The new reference designs react to the market demands for networked digital video, intelligent monitoring, and high-resolution imaging.

HD IP-Camera Reference Design:

Maxim’s new IP camera reference design is the Mobicam3, which is based on the new MG2580 H.264 video codec system-on-chip (SoC) solution. The new MG2580 offers 720p-resolution HD video with instantaneous still-image capture, multiple secondary camera streams, hardware encryption, electronic pan-tilt-zoom (ePTZ), and exceptionally low power consumption. The new Mobicam3 reference design supports intelligent monitoring based on an analytics package that incorporates motion detection, intelligent object tracking, and an enhanced PC-based monitoring application.

We clearly see the shift to HD resolution driving the transition from analog to IP cameras, but the added features that higher resolutions enable are the real game-changers, stated Chris Day, executive director in the Multimedia Business Unit at Maxim Integrated Products. A single MG2580-based camera can potentially replace several analog cameras, while offering greater video quality, eliminating the need for mechanical PTZ systems, and enabling intelligent monitoring to assist human operators. The reasons to replace analog cameras with intelligent, high-definition IP cameras are very compelling at the price points enabled by this solution.

Multichannel DVR Reference Designs:

Maxim is also launching its range of DVR reference designs. The new DVR reference designs are based on the highly flexible Mobilygen-powered MG3500 video codec SoC. The MG3500 incorporates a multichannel H.264 codec, ARM9 embedded CPU, Ethernet and USB network connectivity, AES/SHA encryption for secure streaming and recording, and HD video output for multichannel monitoring. The reference designs incorporate the following:

An extremely low-cost embedded DVR, based on single MG3500, that can be configured to record four D1 or the sixteen CIF video channels, while offering RTP/UDP network streaming and USB hard disk or SD card storage. This new design comes entirely with a DVR middleware software solution that incorporates a sample graphical user interface.

A sixteen-channel hybrid DVR design that supports the sixteen full D1-resolution recordings, simultaneous network streaming, HD video output, and connectivity for both analog and IP-cameras.

An eight-channel PCIe card design for scalable, PC-based DVR systems: This card design supports de-interlacing and the full D1 resolution, high-profile, H.264 video encoding for very high quality recording, additionally to network streaming and HD video output.

The demonstrations highlighting these new Maxim reference designs will be conducted during ISC West 2009, from April 1 to April 3, 2009, in conference room 2003 of the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.