Gigabit Ethernet Based Image Acquisition System for IR Camera

Author

Mandliya, Hitesh ; Tandon, Anuradha ; Shah, Jalpa ; Rajpal, Rachana

Author_Institution

Inst. for Plasma Res., Gandhinagar, India

fYear

2014

Firstpage

453

Lastpage

457

Abstract

With the advancements in the hardware technology, it is now possible to transmit data over Ethernet at the rate of 100Mbps/1Gbps. The only limiting factor for such a high peed data transfer is the speed of the processor in the computer which does all the TCP/IP processing by using the TCP/IP software written in it. In the present system, the IR sensor used is taking 50 images of plasma per second. When these images data are converted into digital, 7.3 Mbytes of data is required to be transmitted over the Ethernet. To transfer such a huge amount of data over the Ethernet, a TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) is used. TOE has the TCP/IP protocols implemented in hardware and does the all the TCP/IP processing. Thus, the image data transfer at Gigabit speed is achieved.

Keywords

cameras; computerised instrumentation; image processing; infrared detectors; infrared imaging; local area networks; transport protocols; IR camera; TCP-IP offload engine; TCP-IP software processing; TOE; bit rate 1 Gbit/s; bit rate 100 Mbit/s; gigabit Ethernet; hardware technology; high speed image data transfer; image acquisition system; memory size 7.3 MByte; Cameras; Computers; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; IP networks; Servers; Synchronization; Ethernet; FPGA; Gigabit Ethernet; IR camera; TCP/IP; TOE;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), 2014 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6928-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICN.2014.106

Filename

7065525