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DM355 Custom Board Help?

Piyush Agarwal
Prodigy 20 points

Hello everyone,

I am a Computer Engineering student at Rochester Institute of Technology, and I am working on a Senior Design project where we need to capture 2 NTSC video streams, and 2 audio streams, compress using H.264 or MPEG4, then store the data on an SD card. Our goal is to be able to do all of this in an embedded system, the DaVinci DM355 looks like the perfect SoC to do this on, but our goal is to minimize excess hardware if possible. This is one reason that we want to avoid investing in the DVEVM development board (Our budget is also around $500, so the DVM would wipe through that instantly). I was wondering how difficult it would be to come up with a design that had this basic functionality. We do have on campus access to any fabrication tools we might need. If we can successfully implement this design our customer would probably be looking at making 20-30 of these boards in the near future. We have about 5-6 months to work on this project, if anyone could help guide my team we would really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Piyush Agarwal

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    Prodigy 20 points

    Hi Everyone,

    I guess I was a bit hasty with my question :P, I just found out about the leopardboard implementation of the DM355, I think I will need to use two of them ($80 each), but that falls within our groups budget and will be a great prototype board before we actually move to creating our own board. They also have the schematics and pcb layout for their board available. If anyone still has any recommendations or helpful hints for doing the actual MPEG4 encoding or getting H.264 onto the leopardboard that would be extremely useful.

    Thanks,

    Piyush Agarwal