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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

DE0 or DE0-Nano for image processing study

Hello, I am an undergraduate student in Computer Engineering and I'm in need of a little advice.

I'm starting to learn about image processing because in the future I would like to create a device with some machine vision capabilities (edge detection, etc) as a senior design project; however, for now I'm looking for an FPGA I can use over the summer to tinker with and learn about creating and sending images to a monitor in the first place. I've narrowed down my prospects to either the DE0 or DE0-nano. That the DE0 has a vga port already on it would have made the choice obvious, but I found a site where someone was able to make a very simple vga breakout board for the Nano; that coupled with its Cyclone IV and that its all around more powerful has put me on the fence.

For what I'm doing, the end goal being to learn what I can about elementary image processing, should I buy a DE0 or DE0-Nano? Money is not factor.

Thanks :)

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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

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    Money is not factor.

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    Then why not buy exactly what you need.

    The Terasic NEEK has VGA and a screen. The Terasic tPAD is a DE2-115 with VGA and a screen.

    There are a number of I/O boards that can be attached to the DE2 boards.

    Browse around the Terasic web site and see what they have.

    Cheers,

    Dave
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    13 years ago

    Thanks for the reply Dave. I should have clarified, what I meant when I said that money was not a factor was that the price difference between the DE0 and DE0-Nano wasn't something I was concerned about. Unfortunately, the tPad is outside my budget (trying to keep it sub $200, but that's not an absolute limit).

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    13 years ago

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    I should have clarified, what I meant when I said that money was not a factor was that the price difference between the DE0 and DE0-Nano wasn't something I was concerned about. Unfortunately, the tPad is outside my budget (trying to keep it sub $200, but that's not an absolute limit).

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    Ok.

    Since you are a student, you should qualify for student pricing of the boards.

    So the DE0 is $79 and the DE0-nano is $59. Buy them both?

    Or buy the DE0 and get the $99 LCD panel

    http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=68&no=78

    Cheers,

    Dave