Stand-Alone Board Processes Images Cost-Effectively
Mar 1, 2004 — The days when an engineer needed to have a computer, a frame grabber, an operating system and a software package to inspect a manufacturing process may soon be over.
Today, companies such as Actel, Atmel, Altera, Cypress Semiconductor, Lattice Semiconductor and Xilinx are producing programmable logic devices that have densities of up to and even more than 1 million gates. Over the past few years, advances in gate densities and improvements in programming software for these devices have made...