How Can PMC FPGA Boards Excel at Image Processing? – 8400592

Acromag PMC FPGA Boards Excel at Image Processing

PMC FPGA Boards Excel at Image Processing

Acromag has engaged in a number of image processing applications based upon implementations of Camera Link running on a Virtex-5 FPGA module. In several of these instances, LVDS signals are used to collect the image data through front and/or rear I/O connections on the PMC FPGA module. Other applications use a custom interface developed for selected imaging devices to capture data through the PMC module’s front and rear I/O interfaces. To select the appropriate FPGA module for image processing applications engineers must consider a number of pertinent criteria.

Finding an appropriate Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) FPGA module for image processing depends on a number of key factors: I/O interface, frame speed, frame size, on-board processing requirements, and host communication speed/volume. The Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA devices found on Acromag’s latest COTS PMC Modules offer blazing 550MHz processing speed and a variety of high-performance memory options that are well-suited to image processing functions.

Table 1: Acromag PMC modules with re-configurable Virtex-5 FPGAs

Model Number	Logic Cells	Total Block RAM(Kbits)	DSP48E Slices	DDR2 SDRAM Capacity (32-bit Word)1	Dual-Port SRAM Capacity (64-bit Word)2
PMC-VLX85	82,944	3,888	48	32M	256K
PMC-VLX110	110,592	5,328	64	32M	256K
PMC-VLX155	155,648	7,632	128	32M	256K
PMC-VFX70	71,680	5,328	128	64M	256K
PMC-VSX95	94,208	8,784	640	32M	256K