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Hello, I'm a newbie in the field of Embedded systems. I have a at91sam9263 board with me and project deals with Real Time Image Processing. I want to know how to integrate OpenCV and uvision. Can any one throw up some light on this...
"SIMD may be nice, but there are a huge number of reasons why people may not need, or want to pay for, a processor with the Intel SIMD instructions". Intel processors like Atom are much expensive than the AT91SAM9260, but this is not the case with the OMAP3550 that the beagleboard has. I mentioned INTEL because they wrote OpenCV and they know best how the library has to be optimized.
"When you don't need the extra speed, you may want to optimize for cost, or current consumption, or PCB surface area, or long-term availability" This is a good general advice. But if you do OMAP3550 vs. AT91SAM9260 analysis in all those points, I would like to know in which of them the AT91SAM9260 is better for this kind of application.
"When you don't need the extra speed, you may want to optimize for cost" This is not always true in the embedded world, not always a more powerful processor means that will cost you more. Do you know how much an AT91SAM9260 board cost? You will get a surprise if you compare prices, I have some examples showing that AT91SAM9260 in some cases is more expensive and is just a toy compared to the Cortex A8+TI Dsp processing power. Also, I would like to add that there is a big risk, if your requirements change in the future and your processing power is tight at the present.