• Announcing the Winners of 'Experimenting with Sensor Fusion'

    The Experimenting with Sensor Fusion Design Challenge, sponsored by AMD Xilinx, and featuring Spartan-7 SP701 FPGA Evaluation Kit has officially concluded. We had 4 participants, including the Grand Prize Winner and Runner-up. Our judges have read each…
  • Experimenting with Sensor Fusion: Augmented Reality - Drone Pose (Blog #2)

    Table of Contents Introduction Project Description (Recap) Design Process Task #1: Implement an unaccelerated OpenCV application which handles the pose graphics. Task #2: Simplify the OpenCV functions. Task #3: Accelerate the OpenCV functions…
  • Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Thermal Vision, Compass and Environmental HUD monitor with the Spartan-7

    By incorporating a low resolution thermal imaging overlay using the MLX90640 thermal array, we have already integrated all the sensors planned into the system. Table of Contents Project Update Fusion of Sensors Viewing in the dark …
  • Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Compass and Environmental HUD monitor with the Spartan-7

    We added a hardware accelerated compass synthesized from C in Vitis HLS to our environmental HUD monitor on the AMD Xilinx SP701 development board. We have tested two different magnetometers: the ST's LSM9DS1 of the Digilent PmodNAV module and the Memsic…
  • Experimenting with Sensor Fusion: Augmented Reality - Drone Pose (Blog #1)

    Table of Contents Introduction Project Description Hardware Task Breakdown Graphics Video Capture and Display Pipeline Integration Current Status About Me Introduction Greetings Element14 community! This is my introductory…