High-resolution and high-speed digital cameras are taking on a critical role in military and aerospace applications as the industry strives to achieve real-time image acquisition requirements while meeting an ever increasing demand for more “pixels on target.” The development of new larger and faster image sensors and the applications that they enable means that higher speeds are required to acquire and process the data. The bandwidth provided by the transport mechanism (the interface between the camera and host processor) often becomes the limiting factor. Other characteristics such as distance, latency, power, connectivity and reliability are considered equally as critical in many demanding vision applications.