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All the machine vision sensor companies use FPGA, which burns huge amount of power. Like 5w when it could be milliwatts.

I hope these guys have some ASIC modules for interfacing with CMOS global shutter sensors. Damn if they did I might start a machine vision cam company myself

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The challenge with today's FPGAs is that you rarely get exactly what you need. The smalle ones aren't feature complete and the big ones are expensive and power hungry. Lots of questions though, which interface parts are you talking about? The electrical interface (lvds, mipi, cmos, etc), width, resolution, vendor type, or some kind of custom ISP like you would have in a high end camera?

Do you have any good explanation why should it be Milliwatts? I am having here an older ZynQ project with 2 ARM cores running normal operating system and image processing part written in VHDL. 7 Watts. But it is normal computer with normal operating system. It’s on par with typical Raspberry Pi consumption.

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