Datapath

The Datapath Mosaic-SQ16 is the ultimate video capture card providing superior performance and virtually unrestricted video capture capabilities with a single or mult-screen configuration. Used in conjunction with the iH4-SIP and Vantage4-SIP, video windows can be placed anywhere across the multi-screen system and also arbitarily sized or maximised over the entire wall.

The Mosaic-SQ16 is supplied with two BNC16-Cable and one SIP-Cable.

The Mosaic-SQ16-NC is supplied with no cables.

Mosaic-SQ16

16 channel video capture add-on card for the iH4-SIP or Vantage4-SIP graphics adapters
Interfaces directly to the Vantage4-SIP using Datapath's proprietry 5Gb/s Streams Video bus
Use up to eight Mosaic-SQ16 cards to provide a maximum of 128 video windows
Video windows can be positioned and sized anywhere on the multi-screen desktop
16 high quality video decoders and video down scalers
On board 32 x 16 video matrix switch

SIP Digital Stream Bus

The Datapath SIP video bus operates at 5Gb/s and is used to broadcast the captured video to the graphics adapters. Each graphics adapter has four video overlay processors, one per display channel. The overlay processors select the required video channel from the SIP video stream, crops and scales the video window onto the output channel. Each overlay processor has 16 scalers and cropping units allowing up to 16 video windows to be positioned on each display output. (Maximum 64 windows per graphics adapter)

Specification

Card Format	32bit 66Mhz PCI adapter
Card Size	105mm x 312mm Full size
Max No of capture channels	16
Max capture resolution per channel	720 x 288
Supported video formats	NTSC. PAL, SECAM and S-video
Inputs per window	16 composite or 16 S-video
Video window update rate	Real time 25/30 frames per sec (PAL/NTSC)
Max current at 3.3V	2.10A
Max current at 12V	1.40A
Max power	23.73 Watts
Operating temperature	0 to 35 Deg C ambient
Storage temperature	-20 to +70 Deg C
Relative humidity	5% to 90% non-condensing