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14 years ago

Image processing is done in "Hardware" or "Software"

I am a newbie for FPGA. I have background in C/C++, Matlab ,and i just completed a book "Verilog by Examples". I am wondering about image processing, such as blob analysis, threshold, edge, sob...
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14 years ago

Using a Nios running C, is suprisingly slow. Your best to do as much in HDL as possible.

Have a look at opencores.org, there may be some stuff up on there.

There is also the Altera University Program files (google it) that have a few video cores you may find useful.