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14 years ago

NIOS II vs 100% hardware implementation

Hi all, I'm working on a videoprocessing application. Now I am faced with a importnant design choice: create the whole system in hardware or create a SoC (a NIOS II system). Most importnan...
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14 years ago

it really depends on what you're doing to the video.

For real time manipulation, the FPGA is is going to be cleaner and faster, especially with higher speed/resolution video. If you need to do some decision based processing (like target tracking) then you probably want the nios for the software.