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Vision HDL Toolbox

Design image processing, video, and computer vision systems for FPGAs and ASICs

Vision HDL Toolbox™ provides pixel-streaming algorithms for the design and implementation of vision systems on FPGAs and ASICs. It provides a design framework that supports a diverse set of interface types, frame sizes, and frame rates. The image processing, video, and computer vision algorithms in the toolbox use an architecture appropriate for HDL implementations.

The toolbox algorithms are designed to generate readable, synthesizable code in VHDL® and Verilog® (with HDL Coder™). The generated HDL code is FPGA-proven for frame sizes up to 8k resolution and for high frame rate (HFR) video.

Toolbox capabilities are available as MATLAB® functions, System objects and Simulink® blocks.

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Learn the basics of Vision HDL Toolbox

Video Formats and Interfaces

Convert between frame-based video and pixel streams

HDL-Optimized Algorithm Design

Select blocks or System objects for streaming video processing

HDL Code Generation and Deployment

Generate HDL code using HDL Coder, verify using HDL Verifier™, prototype using hardware support packages

Vision HDL Toolbox Supported Hardware

Support for third-party hardware, such as Xilinx® Zynq® with FMC HDMI CAM