By Ashok Bindra TMCnet Contributor Expanding its FPGA solutions for the surveillance market, Altera (News – Alert) Corp. (www.altera.com) has unwrapped industry’s first high-definition (HD), intellectual property (IP) reference design for surveillance cameras on a single FPGA.
This unique solution features Altera’s low-cost Cyclone III or Cyclone IV FPGAs and IPs from Eyelytics (www.eyelytics.com) and Apical Ltd. (www.aplical-imaging.com) supporting AltaSens’ 1080p60 A3372E3-4T and Aptina’s 720p60 MT9M033 HD wide dynamic range (WDR) CMOS image sensors. The all-in-one solution offers surveillance equipment manufacturers the ability to reduce board space, lower power consumption, increase flexibility and reduce development time compared to previous architectures using traditional digital signal processors (DSPs) and application-specific standard products (ASSPs), claims Altera’s release.
According to Altera, traditional DSPs and ASSPs don’t have the processing power required to accept the large bandwidth of data from 1080p and 720p WDR CMOS sensors. For instance, a full HD raster is 2200×1125 pixels x 16
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