FAQs, LKFs (Little Know Facts) and Reference Information of the OOTF Project Team

 

 

 

 

 

 

1394 Firewire

1394 Trade Organization

1394 IIDC Camera Specification, (Version 1.2), (Version 1.3)

 

Getting Started with 1394 IIDC Cameras

Windows

DirectShow vs. Vendor APIs

Linux (libdc1394, video1394, ieee1394, ohci1394)

libdc1394 (for support of IIDC Digital Camera spec)

Apple

 

1394a 32-bit PCI Interface Cards

Unibrain FireBoard 400-OHCI V3.0 (Blue pcb) – no longer sold

3.3/5.0 PCI

TI Chipset TSB41AB3 & TSB12LV26

Three 6-pin ports, and +12VDC plug

ADS Technologies Pyro 1394DV

5V PCI

TI Chipset TSB41AB3 & TSB12LV26

Two 6-pin ports, and +12VDC plug

Buslink PCIFW   (FWPC13P)

3.3/5.0 PCI

Lucent/Agere Chip FW323-05

Three 6-pin ports, No ext. power.

Unibrain Fireboard-Red

5V PCI

VIA Chip VT6306

Three 6-pin ports, and +12VDC plug

 

Cameras and Lenses

1394 IIDC Cameras

IEEE 1394 Digital Camera List by Damien Douxchamps

Point Grey

Sony DFW-V500, VL500, XCD900

 

Camera Trigger Server

 

FAQs

CCD Image Format Size and FOV, Kogaku reference

IR Filters in Color Camera

 

Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) Cameras

Sony SNC-RZ30N

Canon VB-C10

 

Lenses/Optics/Filters

C vs. CS-Mount

Threads are identical on these mounts: 1" diameter x 32 threads per inch. C-Mount uses 17.52 mm flange back distance; CS-Mount uses 12.5 mm. CS-Mount cameras can be converted to C mount by using a 5mm spacer element; however, CS-Mount lenses cannot be used with C-Mount cameras.

Coastal Optical Systems (custom solutions)

Cosmicar/Pentax

Computar/Chugai/CBCAmerica

Fujinon

Hoya (filters)

Intor (thin film optics, filters)

Navitar/Buhl (projector lenses)

Nikon

Rainbow

Sunex (miniature CMOS/CCD lenses & filters & custom solutions)

Sunex, Inc., Optics-Online

Tamron USA

Universe Kogaku America

 

Sensors – CCD and CMOS

Sony Semiconductors

 

Clusters – PC

3DMC Cluster and its Additional Documentation(password protected access)

Lookout Cluster (password protected access)

PxFx Cluster (password protected access)

 

CVS (Concurrent Versions System) Revision Control

Fogel’s CVS Site

Home

CVS Manual

CVS FAQ

CVS Documentation

 

GPS

Garmin 16 Quick Start Guide
Garmin GPS 16/17 Technical Spec Manual

 

Hardware Forums

AnandTech

ExtremeTech

Tom’s Hardware Guide

Projector Central

Adrian’s RojakPot (Graphic Card Comparison Charts)

 

HiBall Wide Area Tracker

CIB-Strip Cable (RJ-45 – RJ-45)  Pin 1-1, 2-2, 3-6, 4-4, 5-5, 6-3, 7-7, 8-8

 

Intel

Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP)

 

I/O Interfaces

I2C – The I2C interface is optimized for hardwire simplicity. Parallel address and data buses inherent in conventional systems are replaced by a serial protocol that transmits both address and bidirectional data over a two-wire bus, serial data (SDA) and serial clock (SCL).

I2C Bus Specification, V2.1 Jan 2000

I2C Manual

Philips Semiconductor’s I2C Webpage

I2C PCI Adapter - Calibre UK  (we have a couple of these)

 

RS-232 Serial

Spec &  Pinout

Digi International Networked Serial Port Server

 

USB

USB 1.1 12Mbps

USB 2.0 480Mbps

 

Parallel Port

ParPort dll for Windows 2000/XP from Zeecube

Install Kit and License (Sept 2001) are on our SnapServer

 

PCI Bus Specs

PCI Technology Overview

PCI-X (Express) Overview

 

PCI 32-bit,33/66Mhz

PCI 64-bit, 33/66Mhz

PCI-X66     528MB/sec

PCI-X133   1.06GB/sec

PCI-X266   2.1GB/sec

PCI-X533   4.3GB/sec

PCI Express x1  500MB/sec

PCI Express x4  2.0 GB/sec

PCI Express x8 4.0 GB/sec

PCI Express x16 8GB/sec

AGP-8x 2GB/sec

 

Image Formats

pbm – binary images, ASCII

pgm – gray images, ASCII

ppm – color images, ASCII

png – portable network graphics (usually lossless compressed)

pnm -  abstraction of pbm, pgm and ppm formats (gray, color, binary, ascii & binary)

 

LaTex

Windows Option: WinEdt and MikTex

 

There are several resources available on the Web to help with LaTex syntax.

Gavin Maltby’s “An Introduction to TEX and friends”

 

Our research group also has a copy of Goossens’ “The Latex Companion”.

 

Libraries, Digital

UNC Libraries

ACM Digital Libraries

CiteSeer.IST

IEEE Xplore

Google Scholar

 

ACM Computing Classification System

How Classify Works

 

Linux

The Linux Documentation Project

Linux Central  Man Pages

 

XFree86 Organization

XF86Config files

Man Page

XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO

Also see NVIDID Linux Driver README for info XF86Config Files

 

Lookout Cluster (password protected)

 

MATLAB

 

MPI – Message Passing Interface

MPI Forum

MPI Standard (Argonne Nat Lab website)

MPI Workshop and Supercomputing at PSC (April 2002)

Parallel Programming Techniques (Intro to PSC)

Parallel Computing: Overview

Compiling and Job Submission

Message Passing Basics

Parallel Port Example

Performance Optimization

TotalView Debugger

 

Networking

telenet.unc.edu

Network Maps and Traffic Monitors

Abilene

NCREN (MCNC in RTP)

MAGPI (UPenn et al.)

UNC-CH

TCP Tuning for Windows 2000

 

HP Procurve 2524 Switch  (currently on loan to David Ott)

HP Manuals Online

Management and Configuration Guide

Admin Access

 

HP Procurve 4104gl Gigabit Switch

HP Manuals Online

Management and Configuration Guide

Admin Access

 

NVIDIA

Linux Drivers and READMEs

FX 3000G Frame Lock

Frame Lock Users Guide, V 1.0 Preliminary C

Notes from conversation with Ian Williams

 

OpenCV (Intel)

Reference Manual, Version 1, Dec 2000

 

OpenSceneGraph

Quick Start Guide

Reference Manual, V2.2

 

Paper Sizes

ANSI sizes (A,B,C, …)

Architectural sizes (ARCH1, …)

ISO sizes (A0, A2, …)

 

Projectors

Projector Central’s Projector Search Engine

DLP Info

TI White Papers

DMD Discovery Kit

Productivity Systems Inc

Brilliant Technologies

ELCAN Optical Technologies

 

Projection Design F1

User’s Guide

RS232 Command Set

 

PxFx Cluster (password protected)

 

Spectroradiometer, (PhotoResearch PR-715)

 

Software Development Tools

Profilers

Glowcode

IBM-Rational PurifyPlus (available to us via the IBM Scholars Program – see Herman)

 

Source Forge Projects

Chromium

Delta3D Open Source Engine

DevIL – a cross-platform image library

IEEE 1394 for Linux

OpenCV

SoftGenLock

 

Stereo Display

Stereoscopic Display & Applications Conference

Foundations of Stereoscopic Cinema by Lenny Lipton

 

StereoGraphics Corp

StereoGraphics Developers’ Handbook (66 pages)

 

 

Video

VESA

VGA Timing Standards

GTF Generalized Timing Formula

EDID / DDC

Raylar’s Phoenix EDID Designer Tool

Viewsonic EDID/DDC Test Program

 

DPMS – Display Power Management Signaling

DDWG-Digital Display Working Group

DVI Specification, Version 1.0

Video Connector Types

VGA pinouts

DVI pinouts

Digital video pundit, Charles Poynton.

Charles has published a couple of good textbooks and has several useful documents on his website including one on Gamma and Color.

Last edited by Herman Towles (August 2008)