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14 years ago

Usable FPGA board

Hi, I'm pretty new to this forum. Currently working on a engineering project and need some advice on this stuff. I'm looking to buy a low end FPGA board for image processing. The FPGA need...
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14 years ago

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I think the cheapest camera to make due with is a Webcam, thus an USB / USB2.0 interface.

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The Terasic DE2 series have a full-speed USB OTG controller, its an NXP ISP1362. You could boot Linux on the DE2-115, configure the ISP1362 to stream data from a USB camera to an Avalon-MM slave, and process images in your custom logic.

If your camera uses Ethernet, then you would still probably need Linux so that you can leverage the TCP/IP stack, and stream data again to your custom Avalon-MM slave.

I think the DE2-70 and DE2-115 have enough logic and memory to run Linux.

Cheers,

Dave