ISV(4) | Device Drivers Manual | ISV(4)

# NAME

`isv` —
IDEC Supervision/16 image capture board

# SYNOPSIS

`isv0 at isa? port 0x2f0`
`isv0 at isa? port 0x2e0`
`isv0 at isa? port 0x3f0`
`isv0 at isa? port 0x3e0`

# DESCRIPTION

`isv` is a driver for the IDEC Supervision/16, an image capture board that plugs into a 16-bit ISA bus. The IDEC Supervision/16 digitizes an NTSC television signal, storing a 512 x 480-pixel, 8-bit grayscale image in its 256kB dynamic RAM array every 1/30th of a second. The host reads frames from the DRAM using 122881 16-bit I/O reads. Reading frames from the Supervision/16 is quite slow: after the host reads a 16-bit word from the DRAM, the Supervision/16 state machine takes approximately 0.5 microseconds to get ready for the next read. Theoretically, a frame rate of approximately 10 frames per second is possible. `isv` achieves a frame rate of approximately 6 frames per second.

# SEE ALSO

Programming the Supervision/16 Image Capture Board, IDEC, circa 1991.

# HISTORY

The `isv` device first appeared in NetBSD 5.0.

# AUTHORS

The `isv` driver was written by David Young <dyoung@NetBSD.org>.

# BUGS

Synchronizing with the hardware and reading frames from it is very CPU-intensive.

`isv` will not detect the capture board if it is not attached to an active video source. To force NetBSD to detect the capture board at any time, re-scan the ISA bus using, e.g., `drvctl` `-r` isa0.

April 1, 2008 | NetBSD 9.5