A dynamic computing platform for image and video processing applications

Author

Llamocca, Daniel ; Pattichis, Marios ; Vera, G. Alonzo

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

1-4 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

412

Lastpage

416

Abstract

We present a dynamic computing platform that allows for rapid prototyping of image and video processing applications systems. Here, an Ethernet MAC is used to stream video in and out of the FPGA. The output video is also sent to a video port for display. The system features a simple way to specify the dynamic video processing modules that are going to be multiplexed in time. The dynamic control is user-specified in the embedded processor´s software routine. We test the platform on two video processing applications, where the system´s overall performance is evaluated as a function of the reconfiguration rate.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; image processing; local area networks; video signal processing; Ethernet MAC; FPGA; dynamic computing platform; embedded processor; image processing applications; video processing applications; video streaming; Application software; Communication system control; Coprocessors; Embedded software; Ethernet networks; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Resource management; Runtime; Switches; FPGA; dynamic partial reconfiguration; hardware; video processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 2009 Conference Record of the Forty-Third Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5825-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.2009.5469844

Filename

5469844