FLIR Boson Camera Frame Grabber using FPGA

Simple FPGA based PCB to capture thermal images from a FLIR Boson camera on to a microSD. The project’s sources are available on Github. by Greg Davill

A small PCB designed to attach to the backside of the FLIR Boson Thermal Camera. The PCB facilitates configuration of the camera along with capturing data to an SD card.

This project is mostly an exercise in project-based learning. Instead of researching and reading about FPGAs, I want to create a project actually using them. Of course, this means that I’ll likely get things wrong, but that’s just part of the learning experience.

This project is a miniature FPGA based PCB to capture and save images from a camera stream. The FPGA used in the lattice ECP5, the board has 64Mbit of RAM and 8Mbit of FLASH. It runs a RISCV CPU internally to handle the processor centric tasks (UART, state machine, FatFS), but has dedicated hardware to handle the video stream and communicate to the SD card using 4bit SD protocol.

FLIR Boson Camera Frame Grabber using FPGA – [Link]

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