Title :
A New High-Level Methodology for Programming FPGA-Based Smart Camera
Author :
Roudel, Nicolas ; Berry, François ; Sérot, Jocelyn ; Eck, Laurent
Author_Institution :
LASMEA, Univ. Blaise Pascal, Aubiere, France
Abstract :
Due to the various devices composing a smart camera system, various languages have to be known by the designer (like HDL and C/C++). Most of vision applications designers are software programmers and do not have a good knowledge of HDLs (VHDL). This paper presents a new high-level methodology for implementing vision applications on smart camera platforms. This methodology is based on a soft-core approach to manage the whole system and a dataflow (actor-oriented) language to design the processing elements. We discuss in particular interfacing constraints.
Keywords :
cameras; computer vision; field programmable gate arrays; hardware description languages; FPGA-based smart camera; VHDL language; dataflow language; field programmable gate array; high-level methodology; soft-core approach; vision applications; Computer architecture; Driver circuits; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware design languages; Registers; Schedules; Smart cameras; CAL; Soft-core; heterogeneous platforms; methodology; processing elements; smart camera;
Conference_Titel :
Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD), 2010 13th Euromicro Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lille
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7839-2
DOI :
10.1109/DSD.2010.68
