An FPGA-based flexible demo-board for endoscopic capsule design optimization

This work presents a flexible demo system, based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), that was specifically designed for testing all elements which have to be integrated in an endoscopic capsule, such as an image compression engine, a high-speed telemetric system, illumination system and inertial sensors.Several elements were tested and evaluated, obtaining a maximum frame rate of 19 fps over a transmission channel of 1.5 Mbit/s. The final configuration was chosen for the development of a miniaturized endoscopic capsule prototype.