mike@focsys.uucp (Mike Walma) (06/05/90)
We are interested in any information about frame capture and/or display
hardware based on, or compatible with, Transputers.
We are interested in everything from capture or display Trams, right up
to board level products aimed at the AT clone market. Our needs range
from resolutions as low as 640x480 up to in the range of 1280x1024.
Both colour and grey scale are of interest.
What I am after is a survey of what is available, so anything more
substantial then a rumour would be appreciated. If there is sufficent
interest, I will post a summary.
Thanks in advance.
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Mike Walma -- Focus Systems -- Waterloo, Ontario
watmath!focsys!mike (519) 746-4918llw@CORWIN.ENG.YALE.EDU (Louis L. Whitcomb) (06/05/90)
Greetings:
The transputer white pages is usually the best place to begin a search.
You can get a set from your INMOS field application engineer.
To provide for our need for a real-time object tracking vision system
at the Yale Robotics Lab, we found it necessary to build our own, as
detailed in the NATUG89 Proceedings (Salt Lake, UT, April 1989).
In general, We found that there are a number of image display boards
available on the market. There are, however, fewer image digitizing
boards. Two representative digitizing boards available are the
paracom TFG and the caplin QTVIO.
The stringent real-time demands of our *particular* application,
in which we needed to process images at *field* rate (1/60 sec!)
demanded that we build some special hardware to do the job. Building
fast, economical vision boards is a lot of work, so don't do so
unless there is absolutely no alternative.
The Best,
Louis
Louis L. Whitcomb arpa:llw@corwin.eng.yale.edu
Yale Robotics Laboratory phone: (203) 432-4311 fax: (203)432-7481
Department of Electrical Engineering, 1968 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520