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Title: Gate Arrays Adjust to Imaging Needs

Author: Williams, Richard Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Advanced Imaging, v19 n1 p22(4) Publication Date: Jan 2004
  ISSN: 1042-0711
  Illustrations: Charts
URL of Publication: http://www.advancedimagingmag.com

Field programmable gate array (FPGA), digital signal processor (DSP), and I/O cards and software are used create variable real-time image processing systems. For instance, with prepared programs for the FPGA module, a CameraLink-enabled area scan camera can interface to the FPGA without a custom connection. The FPGA and the C6000 DSP communicate by sending data through HERON FIFOs at up to 400MBps. The Hunt Engineering ResOurce Node (HERON) range of module cards integrates reconfigurable parameters of FPGA and DSP hardware to provide a self-contained, high performance imaging system on one single interconnecting carrier card. The design allows developers to choose various user-programmable HERON modules and to build a custom real-time programmable image processing system that pinpoints and supports their application needs. Hunt Engineering uses Virtex-II FPGAs on its HERON programmable real-time hardware modules to develop image processing tasks at data rates as high as several hundred MHz. Topics covered include the DSP method, the role of the DSP, dual-processing system configurations, and memory requirements.

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FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) Image Processing

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