PMID- 22163739
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120605
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1424-8220 (Electronic)
IS  - 1424-8220 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 3
DP  - 2011
TI  - Efficient smart CMOS camera based on FPGAs oriented to embedded image processing.
PG  - 2282-303
LID - 10.3390/s110302282 [doi]
AB  - This article describes an image processing system based on an intelligent ad-hoc 
      camera, whose two principle elements are a high speed 1.2 megapixel Complementary 
      Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) sensor and a Field Programmable Gate Array 
      (FPGA). The latter is used to control the various sensor parameter configurations 
      and, where desired, to receive and process the images captured by the CMOS 
      sensor. The flexibility and versatility offered by the new FPGA families makes it 
      possible to incorporate microprocessors into these reconfigurable devices, and 
      these are normally used for highly sequential tasks unsuitable for 
      parallelization in hardware. For the present study, we used a Xilinx XC4VFX12 
      FPGA, which contains an internal Power PC (PPC) microprocessor. In turn, this 
      contains a standalone system which manages the FPGA image processing hardware and 
      endows the system with multiple software options for processing the images 
      captured by the CMOS sensor. The system also incorporates an Ethernet channel for 
      sending processed and unprocessed images from the FPGA to a remote node. 
      Consequently, it is possible to visualize and configure system operation and 
      captured and/or processed images remotely.
FAU - Bravo, Ignacio
AU  - Bravo I
AD  - Electronics Department, University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Madrid 28871, 
      Spain. ibravo@depeca.uah.es
FAU - Balinas, Javier
AU  - Balinas J
FAU - Gardel, Alfredo
AU  - Gardel A
FAU - Lazaro, Jose L
AU  - Lazaro JL
FAU - Espinosa, Felipe
AU  - Espinosa F
FAU - Garcia, Jorge
AU  - Garcia J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20110224
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Sensors (Basel)
JT  - Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101204366
RN  - 0 (Metals)
RN  - 0 (Oxides)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Algorithms
MH  - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/*methods
MH  - Internet
MH  - Metals/*chemistry
MH  - Oxides/*chemistry
MH  - Photography/*instrumentation
MH  - Semiconductors/*instrumentation
MH  - Time Factors
PMC - PMC3231626
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - CMOS sensor
OT  - Ethernet
OT  - FPGA
OT  - intelligent camera
EDAT- 2011/12/14 06:00
MHDA- 2012/06/06 06:00
PMCR- 2011/01/01
CRDT- 2011/12/14 06:00
PHST- 2010/12/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2011/02/02 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2011/02/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/12/14 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/12/14 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/06/06 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2011/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - s110302282 [pii]
AID - sensors-11-02282 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/s110302282 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sensors (Basel). 2011;11(3):2282-303. doi: 10.3390/s110302282. Epub 2011 Feb 24.