Module enables vision and control algorithms to be embedded directly on fpgas
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National Instruments has announced the release of a new vision module for the PXI platform designed to provide a high performance parallel processing architecture for hardware-defined timing, control and image pre-processing.
According to NI, the NI 1483 Camera Link adapter module, in combination with an NI FlexRIO fpga board, offers a solution for embedding vision and control algorithms directly on fpgas.
James Cotton, a graduate researcher in neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine believes that the speed and flexibility of fpgas is a crucial technology to perform intensive image processing at high speeds. Cotton said: "NI LabVIEW fpga graphical programming tools along, with NI FlexRIO fpga hardware for PXI technology, allowed us to quickly develop a high quality eye tracking solution that can resolve fixation position to within tenths of a degree at up to 500Hz."
The NI 1483 has been designed for optical coherence tomography (OCT) and high speed control systems for applications such as laser alignment and sorting. The module is also said to be suitable for acquisition from Camera Link devices with custom tap configurations and high resolution sensors measuring more than 10megapixels requiring hardware-based pre-processing.
The new module supports base, medium and full configuration Camera Link devices as well as 80bit 10tap configurations, up to 85MHz. This design enables customisation of the image acquisition when using custom image sensors.
