FPGA system with Camera Link
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 8/1/2006
Used as a stand-alone board for embedded applications or connected to a PC, the RTG005 from Hunt Engineering leverages a user-programmable FPGA with an embedded PowerPC processor and a Camera Link interface for image acquisition. The system supplies 128 Mbytes of DDR SDRAM, 16 Mbytes of flash memory for PowerPC code storage, and a USB 2.0 port.
The embedded PowerPC processor allows the user to combine hardware processing programmed in VHDL with software processing programmed in C. Hunt furnishes VHDL support to permit concurrent access to the DDR memory from both the PowerPC and the VHDL design. The system comes with a sample imaging design that performs many standard imaging functions and streams data to a host PC for display. The FPGA can be configured via the USB port, a Xilinx JTAG cable, or from onboard PROM.
The RTG005 comes with a USB cable, I/O cables, power-supply unit, and CD containing all documentation, tutorials, software tools, and samples. Hunt Engineering, www.hunteng.co.uk.
