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Framos (2-647) will present its first 3D industrial camera, the D435e, along with an Intel RealSense-compatible system design kit for skeleton tracking. The firm’s camera and sensor module portfolio allows vision
Ultrascale platform. Further demonstrations include the miniature CMOS image sensor Naneye M, and the new global shutter image sensor CSG14K for machine vision and AOI applications supporting the 1-inch optical format from Ams. In addition, ATD Electronique
engineers and developers to evaluate many image sensors on open processor platforms.
www.framos.com
ATD Electronique (3A-539) will show its Macnica EasyMVC camera interface SLVS-EC Rx IP, equipped with the new Sony high-speed sensor IMX530. The interface is supported by SLVS- EC v2.0 IP onto an Intel Cyclone 10GX platform. A second demo includes the
Sony sensor IMX299 with SLVS- EC v1.2 IP, also from Macnica, demonstrated on a Xilinx Kintex
has organised a series of presentations in a separate conference room. Highlights are speeches from Macnica about SLVS-EC IP solutions; Sony, with inside information on the new Sony SWIR sensors; and Ams, with talks about small camera modules, applications and integration, plus NIR-enhanced sensors. A small number of seats are available on email request:
sales@atdelectronique.com.
www.atdelectronique.com
Finally, Xilinx (3A-235) will have demos highlighting its Versal adaptive compute acceleration card, Alveo accelerator cards, Industrial IoT, the Vitis unified software platform, and automotive solutions. One of the demonstrations on the Xilinx booth will be region of
interest-based encoding, using a video codec unit onboard the Zynq Ultrascale+ chip. When streaming video at limited transmission bandwidth, it’s necessary to use intelligent encoding whereby a region of interest (ROI) can be encoded at higher visual quality than the rest of the region. Using Vitis AI, the Xilinx deep learning processor unit is integrated in the pipeline and is used to identify the ROI’s mask. The video codec unit then allocates more bits for ROIs in comparison to the rest of the region at a given bitrate to improve encoding efficiency. The key markets for this are video surveillance, video conferencing, medical and broadcast. Also on display is a machine learning inference solution for edge use cases on the Versal
Adaptive Compute Acceleration Card. Using Xilinx tools, it is built on a heterogeneous compute platform where adaptable engines are used to integrate live video interfaces along with pre- or post-processing elements. Real-time 3D calculation of
physical effects using the Bullet Engine on Alveo accelerator boards will be shown. Industrial applications benefit from digital real-time models of devices. Other demonstrations include a cloud-trained neural network on a connected Xilinx IIoT edge device, along with an automated driving demonstration and path- finding platform, and an ADAS development kit from Xylon, based on the Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC device. Xilinx will also be discussing
several topics at Embedded World on 26 February, including the Versal AI core at 2pm; low- bit CNN implementation and optimisation on FPGAs at 3pm; and emerging SoC performance and power challenges at 4pm.
www.xilinx.com
Other embedded vision product releases
conjunction with Sundance Multiprocessor Technology, also a member of the Tulipp consortium. Lynsyn Lite measures the
Embedded computing and vision equipment released recently includes power measurement tool Lynsyn Lite, from Sundance Multiprocessor Technology. It has the ability to measure a system’s energy consumption based on application behaviour, identifying the causes of power issues. The core Lynsyn technology
was developed by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) as part of its involvement in the EU’s Tulipp project. It was designed to overcome the challenges of measuring energy consumption when building the project’s reference platform for image processing applications. Lynsyn Lite has been engineered by NTNU in
power usage of individual sections of source code deployed in embedded systems. It connects over JTAG to sample the program counters of the system processors and correlate the power measurements with the source code, mapping consumption samples to application actions. A sampling frequency of up to 10kHz is used. Lynsyn Lite features three sensors that measure both current and voltage. Although it has been designed to support application power profiling – primarily of systems based on Arm Cortex A9, A53 and A57 cores – there is no need to purchase a separate JTAG pod; it can also be used as a generic JTAG programming device with the Xilinx Vivado tool suite. The measurement tool is
compatible with both Linux and Windows operating systems and includes open source software
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that both samples and visualises measurement results. Elsewhere, Active Silicon’s
3G-SDI, HDMI and USB/HDMI autofocus-zoom block cameras deliver high-definition, low- latency video transmission and capture. These cameras – 34.7 x 41.5 x 58.4mm – have 10x optical zoom and other features including 3D noise reduction, wide dynamic range mode, and motion detection. Active Silicon’s interface
board brings features such as simultaneous HD-SDI and analogue output, simultaneous USB and HDMI output, and HD-VLC output for long distance transmission. By customising the FPGA firmware, Active Silicon can add application-specific
video processing features to the cameras. These features can also be controlled over a serial or USB connection. Finally, Lucid Vision Labs has
released Helios Flex, a pre- calibrated time-of-flight Mipi module that can be integrated easily into embedded platforms for industrial and robotics applications. The module features Sony’s DepthSense IMX556PLR back-illuminated ToF image sensor on an embedded board using the Nvidia Jetson TX2. It delivers 640 x 480 depth resolution at 6m distance, using four 850nm VCSEL laser diodes. The Helios Flex module includes a software development kit with GPU- accelerated depth processing and runs at 30fps.
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