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Sanyo Electric Leverages Xilinx Extended Spartan-3A Family in Next-Gen Surveillance Cameras
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Xilinx K.K., the Japanese arm of the programmable logic solutions
provider Xilinx, announced that Sanyo Electric has adopted the Xilinx
extended Spartan-3A family for Sanyo'S VCC-WD390 next-generation wide
dynamic range surveillance cameras.
Leveraging the Spartan-3A DSP device, Sanyo Electric implemented an
image-processing engine featuring proprietary high-performance
algorithms, meeting demanding time-to-market and development cost
requirements, the company said.
According to the company, in addition to providing finely-tuned image
sensing and high resolution imaging, surveillance cameras now must
offer wide dynamic range capabilities to clearly capture images in both
dark indoor and bright outdoor settings. Sanyo Electric's
next-generation wide dynamic range VCC-WD390 surveillance camera is
designed with such flexibility in mind. With a wide dynamic range CMOS
image sensor to provide high-quality images, exceeding charge coupled
devices (CCDs), and a proprietary image processing engine, the
surveillance cameras are capable of rendering images even closer to the
human eye. These cameras debuted September 15 at the American Society
for Industrial Security Show 2008 (ASIS 2008) in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Spartan-3A DSP FPGA family provided the functionality and
performance required for the next-generation wide dynamic range
capabilities offered by the VCC-WD390 surveillance camera. The device's
dedicated DSP blocks deliver an average of 70 percent logic efficiency
over a gates-plus-multipliers implementation, and functionality that
enables ASIC-equivalent performance without requiring an additional
co-processor chip. With Spartan-3A DSP FPGAs, Sanyo Electric was able
to develop original image processing engines with even more algorithms
in less time and at lower costs, the company said.
Shigekazu Morikawa, a design manager in Digital System Company's DI
Division in Sanyo Electric, comments, "With advances in quality and
performances of surveillance cameras, people are becoming particularly
interested in wide dynamic range capabilities. These next-generation
wide dynamic range surveillance cameras that we've developed are
strategic products that meet these types of market demands. The
revolutionary sensors that secure wide dynamic ranges and the newly
developed image-processing engine are the keys to product realization.
Adopting the Xilinx extended Spartan-3A family of FPGAs to this engine
and basing it on our company's image processing technology and know-how
cultivated through the years, we were able to achieve a
high-performance image processing engine employing the latest
algorithms in a short period of time while keeping down development
costs. The timely release of new products to the market is more
important now than ever. We believe there will be an even greater
increase in demand of FPGAs that can meet these needs in the future."
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