With the picasso CL high speed digital video acquisition is possible. The picasso CL framegrabbers are plug and play PC-cards for the PCI-bus and provide highresolution image capture for digital video cameras. It enables each standard PCI system to capture and store single images for image processing or full frame display of digital video in a window. The CL models operate as PCI-bus master and transfer images directly to the system memory without impacting the processor.