An embedded accelerator for real-time image processing

Author

Hartenstein, Reiner ; Becker, Jürgen ; Kress, Rainer

Author_Institution

Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany

fYear

1996

fDate

12-14 Jun 1996

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

88

Abstract

The paper presents an embedded reconfigurable accelerator called Xputer, comprising a novel kind of sequencer hardware (data sequencer). For many real-time signal processing, multimedia, and other high-performance applications this new data-driven architecture increases the performance of a single processor system enormously by integrating it as a co-processor for accelerating computation-intensive parts of an application. The reconfigurable architecture and programming environment is described. Its use is illustrated with an automotive application requiring real-time image processing

Keywords

coprocessors; image processing; performance evaluation; programming environments; real-time systems; reconfigurable architectures; road vehicles; software tools; traffic engineering computing; Xputer; automotive application; computation-intensive; coprocessor; data sequencer; data-driven architecture; embedded accelerator; embedded reconfigurable accelerator; high-performance applications; multimedia; programming environment; real-time image processing; real-time signal processing; sequencer hardware; single processor system; system performance; Acceleration; Computer architecture; Coprocessors; Hardware; High performance computing; Image processing; Multimedia systems; Real time systems; Reconfigurable architectures; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real-Time Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Eighth Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

L´Aquila

ISSN

1068-3070

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7496-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMWRTS.1996.557821

Filename

557821