Bi-i V301F High-Speed Smart Camera

Among the fastest and most powerful vision systems in the world, Bi-i V301F advances the award-winning Bi-i series of intelligent cameras by using an FPGA to offload the on-board DSP. The DSP – working in parallel with the FPGA – is freed up to perform more intelligent algorithms while the FPGA performs the computationally intensive image pre-processing tasks.

Based on the same Cellular Visual Technology developed for different US government agencies and research universities in several countries, the Bi-i V301F’s extraordinary speed and versatility can be harnessed for multitarget tracking applications, security and surveillance programs, industrial process control and machine vision tasks, and any application requiring ultra-fast image processing.

Powered by the latest generation of high-performance Texas Instruments DSPs and Xilinx FPGAs, the Bi-i V301F is a self-contained vision system; no external hardware (frame grabber or PC) is needed.

The Bi-i V301F is currently available as a reference design for camera manufacturers and application developers.

Key features of Bi-i V301F:

• Windows and Linux API for rapid application development.
  High-resolution CMOS sensor with 40-MHz pixel rate (grayscale or color).
• Texas Instruments DSP.
• Embedded Xilinx FPGA for high-speed image preprocessing.
• Supports the cross-platform InstantVision software libraries developed for Signal and Image Flow Processing, Multitarget Tracking, and Feature Classification.
• Easy-to-use Windows C++ Software Development Kit for Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio and Windows.
• Windows and Linux API for rapid application development.