Overview
Color Space Converters (CSC) are used in video and image display systems including televisions, computer monitors, color printers, video telephony and surveillance systems. CSCs are also used in many video/image compression and processing applications, and in the implementation of NTSC/PAL/SECAM television standards, JPEG and MPEG systems. Color space conversion is required when transferring data between devices that use different color space models. For example, RGB to YCbCr color space conversion is required when displaying a computer image on a television. Similarly YCbCr to RGB color space conversion is required when displaying television movies on the computer monitor. As a color can be represented completely using three dimensions, a color space is a three dimensional space. Color space conversion is a one-to-one mapping from one color space to another color space.
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Computer vision has made tremendous advances in the last several years due to the proliferation of AI technology. The intersection of big data and massive parallel computing changed the way in which machines are programmed to understand unstructured 2D and 3D data, such as video feeds from cameras.
Traditional IC design options that embedded system designers have had to choose from include fixed hardware devices such as standalone microprocessors, microcontrollers and ASSPs or configurable hardware devices such as FPGAs and cell-based ASICs. In this paper we present a new design option called Nextreme Structured ASICs which provide embedded system designers with a compelling alternative to custom embedded system design.
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Configurable Processors for Video Processing SOCs
In this article, we show how fast video streams conforming to MIPI CSI2 rev2.0 over MIPI DPHY rev1.2 can be generated, using VLSI Plus’ SVTPlus-CSI2-F IP core, with simple off-FPGA analog front-end. The high bit rates can be achieved with a relatively slow FPGA clock frequency, trading off FPGA resources for simple timing closure.
Beyond pure process scaling which is necessary to meet today's price, power, and performance goals, chip designers have to grapple with tighter integration and product performance specialities in areas such as integrated power management, image sensing, application-specific data conversion, and enhanced display drivers.
