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This application is designed to show how several high data rate applications can be handled using VHDL on FPGAs. The system consists of a high-speed camera, processor core, disk drive interface, RAM interface, and serial link to an external PC. The overall system has been chosen to illustrate how to move large amounts of data around quickly and efficiently. The outline of such a test application is shown in the following figure. As can be seen, there are several key aspects involved, but mainly it is about moving large amounts of data around a system quickly, efficiently, and reliably.
The basic system is shown in outline form in Figure 7.1:
The key performance aspect of this system is in the three interfaces:
• Camera to FPGA • FPGA to PC/Hard Disc Drive (HDD)
• FPGA to RAM If we consider the basic camera performance criteria, we have four issues to consider:
• Resolution
• Frame rate
• Color specification
• Clip size
In this example, the resolution is defined as being 640 × 480 pixels, the color mode is 24-bit color (3 × 8 bit planes), the maximum frame rate is 100 per second and finally the basic clip size is anything up to 10 s.
What is not shown in the overview figure is the requirement for some basic control options (such as play, record, store) to allow the stored clips to be replayed using a standard VGA output (available on most FPGA development kits) or stored for long-term storage on a hard disc drive (or similar high capacity storage device). This could be handled separately using a PC interface, but that detail is beyond the scope of this basic system description.
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