Examples of FPGA

Some examples to illustrate the scope of the FPGA on image processing:

Cameras connected directly to the FPGA on custom hardware in purely industrial applications.

Custom devices with sensors and actuators, where some actions are taken according to the image: color histogram under a threshold, illumination adjustment, monitoring the quality of a production line and defects detection.

Artificial intelligence on the edge and with low power consumption.

The FPGA Image Signal Processing (ISP) Library is a collection of accelerators and templated C++ modules to perform image processing on FPGA-based video streams for Vivado High-Level Synthesis (Vivado HLS*). Since FPGA ISP is purely based on hardware description, you can create low-latency ISP applications which execute in a highly predictable way.

The real power of FPGA ISP is the capability of interconnecting several ISP modules in cascade without having a penalty of executing each module individually in a sequential fashion. This capability is thanks to the pipelining and data flow programming models available when describing ISPs with High-Level Synthesis (see Figure 1).