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From: llw@CORWIN.ENG.YALE.EDU (Louis L. Whitcomb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re:  Transputer based frame capture
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Date: 5 Jun 90 16:40:51 GMT
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Greetings:

  The transputer white pages is usually the best place to begin a search.
You can get a set from your INMOS field application engineer.

  To provide for our need for a real-time object tracking vision system
at the Yale Robotics Lab, we found it necessary to build our own, as 
detailed in the NATUG89 Proceedings (Salt Lake, UT, April 1989).

  In general, We found that there are a number of image display boards
available on the market.  There are, however, fewer image digitizing
boards.  Two representative digitizing boards available are the 
paracom TFG and the caplin QTVIO.  

  The stringent real-time demands of our *particular* application,
in which we needed to process images at *field* rate (1/60 sec!) 
demanded that we build some special hardware to do the job. Building
fast, economical vision boards is a lot of work, so don't do so 
unless there is absolutely no alternative.

  The Best,

      Louis

Louis L. Whitcomb                 arpa:llw@corwin.eng.yale.edu
Yale Robotics Laboratory         phone: (203) 432-4311 fax: (203)432-7481
Department of Electrical Engineering, 1968 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520