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News Release from: Firstsight Vision | Subject: Anaconda Processing Engine
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 March 2005
Anaconda: custom hardware on a standard
platform
Showing in Europe for the first time at IPOT 2005 is the Coreco Imaging new flagship Image Processing Engine, the Anaconda: designed to enable OEM customers to implement ultra high speed algorithms
Showing in Europe for the first time at IPOT 2005 is Coreco Imaging's new flagship Image Processing Engine, the Anaconda It has been designed from the ground up to enable OEM customers to implement ultra high speed algorithms in a scaleable embedded environment, leaving the host PC free for other tasks
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 11 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Building on Coreco's 'Trigger to Image Reliability' framework which was launched with the X64 series, the Anaconda's design features a robust Acquisition Control Unit (ACU) and a data transfer engine (DTE) that can accommodate multiple simultaneous transfers enabling original, intermediate and result image data to be delivered to the host.
The Anaconda Image Processing Unit (IPU) contains two independent image processors which can be run in parallel or in a pipeline configuration.
The first is a large Field Programmable Array Logic Processor (FPGA) or put more simply "soft hardware." Developers are free to implement there own hardware algorithms or link together Coreco Imaging developed standard designs.
Programming can be done using standard VHDL development toolsets or Celectica's DK3 that enables C like programming of the hardware.
The second image processor is a Power PC module that is supported by Metrowerks Code Warrior.
Developers are free to write there own code or link together any of the Coreco Imaging library functions such as the robust Smart Search.
2 GBytes of image memory is available to the programmer with a sustainable data bandwidth of 5.3GBytes/second removing any design bottleneck issues.
The Anaconda is currently available in CameraLink or LVDS formats and is compatible with PCI 32 (3.3v), PCI 64 and PCI-X.
Applications include, film scanning, AOI, High Speed Web inspection among others.
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