With technical progress in FPGA, the ARM-based SoC FPGA platform integrates an enhanced ARM processor, customizable FPGA, memory controllers and peripherals, which allow traditional industrial cameras and PC systems combination change to a compact smart camera with functions of image capture, process, analyze and transmission. Miniaturization, distributed, networked and highly integrated embedded intelligent vision system is becoming a trend of future.

Our latest SCZGE series smart camera adopts Xilinx’s latest Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC platform, which is based on a 28nm technical process, tightly integrates the ARM processor and FPGA framework. PS unit has high performance and low power consumption features of dual-core ARMCortex-A9 MPCore; PL unit has up to 74K logic unit and 160 DSP hardware processing unit; integrated 1GB DDR3 memory and 4GB eMMC. The SCZGE series smart camera can meet the strict requirements of industrial vision HD acquisition, high-speed real-time processing, compact structure and high reliability.

At the same time the camera has various of peripheral interfaces, GigE, RS232, HDMI, TF card, GPIO, etc., with the tailored custom linux kernel v4.0.0 version which is released in 2015 and embedded image acquisition SDK interface, the camera can simplify visual application development process, adapt to complex and changing industrial field applications. In addition, with Vivado HLS, a hardware acceleration tool which is provided by Xilinx, can convert users’ parallelizable C / C ++ image processing algorithms into VHDL or Verilog hardware description language and use the FPGA in the system to accelerate hardware and optimize system performance.