Em 7/10/2006, "Andrés Calderón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
>On 7/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Hello ! >> >> i am a mechanical engeneer student and i am beginning a project that >> consists in develop a tool for image processing for industry ( >> artificial vision). >> >> I remembered that i saw some nice arm processor boards that are not that >> difficult to build, and the price is quite low (about 1000 euros a >> prototype). >> >> My question is: is the arm processor capable of supporting multiple >> acquiring image devices (cameras) and process them (by a C program)? >> >> I think an intel pentium @ 450 MHz is capable, but how do i comparfe with >> arm, before i buy? > > >The ARM is (usually) integer processing oriented. > >Benchmarks for the XSCALE255 : >http://www.gumstix.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Benchmarks > >An useful site for comparison: >http://www.eembc.org/ > > >My idea is to develop an custom board and to connect there multiple >> cameras (as needed ... 1 to 4 cameras) filter the image and provide >> results (for example, to count pills in a pill box), basing that in >> installing a base debian system and then provide packages of the >> application of image treatment. > > >ARM is probably no the better choice for image treatment (obviously this >depend of the algoritms) >This is an interesant alternative: >http://www.ime.usp.br/~fr/sbc/ >An FPGA can speedup greatly the power processing.... >X86 in the easy choice (neither the funnier, and smaller ) see Mini-ITX : >www.mini-itx.com > > > >what do you think? >> >> Just for the record, i am an active debian user in x86 and x86-64. > > >In www.emqbit.com yo can found an ARM based low cost SBC with debian >preinstalled (with USB port, compatible with USB cameras). > > thank you for your answear, it had been very helpful. i'll see the imaging options. I am about to see the mips processors too. there are options that cost more or less 250 euros and are supported by debian, witch is an good advantage. regarding the mini-itx, it is less customizable, and much more expensible. For now, it is not an option. >best regards >> >> Luis Matos >> >> >-- Andres Calderon
