Image-capture boards speed vision tasks
Combining FPGAs, embedded processors, and real-time operating systems, PCI boards offload image-processing functions from the host PC.
System integrators wishing to perform complex image-processing tasks at high speed must look beyond the numerous PC-based frame-grabber boards currently available. While these boards provide interfaces between analog and digital standards, performing even the simplest image-processing operations is left to the host PC. When large amounts of data must be captured and analyzed rapidly, even the fastest 3-GHz host computers cannot process the data quickly enough for real-time machine-vision tasks.