Overview

The I-Box is a hardware platform designed for digital video surveillance applications. It was designed, and prototypes were manufactured (including BGA IC placement) in-house at ERTOS. The design is generally based on the PLEB 2 platform. Despite having been designed for video surveillance, the components in the iBox form the basis of a typical embedded system.

Key technical features:

• Intel PXA270 processor running at 624MHz;
• 64MB RAM, 4MB flash memory;
• 10/100 Ethernet;
• 192kHz, 24-bit audio input and output;
• IME6510 MPEG 4 encoder, capable of full D1 resolution;
• analogue video input, readable by both the MPEG encoder and PXA270;
• either overlay generation, or full video output capability;
• low power (<5W with all features enabled);
• other peripherals: CF, USB, LCD, LEDs, alarm interface

The I-Box runs the L4/Iguana operating system. L4/Iguana runs on most embedded platforms that have an MMU, and the PXA270 is well supported. Wombat can be used to provide device drivers, or support for legacy software.