• 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. Summary Blog

    Sensor Fusion for Firefighters Summary At the end of October 2022 I was selected to participate in the Experimenting with Sensor Fusion Challenge sponsored by element14 and Xilinx. Since we received the SP701 evaluation kit, it has been two months…
  • 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…
  • Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Environmental monitor heads-up display on Xilinx Spartan-7 SP701 development board

    The project is progressing well. I added some sensors to be able to monitor the environment through the heads-up display. I also built a customizable module with Vitis HLS to display up to 16-digit virtual seven-segment display modules overlaid on the…
  • 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…
  • Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Displaying heads-up video on the live feed

    In this blog, I rebuild from scratch the demo application from the Spartan-7 SP701 FPGA Evaluation Kit Demo Project designed by Adam Taylor ( adamtaylorcengfiet ). The challenging element of that project is to show a Heads-Up display during the live broadcast…
  • Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. AMD Xilinx SP701 - MIPI Video Pipe Camera to HDMI Display

    I'm still learning more about image processing before I start building my Experimenting with Sensor Fusion Challenge project. In this blog I share my experiences rebuilding the Xilinx MIPI CSI-2 RX subsystem IP Core sample application. The application…
  • Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Getting Started with the AMD Xilinx SP701

    In this post I describe my first contact with the AMD Xilinx SP701 evaluation board . I briefly review the contents of the evaluation kit. Then I connect the evaluation board for the first time and launch the execution of the built-in tests. The kit…
  • Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Introductory blog.

    This is the introductory blog of my participation in the Experimenting with Sensor Fusion Challenge . First of all, I would like to thank the sponsors: Element14 and AMD Xilinx, for choosing my application to participate in this challenge. In this blog…