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13 years ago

Video Surveillance using altera fpga DE2 board

Hi, I need some recommendations on what type of camera to be used for my project. My project is basically using camera to monitor a room, and transfer the data to FPGA. Next the data will be trans...
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13 years ago

The big advantage of this camera over other ones is that you can directly plug it on your kit and it will be connected to the FPGA. If you want to connect a cheap usb webcam it is a lot more difficult because you would need to implement a USB master on the FPGA, and I don't think the DE2 provides this.

To transfer the image to PC the more efficient way is Ethernet. You may be able to transfer data on the USB blaster interface through JTAG but this is quite slow, probably too slow for video.