SMILODON 10G EVO is a highly customizable and user-programmable, high-speed smart camera featuring a high-performance FPGA. It is a camera with a Zynq™ UltraScale+™ MPSoC-based Kria K26 SOM, a high-speed imaging sensor, and 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet. It includes high-performance Arm system-on-chip (SoC) technology, combined with high-speed industrial Gpixel imaging sensors.

Targeted for applications in laser triangulation, motion capture, industrial process automation, and industrial quality control, Smilodon 10G EVO includes a fully customizable and user-programmable, open-reference design for a high-speed, FPGA-based camera and application development system. Its emphasis is on an open hardware / software development model, high frame rates, real-time image processing on an FPGA, and modern graphical user interface support on the PC side.

A suite of versatile and high-performance tools for the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC is used to develop algorithms and process data in real time. Images are acquired by four different Gpixel GMAX25xx sensors with up to 48x LVDS interfaces (46 Gbps), achieving brilliant images at a very high speed. The on-board 4GB DDR4 memory with 19Gb/s of bandwidth enables complex buffered image processing.

The reference design can be easily edited with standard Vivado™ tools. Optomotive’s custom IP cores seamlessly integrate inside the Vivado IDE toolchain. A large portion of the FPGA programmable logic (PL) is free for the programming and development of new algorithms or the implementation of additional IP cores.

The 1.2GHz quad-core Arm Cortex®-A53 processor programmable subsystem runs a Linux OS with a custom-made EVO control and streaming stack (including a zero-copy TCP/IP stack). The SoC also includes dual 600MHz Cortex R5 processors that are free for user data processing. User applications or custom data post-processing can easily be added to an existing design.