Silicon Software releases Version 3 of its award winning graphical development environment, VisualApplets, as a 64bit version with new functions and extensions. VisualApplets simplifies the programming of image processing applications on FPGA processors (Field-Programmable Gate Array) for frame grabbers, industrial cameras and image processing devices via data flow models, without using a hardware description language (HDL). VisualApplets allows the programming of FPGA processors to become user friendly, enabling new industry specific image processing applications in real-time and thus saving computer resources.

The VisualApplets development environment allows companies of all sizes to use FPGA processors for their image processing needs. Both hardware and software developers as well as application engineers are able to develop individual image processing applications in a short timeframe using the intuitive data flow model user interface. Image processing designs can be created from more than 200 operators, which are grouped into libraries, and can be easily transferred onto frame grabbers, cameras and image processing devices. Should the design change, the software easily recalculates the available resources in the FPGA.
FPGA processors, which are excellent for image processing tasks, process the data with a very high level of parallelism and therefore guarantee the necessary throughput. All programming is executed in real-time within the FPGA hardware. The VisualApplets development environment was awarded the Vision Award 2006, in the first year of its launch ten years ago and now gets its next important development step with the new version 3.