VisualApplets IDE Software License - VisualApplets

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Design Creation

• Creating designs with drag-and-drop

• Dataflow-model design

• Graphical GUI

• Graphical image format configuration

• Graphical operator configuration

• Hierarchical structuring of designs

• Signal processing for GPIO (trigger, light control, etc.)

• User library feature

Design Simulation

• High level simulation

• Probing of intermediate simulation results

• Sourcing of image data from disk

Design Validation

• Design rules check

• FPGA resource calculation

• FPGA resource information for individual operators

Integration Support

• Integration with Runtime Environment

• Register control by software

• SDK code generator

• Xilinx FPGA build flow integration

Advanced Features

• Custom operators protection mechanism

• Operator library for in-hardware debugging

• Parameter transformation and redirection

• Scripting via Tcl commands

• Tcl script collection feature

• User library protection

• VHDL import - custom operator designer

• Compression operators

• Blob (segmentation) operators

For developers

• FPGAs are upstream of the CPU and handle a variety of image processing tasks (image optimization, image analysis, creation of control signals).

• No VHDL skills are required, thanks to the intuitive graphic user interface.

• When the FPGA design is created, it is possible to define which parameters can be changed for the runtime after the applet has been implemented.

• Convenient interfaces to image processing programs from third-party manufacturers.

For decision makers

• It is much faster to develop new applications with VisualApplets. In addition to straightforward dataflow-model design, the generated hardware code can be used in the target system immediately.

• Software developers and application engineers alike can quickly learn to use VisualApplets thanks to the intuitive operation and design method. Interdepartmental teamwork functions help integrate hardware and software programmers into joint projects.

• VisualApplets offers low initial investment costs and low maintenance costs since development projects can be adjusted continuously. High portability makes it possible to quickly switch to new hardware platforms.

• The design of specially developed image processing solutions is categorically protected by a conversion into binary code. It is possible to prevent unauthorized use of applets by limiting the executability only to defined FPGAs.

A quick route to image processing applications with VisualApplets 

When it was launched in 2006, VisualApplets received the International Vision Award. And for good reason:

• Save time and money with over 80 directly implementable sample applications

• Utilize the image processing library with over 200 operators

• Create unique libraries for frequently used image processing steps or import them from existing hardware code

• Graphically program and process data signals and connections to external interfaces (peripherals) to individualize trigger functions

Use advanced functions in VisualApplets

VisualApplets supports advanced functions that offer unique possibilities for design, debugging, and review of image processing applications.

Parameters library

Changes in the parameters of a VisualApplets design made by the system builder (even in protected hierarchical boxes) are consistently and automatically updated during runtime. This eliminates an elaborate and error-prone manual change of parameters throughout the whole design and/or the use of additional software. New values can also be calculated from different parameter values and transferred to other parameters throughout the entire design.