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14 years ago

Camera Design

I am working on a project that involves inputing data from 3-6 machine vision cameras (6 monochrome or 3 color) performing some basic image processing on the streams from the cameras and then saving ...
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14 years ago

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So assuming I get an interface chip for each camera, will an FPGA be able to handle six parallel streams of video data?

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Shouldnt be a problem, but it will really depend on what operations you are going to do. If you need to buffer the video you will need a lot of external memory bandwidth. We have a project that has 16 video inputs, all of them buffered, on a single (large) FPGA.