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Aftermarket Camera Spots Bikes in the Driveway

Terry Costlow, Contributing Editor -- Design News, June 2, 2008

The aftermarket provides a great way to add options that were too expensive or didn't exist when a car was new. Sanyo Electric Co.'s CCA-BC200 Automotive Rear View Backup Camera System, the first aftermarket rearview system, provides accurate images, letting drivers see what is in their path during back-up maneuvers. Altera Corp.'s Cyclone II FPGAs and embedded Nios II processor minimize distortion in wide-angle views and hard-to-interpret perspectives. A single Nios II core can replace two standard DSP chips, reducing size and cost while providing real-time processing for transforming, filtering, smoothing and blending algorithms.

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