The product
Uster® Fabriscan, a complex optical inspection and image processing system capable of real time cloth inspection at speeds of up to 120m/minute

TTP’s role

Fabriscan – jointly developed with Zellweger Uster. Involved high performance hardware design; algorithm development – neural networks; image processing software.  TTP also developed the Aurora processing board, incorporating 18 parallel, 32-bit DSPs and Unix based system software. 

Key facts

  • Heavy duty, leading edge processing power – equivalent to 30 desktop PCs
  • Peak processing power >43,000 MIPs
  • Resolves to 0.3mm features
  • Inspects 3.6m wide fabric, moving at 120m/min