Scalability

Scalability key to viability

Software capability determines product application and scale. Aside from the basic client software bundled with the units, some large and midsize companies also offer software development kits or SDKs. Certain designs even provide Wiegand for intercom with access control.Software compatibility, however, restricts product variety. With no official industry standard to solve equipment or platform mismatches, makers are limited to only a few available types of software and hardware.

Most DVS models from China are based on RISC CPU (ARM9) + ASIC or RISC CPU + DSP architecture, which is similar to embedded DVRs. DSP is mostly adopted in high-end products because of its flexibility. ASIC, which has lower cost and a shorter manufacturing period, is mostly used in low-end and midrange models.

The commonly utilized DSP solutions are TI’s DM64x, NXP’s PNX-1500 and 1700, ADI’s Blackfin BF53x and Equator’s BSP-15. ASIC solutions are sourced from HiSilicon, Faraday, Softlogic, Vweb and Nextchip. Of these, HiSilicon’s Hi3510 is widely adopted. Makers said it provides complete technology support at lower cost.

Adoption of SoC is also rapidly expanding, with some suppliers of ASIC and DSP solutions already promoting SoCs, such as HiSilicon’s Hi3510 and Hi3511, TI’s DaVinci platform and NXP’s PNX8550 and PNX8950.

One  SOC is SOLOs 6010

Softlogic has been developing security chips since 2002 and it has been developing all ASIC IP, embedded software for embedded system; DDK driver for PC based DVR and the hardware of reference boards.

SOLO6010the newest announced chip in Jan. 2007. SOLO6010 will be a main solution for the most security systems with 16channel video multiplexer, quadruple speed D1 MPEG4 video CODEC and quadruple speed D1 motion JPEG encoder. Application such as 4/8(9)/16 channel DVR/ NVS/PCI card can be developed easily, and different performance and cost effective solution with SOLO6010 platform.