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12 years ago

how to load a image in quartus II tool and convert it into a .dat file

i am doing final year project on image processing and i have to convert a image file into .dat file in quartus II tool so that i can use it as a input to my architecture and project is on image detec...
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12 years ago

Look up a common image source and figure out how the bits are formatted. I would suggest using either .BMP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bmp_file_format or

.PPM formats as they are very simplistic

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppm.html

Then write a conversion program that arranges the bits how you like.

The PPM format you may be able to read directly.

Inkscape is a good GPL program to try to convert from one image format to another.

Python also has image reading routines that can be used to convert image formats. import the image module and you can read several different file formats.

Pete