De-Mystifying accelerated Smart Vision Systems with All Programmable SoCs

Complex SoC devices, such as the Zynq® All Programmable SoC family from Xilinx®, are being chosen by designers for the next generation of smart and intelligent, embedded smart vision systems. SoCs offer new levels of processing acceleration that were not possible in older multi-chip architectures due to the abundant and tightly coupled connectivity of the ARM® Dual Cortex A9 processing system and the high performance programmable logic. Programming such complex devices can present a challenge for many designers. This paper describes how high performance platforms can be realized with greatest productivity and minimal FPGA design knowledge. Keywords—SoC; Smart Vision; low power vision; Zynq; acceleration