The hearth of this PC/104 board is the Analog ADV202 JPEG2000 codec. The board has other features suited for monitoring application such a hardware motion detector. For more information have a look at hardware description.
The JPEG2000 image format is well suited for monitoring applications since every single image is codified alone. The quality of the image is usually better than plain JPEG for a given image size. Another great advantage is that the user can fix the bit rate of the resulting data stream. On the other hand JPEG2000 encoding/decoding is quite a computationally intensive task so hardware implementations can provide great benefits in practical applications.
The current version of the driver is 2.2: e0904-2.2.tar.gz. A manual is available
both online and in the source archive. The
software is released under the GPL v.2, the complete license is in the
tarball. Feel free to contact me for any information about the
driver. New version of the driver will be published at https://www.evolware.org/j2k/.
A Windows CE driver is also available for the E0904. Please contact
the Eurotech's or Parvus' sales department.
I wish to thank Eurotech for
letting me work on this interesting project. And especially Luca
Calligaris, Stefano Zanolin and Mauro Barella for their support. I
wish to thank Christine Bako from Analog Devices for kindly an
promptly answering my questions.