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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

FPGA and video camera input

Hi,

I am currently looking for a platform which feeds a camera's input to an FPGA where I can do some harware accelerated image processing. I need to have a camrea that can feed in pixels to an FPGA, and then the FPGA can process the pixels. I have found solutions that use embedded cores or a PC to grab the image, but my objective is to feed the pixels directally into the FPGA as soon as they come in. Any help would be great.

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    Altera_Forum
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    10 years ago

    There are chips that will input DVI or HDMI serial video signals and turn them into parallel signals suitable for an FPGA. Several add on boards using this technique are available. Many Terasic dev kits have analog composite video decoders (like a VCR video in) as well. Demo projects come with most of these. You could also consider using a USB web cam. I don't know of any ready made solutions.