On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 10:19 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> I'm looking at an application where I have 10 bit parallel data
> (representing image pixels) flying by at about 27M words per second. I'd
> like to capture particular words (under pic control, of course). About the
> only thing I can think of is a really fast synchronous counter (19 bits)
> driving a binary comparator driving a latch. To get this speed, I'd
> probably have to throw it onto an FPGA. Does anyone have any other ideas
> or comments? Does a single chip frame buffer exist that would capture this
> and let me look at particular pixels using spi? Other ideas?

At only 27MHz and 10 bits of data a CPLD is a viable solution.

I've used the 9536 CPLD with good success, my logan project uses it (and
connects it to a PIC):
http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/logan

TTYL

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