Design of a secure, intelligent, and reconfigurable Web cam using a C based system design flow

Author

Verkest, Diederik ; Desmet, Dirk ; Avasare, Prabhat ; Coene, Paul ; Decneut, Stijn ; Hendrickx, Filip ; Marescaux, Théodore ; Mignolet, Jean-Yves ; Pasko, Robert ; Schaumont, Patrick

Author_Institution

IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

4-7 Nov. 2001

Firstpage

463

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a reconfigurable Internet camera, Cam-E-leon, combining reconfigurable hardware and embedded software. The software is based on the /spl mu/Clinux operating system. The network appliance implements a secure VPN (virtual private network) with 3DES encryption and Internet camera server (including JPEG compression). The appliance´s hardware can be reconfigured at run-time by the client, thus allowing us to switch between several available image manipulation functions. This paper focuses on the design process used to implement the appliance starting from a high-level executable specification.

Keywords

C language; Internet; client-server systems; cryptography; data compression; embedded systems; image processing equipment; network operating systems; reconfigurable architectures; video cameras; /spl mu/Clinux operating system; 3DES encryption; C language; Cam-E-Leon; Internet camera server; JPEG compression; client server system; embedded software; high-level executable specification; image manipulation; reconfigurable hardware; secure VPN; secure intelligent Web cam; system design flow; virtual private network; Cameras; Cryptography; Embedded software; Hardware; Home appliances; IP networks; Internet; Operating systems; Switches; Virtual private networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 2001. Conference Record of the Thirty-Fifth Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA, USA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7147-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.2001.986969

Filename

986969