Comparison of High Speed Vision Communication Standards

Abstract: Future development in high performance cameras and machine vision applications results in a need for faster vision communication standards. This thesis compares four high speed vision communication standards on the machine vision market. The standards considered are CoaXPress, GigE Vision over 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Camera Link HS and USB3 Vision, all which are capable of higher speeds than their forerunners. The standards are compared in general based on the theory available and with the help of the voting systems Borda count and the Kemeny-Young method. From the result of the general comparison two of the standards are chosen, CoaXPress and 10 GigE Vision, for an in depth comparison. The vision communication standards are tested on a Xilinx ZC706 development board for the Zynq-7000 SoC where resource allocation and power consumption are measured. The thesis gives an overview of the performance of the standards and with no obvious winner the voting system gives an unbiased comparison of the standards with interesting results.