Video Surveillance
The shift from dedicated DSP processor to FPGAs as an efficient mechanism for parallel signal processing, can be seen in the latest video analytics prototype from Eutecus Inc. Eutecus, a Xilinx partner who had worked on Texas Instruments Da Vinci architectures in the past, elected to move its Multicore Video analytics Engine, or MVE, to the Spartan-3A DSP 3400A FPGA. In this video, Xilinx senior product line manager Joe Mallett shows how a mix of software and dedicated hardware in the Spartan allows an HD signal to be processed in real time, utilizing both VGA and QVGA formats. Not only are the DSP blocks running real-time algorithms in the Spartan FPGA important, but the on-chip MicroBlaze RISC architecture runs Eutecus’s InstantVision management software. MVE provides proof that an FPGA with DSP blocks can meet all the real-time constraints of the most modern standalone DSP architectures, and that the use of parallel algorithms allows multiple video signals to be processed simultaneously.
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