabilization
- Frame rate decimation
- Interlacing/deinterlacing
- Video scaling, mirroring and rotation
System controller functions
- IP stream server
- File server with SD card / USB flash storage
- HTTP server
- Serial COM bridge
- Remote and locally controlled GPIOs
- Camera control server
Applications
The 2960 Dragon is more than just a powerful A/V building block used by our customers. As the following examples show, it can also be found at the core of some of Sensoray's most popular standard products. Just to name a few.
- Miniature HD camera with IP stream server and POE
- Embeddable DVR
- HD IP Video Server, SDI or DVI compatible
- HD overlay engine
- HD video server with DVR and Wi-Fi
- HD video + audio server with PoE
- UAV video server with camera control
- Asymmetric dual stream HD video/audio capture
- Pipeline inspection HD video capture and ROV controller bridge