Imaging/video solution comprises FMC, IP suite & GUI

In addition to its modular IP suite and hardware kit, the imaging/video solution includes a flexible image sensor interface connector as well as GUI-based software, enabling users to configure sensor display demonstrations in real time. Designs can be easily reused across multiple platforms using Libero SoC Design Suite, a comprehensive, easy to learn, easy to adopt development toolset for designing with Microsemi’s power efficient FPGAs and SoC FPGAs. The imaging/video IP suite is available now in the company’s Libero SoC IP vault. Designers can leverage the kit for numerous camera and display applications across medical, industrial, automotive, defence and aerospace markets. With features like low power, reliability and design/data security, the solution becomes suited for a variety of applications, including drones, machine vision, robotics, infrared cameras, HUDs, target acquisition systems, medical imaging, surveillance and automotive imaging.

Chowdhary Musunuri, Senior Director, SoC Products Group, Microsemi, commented: “Microsemi’s imaging/video kit and IP suite are central to our ongoing efforts to build a robust portfolio of solutions for video and imaging applications which are differentiated from competitors with our expertise in low power. We are pleased to offer customers this initial kit to speed their adoption of Microsemi FPGAs and SoCs in camera and display-based designs, and we look forward to announcing additional image design solutions to serve this market’s specific needs.”

The company’s new kit features an FMC-based imaging/video card with flexible image sensor interface, a display interface for 7:1 LVDS, HDMI connections and an audio processor. The initial image sensor board offers an AR0330-based image sensor module with a parallel bus interface. Future image sensor boards will offer other interfaces such as Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Camera Serial Interface (CSI-2) and High-Speed Serial Pixel (HiSPi). In addition, because the hardware is FMC-based, the kit, which plugs into the M2S150-ADV-DEV-KIT, could also be used with future Microsemi FPGAs and SoCs.

“The machine vision system market is growing at a significant rate of 12.6% and likely to reach $8.6bn by 2021. A shift towards the integration of advanced vision systems with autonomous robots, in order to guide robots’ arms and navigate them in production lines, is further fuelling the growth of machine vision system in industrial and medical applications,” added Dependra Lal, Senior Analyst, IndustryARC.

Microsemi’s imaging/video kit is available now.

Microsemi will be hosting a customer webinar, titled New Imaging and Video Solution for FPGA and SoC Designers, on 19th July 2016 at 8 a.m. PDT. The webinar will discuss the capabilities of the imaging and video FMC hardware, details of IP available in the modular IP suite and target applications for this new solution. Register here.