Hero Banner image

Sensor Interfaces

FPGA Sensor Interface Solutions for Edge AI Applications

FPGA-based Edge AI sensor solutions combine scalable performance, PQC-enabled security, and Artificial Intelligence for a variety of real-time edge applications. Altera FPGA devices’ flexible I/Os aggregate a number and variety of audio, video, SoC, or other interfaces for pre-processing and subsequent computing within the FPGA or to external devices (i.e., GPU, CPU).

Why Altera FPGAs for Edge AI Applications

Scalable Performance Spectrum

Altera’s FPGAs offer a broad spectrum of features and performance, enabling Edge AI sensor bridge solutions from 1-400 Gbps.

Universal Sensor Interface Support

Altera FPGAs enable a vast array of sensors for many Edge AI applications, including MIPI, JESD204, LVDS, SPI, and CAN.

Field Upgradeable Flexibility

An FPGA is field upgradable, capable of H/W and S/W changes, not possible with most ASIC, ASSP, or microcontroller devices.

100G Sensor Bridge Platform

Stratix® 10 Sensor Processing Kit Interface to NVIDIA's Holoscan Sensor Bridge

The Stratix 10 Sensor Processing Kit is a 100G Ethernet sensor interface platform powered by Altera’s Stratix 10 TX FPGA. It is designed to support real-time streaming of sensor data to GPU memory using NVIDIA Hololink IP and GPUDirect RDMA.

Request Access to Altera's Stratix 10 Sensor Bridge Example Design

Learn about the kit details, supplied by Altera partner, Terasic.
25G Sensor Bridge Development Platform

Agilex™ 5 Holoscan Sensor Bridge - MIPI to 25GbE System Reference Design

This design demonstrates MIPI streaming via Holoscan Sensor Bridge IP over 25G Ethernet. It combines a 4Kp60 Multi-Sensor Camera with a new Quartus® Platform Designer component for Holoscan Sensor Bridge IP, using the Agilex™ 5 FPGA and SoC E-Series Modular Dev. Kit (Group A Device). 

For access to the example design (coming soon), please contact your local Altera Salesperson.

Request Access to Example Design
10G Sensor Bridge Development Platform

Agilex 5 Holoscan Sensor Bridge - MIPI to 10GbE System Reference Design

This design demonstrates MIPI streaming via Holoscan Sensor Bridge IP over 10G Ethernet. It combines a 4K Multi-Sensor Camera with the Holoscan Sensor Bridge IP, using the Agilex 5 FPGA E-Series Premium Dev Kit.
For access to the example design, please visit the Altera FPGA GitHub site.

Visit FPGA GitHub Site

Heterogeneous Computing in an Edge AI Vision System

GPU + FPGA provides numerous benefits to Edge AI vision systems, including low-latency, AI-features, high-performance, and support for many types of cameras suitable for industrial, retail, medical, and other use-cases.
Gidel’s FantoVision Family is an Edge AI Vision-based Frame Grabber Systems utilizing Altera FPGAs. Each FantoVision product integrates a Jetson Orin NX with an Arria 10 FPGA, forming a heterogeneous edge AI vision system that splits responsibilities between GPU, CPU, and FPGA. The FPGA is not a passive peripheral but a Smart I/O Engine