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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

I'm not too sure if NIOS II can meet timing requirements for real-time frame rate (typically 30 frames per second). But it depends on what your video resolution is. At some point you want to do some processing in hardware as well.

On the other hand, the difficulty of doing a pure hardware implementation has a lot to do with your interfaces. What kind of camera are you using? A CCD camera connected to GPIOs is much easier than a USB 2.0 webcam (for which driver coded in Verilog would be insanely difficult).