Embedded Excellence

What is ccHDtv? Closed Circuit HD TV (ccHDtv) is a newly developed solution for transmitting full HD digital video in a surveillance system. The core concept of ccHDtv is to deliver high definition video using digital TV (DTV) transmission. With ccHDtv, high definition digital video can be transmitted easily over coaxial cables, twisted pairs, or simply over the air. Multiple 1080p30 and 1080p60 video streams can be easily transmitted using ccHDtv over a single 3C2V/RG59 cable up to a length of 500 meters without any repeater. ...

Our company update the home page to a brand new picture. There is a name ‘Liberated’ to describe the new networking technology we implemented. According to the dictionary, I’m most likely the description “free from traditional social restraints” because we are trying to make the fundamental change in different area that we enter. It’s an interesting journey to me. Although it’s not 100% correct, I still want to record what I saw here. I plot the company’s product map simply by personal thinking as follow from the webpage.

My colleague did some experiments on gstreamer alsasrc and osssrc plugins and he found that alsasrc consume lots of cpu resource (around 16% on the chip we use). He asked me why the test tool that provided from chip vendor is quite efficient (around 1~2%). It was a big gap to me and I started to find why is that. After hours checking, I found that the plugin may cause a busy wait in a while loop when the parameters set to non-blocking mode. I do a simple code modification and execute again but the cpu rate just lower to 12%. I’m a little frustrated about it but still had some enhancement. ...