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56 Chapter 4: Matrox Rapixo CL Pro hardware reference
Processing FPGA
To reduce the number of image processing tasks that the Host CPU must perform,
the Matrox Rapixo CL Pro has a Processing FPGA. The Processing FPGA on
Matrox Rapixo CL Pro is a highly customizable Xilinx Kintex-7 (325T)
*
. The
Processing FPGA can be configured to offload and even accelerate the most
compute-intensive part of typical image processing applications, without
generating additional data traffic within the host computer (Host).
Before the Processing FPGA can process grabbed images, they must be stored in
on-board memory. If images stored in Host memory are required, they can be
streamed directly to the Processing FPGA for processing. Images and other data
resulting from processing can be stored in on-board memory or streamed to the
Host.
The maximum peak bandwidth for images streamed directly to/from Host
memory is 8 Gbyte/sec, as well as for images streamed to/from on-board memory.
*. Other functionality is also implemented through the FPGA, besides customizable
processing, such as the timers and quadrature decoders.