Summary by e-mail to Sylvain:

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DDR2 -- 667MT/s or 800MT/s speeds. The MT/s refers to mega-transfers/second, where one transfer depends on the width of the memory, but 16 bits is the widest (which we would use), so this really corresponds to 16-bit pixels/second.

DDR3 -- 1333MT/s or 1600MT/s speeds. More or less state-of-the-art. We have used this memory, but only on the more expensive Virtex-6 class FPGAs.

The most conservative would be DDR2-667. If the data goes in and out of the memory once, then we have a throughput of 333 Mpixels/sec or about 110 Mpixels/sec per camera. We are digitizing at 160 Mpixels/sec, so if we agree that for Mode 0 we discard every other frame, and for other modes we do the binning first, then we should be OK with this memory technology.

Another way of looking at it is that we propose to transmit the data to the computer over a 3Gbit/sec link (300MBytes/sec). The throughput of DDR2-667 is about 667 MBytes/sec, or twice this amount.

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