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

fYear

2010

fDate

1-3 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

573

Lastpage

578

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSD.2010.68

Filename

5615545