Firms shorten image-processing design time

Celoxica and GiDEL are joining forces to reduce the design time for high-end image-processing and machine-vision applications. Using programmable logic as a low-power coprocessor to accelerate system performance, the firms have integrated Celoxica's ESL design environment and video IP libraries with GiDEL's high-performance FPGA+ modular digital signal processing (DSP) platforms.

Celoxica's tools enable developers to implement their C algorithms directly into FPGA hardware, where they can be augmented with libraries of video IP. With Celoxica's open API software and board-support packages, users can create imaging applications independent of board-level detail and compile their applications to program the FPGAs on GiDEL platforms, which offer VGA, DVI, and Camera Link interfaces. www.celoxica.com; www.gidel.com.