How FPGAs are Enabling Fast Raster Processing and Low Power Consumption

Jul 18, 2023 Today’s field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) have tens of TB/s access to internal memory and a direct connection between logic parts, which dramatically reduces the DRAM access requirements. As a result, FPGAs enable fast raster processing at low power consumption while reducing product cost.

Due to the FPGA development challenges, many have avoided their use. However, the rapid growth of sensor matrices and frame rates require a second look at heterogenous processing, including FPGA processing. The main challenges of developing high-performance FPGA processing are not having access to the right development tools and lengthy compilation times.

In his talk, Weintraub showcases development tools that dramatically help reduce the overall system development and compilation time using FPGAs in the processing pipeline.

*** This presentation premiered during the 2023 Vision Spectra Conference. For more information on Photonics Media conferences, visit events.photonics.com.

About the presenter

Reuven Weintraub, Gidel’s founder & CTO, has more than 35 years of experience with algorithm development utilizing FPGAs and is considered to be one of the world’s FPGA experts. He has presented talks and participated in panels for FPGA in vision and high-performance computing (HPC). Weintraub leads Gidel’s innovations and development tools for high performance FPGAs processing. He received his master’s and bachelor’s from The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.