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Images and High-Speed Processing
Introduction
This application is designed to show how several high data rate appli-
cations can be handled using VHDL on FPGAs (Field Programmable
Gate Arrays). The system consists of a high speed camera, processor
core, disk drive interface, Random Access Memory (RAM) interface
and serial link to an external Program Counter (PC). The overall sys-
tem has been chosen to illustrate how to move large amounts of data
around quickly and efficiently. The outline of such a test application
is shown in the figure below. As can be seen, there are several key
aspects involved, but mainly it is about moving large amounts of data ...