Performance Evaluation of Different Memory Components for FPGA based Embedded System Design for Video Processing Application

Advances in FPGA technology have dramatically increased the use of FPGAs for computer vision applications. Availability of on-chip processor (like PowerPC) made it possible to design embedded systems using FPGAs for video processing applications. The objective of this research is to evaluate the performance of different memory components available on FPGA boards for embedded/platform-based implementations of image/video processing applications. The clustering based change detection algorithm for Ubiquitous Multimedia Environment is selected for evaluating the effect of different memory components (DDR/BRAM) on performance of the system in terms of frame rate (frames per second)