Pentium-based embedded vision engine gets faster

Available now from Firstsight Vision, the Coreco Imaging Mamba 100 embedded vision engine has more than twice the processing power of its predecessor.

Available now from Firstsight Vision, the Coreco Imaging Mamba 100 Embedded Vision Engine has more than twice the processing power of its predecessor.

18 months ago Coreco Imaging launched the worlds first embedded vision engine based on the Pentium II - the Mamba-66.

By adopting the road map of the Intel architecture Coreco Imaging broke away from the traditional embedded vision engines concept based on DSP and proprietary hardware and adopted a platform with a clear roadmap of doubling speed every two years and keeping code compatibility over long periods and with host computers.

The Mamba 100 builds on the success of the original Mamba by moving to Pentium III technology with an enhanced 800Mbyte/s of memory bandwidth and clock speeds in excess of 1GHz.

Featuring two 200Mbyte/s CAB interfaces, datarates can exceed the limitation of the host PCI bus and can be streamed from multiple acquisition devices through a network of up to 32 Pentium III processors.

All have their own dedicated memory removing any bus or memory bottleneck.

Adopting the Embedded NT operating system full code compatibility with host application code is maintained without the overhead of memory paging found in desktop flavours of NT.

This improves real time latency over 10 times.

Mamba is ideal in number of situations.

Where the datarate exceeds the PCI bus limit, where the host needs to take care of other critical tasks or where the processing needed exceeds that of a memory shared multiprocessor machine.

Two software environments are available with the Mamba: Sapera, ideal for programmers which only want to code at the C/C++ level, or WIT, a fully open graphical programming environment which enables algorithms to be deployed across multiple Mambas at the click of a mouse.

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