LEADVILLE, Colo. -- Legends will be created and limits will be tested on August 20 as nearly 1,000 runners embark upon one of the country’s most grueling ultra-distance races in history, the Leadville Trail 100 Run. Entering its 29th year, the event will expose runners to the rugged Colorado Rockies as they attempt to finish the race in 30 hours or less.
Arria is a registered trademark of Altera Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.Image Available: http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/frame_mw?attachid=1700145CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- GE Intelligent Platforms today announced the daq8580 rugged streaming network appliance at AUVSI (Washington DC, August 16 – 19). Designed in response to the growing requirement for unmanned vehicles to capture, process and transmit increasing quantities of video information at increasing resolutions, the daq8580 is a complete, standalone, application-ready solution that delivers flexibility, high performance and excellent cost-effectiveness. The daq8580 also extends still further GE’s growing range of COTS Rugged Systems (CRS) that are designed to provide ready-to-run solutions that minimize both NRE (Non Recurring Engineering) expense and time to market.The daq8580 can acquire two parallel streams of HD (1,920 x 1,080) at 30 frames/second or up to four channels of standard definition (SD) video. It can also support DVI or VGA modes up to 2,048 X 2,048 pixels. It then processes these streams using an Altera Arria® II GX FPGA combined with Texas Instruments media processors. The video streams are encoded to the H.264 industry standard prior to transmission, ensuring the optimum trade-off between image quality and required bandwidthBeginning and ending in the heart of Leadville, Colo., located 100 miles west of Denver, participants from 45 states and 10 countries will race on a demanding 103-mile out-and-back course with descents ranging from 9,200 feet to 12,612 feet.
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