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Valde Systems VS151

Valde Systems has introduced the first camera designed specifically for outdoor autonomous vehicle operation. Now you don't have to choose between cheap, poor-quality security cameras and expensive, but fragile, machine-vision cameras.

The VS151 combines convenient size, ruggedness, and capability with a price you can afford.

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Software

The vision processors from Valde Systems can be thought of as "hardware platforms" for your image-processing applications. Customers may have existing software that they wish to run on our processors and as a result realize improvements in performance, size, weight and power consumption.

Valde Systems vision processors come with our standard Board Support Package (BSP) software, along with some basic examples, like edge detectors, which are designed to help customers understand the software development process. To download the source code and developer's guide, please visit our download section.

The most popular development environment to develop applications for our products is Code Composer Studio (CCS) from Texas Instruments. This Integrated Development Environment (IDE) allows developers to watch variables and debug in real time, along with a compiler specifically for the DSP. This development package is fully supported by Texas Instruments and Valde Systems, and our processors come with all the configuration files needed to build applications in CCS.

CCS interfaces directly to our vision processors via a hardware emulation JTAG cable. This cable plugs directly into our hardware and is the main method of interaction. Both the hardware JTAG cable and the CCS software are available either directly from Texas Instruments or through Valde Systems. These are one-time purchases, which can be used for all future projects. Colleges and universities are eligible for discounts of up to 50% off regular prices.

Library Functions

Beyond the basic BSP software, there is a growing collection of library functions developed by both Valde Systems and our customers to run on our processors. These functions have been made available to all customers in order to develop a repository of functions that may be useful to others. Valde Systems encourages contributing to this repository, and offers discounts to customers who do so. Please see our download section for more information.