Design and Implementation of a New Efficient Embedded Image System

This article presents a new design and implementation of a robust and efficient embedded image system which can perform image acquisition, data saving and communication. The system hardware consists of processors of CPLD and ARM, an OV7620 digital camera, an ISSI SRAM and some peripheral interfaces. The key part of the software is the usage of analogous DMA storage and processing technology which makes the image system have a higher efficiency. A memory allocation algorithm is developed to maximize parallel data access and make the utmost use of ARM's processing ability, thus improving the system performance. Furthermore, a simple practical binary image processing algorithm is developed to enhance the performance of image processing in this article. The experimental result shows that the proposed design approach for a low cost embedded image system can achieve high performance, robustness and efficiency.