ACM HotMobile 2013 poster: RazorCam: a prototyping environment for video communication

Design verification takes 80 % of times in the flow design of hardware/software applications. To reduce this duration, subsequent transformations are performed across different levels of abstraction until the final implementation. We propose a rapid prototyping camera system based on FPGAs, which allows designs to be explored and evaluated in realistic environments. Our focus is on the design of a generic embedded hardware/software architecture with a symbolic representation of the input application to allow a programmability at a very high abstraction level. The hardware/software partitioning is facilitated through the integration of OpenCV and SystemC in the same environment for rapid simulation and OpenCV and Linux in the run-time environment.