<p>Ogg Vorbis is a fairly new and growing audio format, often used for online distribution of music and internet radio stations for streaming audio. It is considered to be better than MP3 in both quality and compression and in the same league as for example AAC. In contrast with many other formats, like MP3 and AAC, Ogg Vorbis is patent and royalty free.</p><p>The purpose of this thesis project was to investigate how the C6416 DSP processor and a Stratix II FPGA could be connected to each other and work together as co-processors and using an Ogg Vorbis decoder as implementation example.</p><p>A fixed-point decoder called Tremor (developed by Xiph.Org the creator of the Vorbis I specification), has been ported to the DSP processor and an Ogg Vorbis player has been developed. Tremor was profiled before performing the software / hardware partitioning to decide what parts of the source code of Tremor that should be implemented in the FPGA to off-load and accelerate the DSP.</p><p> </p>

Ogg Vorbis is a fairly new and growing audio format, often used for online distribution of music and internet radio stations for streaming audio. It is considered to be better than MP3 in both quality and compression and in the same league as for example AAC. In contrast with many other formats, like MP3 and AAC, Ogg Vorbis is patent and royalty free. The purpose of this thesis project was to investigate how the C6416 DSP processor and a Stratix II FPGA could be connected to each other and work together as co-processors and using an Ogg Vorbis decoder as implementation example. A fixed-point decoder called Tremor (developed by Xiph.Org the creator of the Vorbis I specification), has been ported to the DSP processor and an Ogg Vorbis player has been developed. Tremor was profiled before performing the software / hardware partitioning to decide what parts of the source code of Tremor that should be implemented in the FPGA to off-load and accelerate the DSP.

Αντικείμενο της εργασίας αποτελεί η ανάπτυξη συστήματος βασισμένου σε DSP για τη λήψη και επεξεργασία εικόνας υψηλής ανάλυσης με δυνατότητα ρύθμισης της γωνίας λήψης μέσα στο χώρο μέσω πρωτότυπου μηχανισμού που κινείται με τη βοήθεια δύο βηματικών κινητήρων και ελέγχου της διάταξης από απόσταση μέσω σύνδεσης δικτύου με το πρωτόκολλο TCP. Η δικτυακή επικοινωνία, επεξεργασία, μεταφορά και αποθήκευση των δεδομένων εικόνας στηρίζονται στην κάρτα DSK TMS320C6416, που βασίζεται στον DSP 6416 της Texas Instruments, ενώ ο έλεγχος της κάμερας και η οδήγηση των βηματικών κινητήρων επιτυγχάνονται με τη χρήση της θυγατρικής κάρτας DSK-EYE Gigabit, πυρήνα της οποίας αποτελεί ένα FPGA της οικογένειας Cyclone II της ALTERA και περιλαμβάνει τον OV5610 αισθητήρα εικόνας 5.2 Megapixel. Ένα γραφικό περιβάλλον επιτρέπει στο χρήστη της εφαρμογής τον έλεγχο της διάταξης και τη ρύθμιση των παραμέτρων για τη λήψη και επεξεργασία εικόνας ανάμεσα στις οποίες είναι η ρύθμιση φωτεινότητας, κέρδους, ανάλυσης της εικόνας, κατεύθυνσης και γωνίας κίνησηςγια κάθε κινητήρα ξεχωριστά και επιλογή του αλγορίθμου επεξεργασίας της αρχικής εικόνας. / A remote controlled DSP-based system for high resolution image capturing and processing, featuring 2-axis rotational motion was developed using the TMS320C6416 DSK board, which is based on TMS320C6416T DSP. A prototype device holding a pair of bipolar stepper motors and a gear set providing proper gear ratio and holding torque, is used for motion transmission to the 5.2 Megapixel Omnivision OV5610 camera module, connected to the Bitec DSK-EYE Gigabit daughtercard, which is built around a FPGA of the ALTERA Cyclone II family. The remote operation of the whole system is carried out over a network connection via the dedicated Ethernet adapter of the DSK-EYE board, using the TCP/IP protocol. The device is controlled by means of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) which grants access to some key parameters of the image sensoring process, allowing for easy adjustment of gain and exposure values, stepper motor control and image processing algorithm selection