Cameras are everywhere.  I can remember when I thought to myself: “Who would ever want a camera in a cell phone?” I had the narrow view of my use of a camera – given my bulky SLR with a lens as big as my forearm.  A cell phone could never come close to that quality so I would never use it.

Just over 10 years have passed and clearly – things have changed.

Cell phone picture quality is still nowhere near my 10lb camera setup, but its darn good. But the key is that my cell phone is always with me. I take MANY more pictures on my cell phone than I do with my SLR.  I also take pictures of things I would have never dreamed of (product serial numbers, business cards, things I need to remember to buy, automatically checking the price of something by taking a picture of the barcode, etc…). I use the camera all the time.

What does this have to do with Foresys and our Expert Design Services? I’ll get to the point. FPGAs are outstanding low-power data processing wonders and they are well suited to connect to nearly any device. Foresys has already shown how well sensors can connect to FPGAs via the various interfaces, such as cameralink and MIPI.

Who would want to connect a camera to an FPGA?  Wait 10 years and see.