Industrial Vision System
Industrial Vision System
Apr 04The vision system is built around the Avnet ML605 board with Virtex6 FPGA from Xilinx. It has two mezzanine boards. The Integre FMC200 board provides Base, Medium and Full Camera link interface to high speed, high definition industrial cameras offered by Bassler, Photon Fokus, etc. The 4DSP FMC150 high speed ADC/DAC board provides both analog input/outputs and digital tirggering input. The ML605 board can work autonomously or installed in PC ocupying one x16 PCIe slot. The design implemented in Vertex6 FPGA converts the video data from Camera Link interface to several outputs: 1G Ethernet, VGA, or x8 PCIe downloading video and analog streems to the PC memory using DMA channel. A GUI developed under Linux, Win XP, or Win 7 gives the oportunities to control the video transfer (stream or single frame, frame rate, size of the frames defining the Region Of Interst) and acquisition of analog signals controlling the sampling frequency. The FPGA design provides also real time image processing, particularly edge detection by Sobel filtering. User defined image processing algorithms can be implemented in addition.