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13 years ago

connecting DE1 cyclone II board to ethernet port in PC

Hi i am currently doing my final year project, which is remote video surveillance using FPGA de1 board. A camera will capture the video and transfer data to fpga, and from fpga it will send data to p...
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13 years ago

RS232 port maximum baurate is usually 115200 bps.

That means data throughput can't be above some 12.5k bytes per sec.

This is a rather low figure for streaming video, unless you accept a very low image quality and slow frame rate, even with strong data compression.