National Instruments’ has released a
vision module for the PXI platform
that provides a high-performance
parallel processing architecture for
hardware-defined timing, control
and image pre-processing.

The NI 1483 Camera Link adapter
module, in combination with an NI
FlexRIO field-programmable gate
array (FPGA) board, offers a solution
for embedding vision and control
algorithms directly on FPGAs.

Engineers and scientists can use
FPGAs to process and analyse an
image in real time with little to no
CPU intervention. Using FPGAs
helps eliminate the need to design
custom hardware.

FPGAs can be used to perform
operations by pixel, line and region
of interest. They can implement
many image processing algorithms
that are inherently parallel, including
fast Fourier transforms, thresholding
and filtering. The NI 1483 is suitable
for optical coherence tomography and
high-speed control systems for tasks
such as laser alignment and sorting.