Digital Video Surveillance Kit by Avnet/ADI/Micron
Check out this new Digital Surveillance Kit from Avnet. It provides a simplified prototype development platform for networked video surveillance applications, combining video handling capabilities of the Blackfin® Processor and CMOS image sensors by Micron.
Combining DSPs and FPGAs in next-generation multimode wireless handset designs
Multimode RF is currently incorporated in a number of advanced handsets, either in the commercial or public safety/military worlds.
Because many of these handsets must support advanced, complex, evolving, and/or emerging protocols, the need for a powerful, reprogrammable part such as an FPGA arises.
Use of FPGAs in low-power handsets design is becoming more and more possible thanks to the benefits of shrinking silicon geometries.
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http://www.pc104online.comdate: 6/1/2007
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CORBA for FPGAs: Tying together GPPS, DSPs, and FPGAs
As signal processing systems become larger and more complex, system builders are running into a performance wall.
In order to achieve the desired performance requirements of these extensive systems, modern signal processing systems often combine Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), General Purpose Processors (GPPs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). To facilitate development of such multi-processor systems, designers can now use a distr...
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http://www.vmecritical.comdate: 2/7/2008
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FPGA versus DSP design reliability and maintenance
In many complex electronic products, the initial choice of a processing engine and its associated design methodology can have a profound impact on the end product reliability.
This choice will also have a large affect on the effort required to maintain the product throughout its life cycle.
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http://dsp-fpga.comdate: 7/25/2007
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Multicomputer software development systems come of age
It was not so long ago that the typical DSP development package was a set of optimized libraries, plus a port to the industry standard Vector Signal Image Processing Library (VSIPL) and a driver for an RTOS.
While these are still essential elements for algorithm development, the platforms that host DSP applications have become much more complex, offering FPGA front ends and multicompute engines for DSP and general purpose processors for back-e...
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http://www.mil-embedded.comdate: 4/2/2008
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Pentek Applications Stories
This section contains application stories which appeared in The Pentek Pipeline, Pentek's quarterly newsletter.
These application articles show how Pentek products have been used to address an applications requirement, or solve a DSP problem.
Articles will be added on a regular basis, so be sure to check back.
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http://www.pentek.com
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FPGA vs. DSP Design Reliability and Maintenance
Digital signal processing (DSP) underpins modern wireless and wireline communications, medical diagnostic equipment, military systems, audio and video equipment, and countless other products, becoming increasingly common in consumers' lives.
Due to advances in semiconductor technology, ever more complex DSP algorithms, protocols, and applications are now feasible, which, in turn, increase the complexity of the systems and products....
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http://www.altera.comdate: 4/17/2007
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Multi-Core DSP Enables Advanced Target Discrimination and Tracking
Video surveillance must automatically detect targets and suspicious behaviors in order to effectively monitor large networks of cameras.
Single processor designs have limited previous attempts at video content analysis and computer vision.
We present a cost-effective multi-core approach that utilizes 16 DSP and 8 RISC processors on one chip, working in parallel to analyze video feeds for use in smart network cameras.
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http://0101.netclime.net
Full development tools available for DM355 & DM644x. PrKERNELv4 is a fully preemptive and deterministic kernel with a wide range of middleware and multimedia codecs supported.
Licensed in full source code with no royalty.
Seamlessly integrated with system level firmware and dev tools such as file system, USB host & device, TCP/IP, and IDE from eSOL and its leading partners for TI's DaVinci processors.
An ideal fit for consumer electronics and automotive applications