Re: Vox Technologies EM351 and CF card video capture

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The CF slot on the 5822 is IDE only. It does not do I/O. But grounding
a pin on a CF Flash card you put it into IDE mode. This is what the
slot on the 5822 does and probably on the EM351 also. Check with Vox
to see if it can do IDE only or I/O.

-Bryan Hurley

On 8/7/05, Yair Mahalalel <> wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I intend to build a low cost wearable computer based on an SBC such as
> Advantech's PCM-5822. While looking for one I stumbled across a very
> similar alternative called EM351 by Vox Technologies. It shares the same
> form factor as the 582x's and what seems like the union of their
> features (e.g. 4 COM ports, TV out, dual ethernet).
>=20
> The one thing it doesn't have is a PC/104 extension slot, which would
> have been handy for capturing video (using a PCMCIA adaptor, for
> example). One alternative I can use s to carry a second computer that
> will host a frame grabber and connect the two through the spare ehternet
> port, but that solution seems expensive in power and weight and I'd
> rather avoid it.
>=20
> A better solution might be some clever hack involving EM351's
> CompactFlash socket. CF video capture cards that I've found are
> restricted to QVGA resolution, but how about building a PCMCIA to CF
> card adaptor?
>=20
> >From what I understand the so called 'PCMCIA CF card readers' contain no
> active electronics and simply bridge over the difference in sizes and
> shapes. On the other hand, PCMCIA cards come in a veriety of bus widths
> and speeds, and it might very well be that the CF interface won't be
> able to handle the throughput a PCMCIA frame grabber produces.
>=20
> What do you think? Is this kind of hack feasible?
>=20
> Yair.
>=20
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