Title :
Image processing VLSI design through functional match between algorithms and architecture
Author :
Allart, E. ; Zavidovique, B.
Author_Institution :
Sodima/Etca, Cachan, France
Abstract :
The authors describe a coherent methodology to build cost-effective and powerful tailored integrated circuits for efficient ´vision computer´. They studied the image processing algorithms and found that most of these algorithms could be expressed as an arrangement of simple functions. To validate this approach, they outline special-purpose integrated computer for real-time applications. The computer is designed to be handled by users who are not specialists in computer architecture. With only one high-level language, it will make it possible to determine whether a given combination of precisely specified components will have the requested behavior.<>
Keywords :
VLSI; computer architecture; computer vision; computerised picture processing; VLSI design; computer architecture; computer vision; computerised picture processing; functional match; image processing algorithms; methodology; real-time; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Image processing; Integrated circuit modeling; Integrated circuit technology; Parallel architectures; Process design; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1988., IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Espoo, Finland
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1988.15325
