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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

No the DE2 doesn't have the required hardware to implement a USB master. I'm not aware of any easy way to implement one on the Altera FPGA kits available today. The Terrasic camera daughter card is most probably the easiest solution.

For data transfer you should either use TCP/IP or UDP/IP. UDP is usually more suited for streams, especially video.