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Do you have any examples of FGPAs used with image processing? I've done a little, and I've seen some academic examples. But I haven't seen anything in productio
by asynchronous13 12y ago
Do you have any examples of FGPAs used with image processing? I've done a little, and I've seen some academic examples. But I haven't seen anything in production.
- wcunning 12y agoThe acquisition systems in almost all medical imaging, along with their noise reduction and such are built with FPGAs. An MRI machine costs several million dollars or more, and GE sells a handful each year, so spending $10,000 on the FPGA that it's built around makes more sense than millions on spinning an ASIC that will be out-of-date the day the machine is put in the field. Not to mention the need to maintain these machines for decades, given the replacement cost. Nothing else will do, when an applications processor is too slow to do data acquisition and an ASIC isn't cost effective.
- reportingsjr 12y agoMilitary cameras, high frame rate cameras, etc. Military cameras in particular since they used uncompressed data (think tens of gbits/s to deal with) and tend to be in mobile environments. Lots of image stabilization and other such things going on. These types of cameras also tend to be low volume and high cost like wcunning mentioned.
- fezz 12y agoTake a look at: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ Almost all their products are FPGA based designs based on a similar core set of blocks which are then leveraged across many products. This reduces both development and fpga cost for them. Very smart approach.