Simulation-framework for purely digital CNN/MRF-architectures

Any kind of hardware-relevant modeling, simulation and analysis of purely digital and massively parallel architectures, which is based on CNN/MRF processing principles is a time consuming, computing resources intensive, fault-prone and complex task. Until now there is no industrially qualified toolkit available to systematically support these tasks in a single closed environment. In this paper we present a novel simulation-framework for purely digital CNN/MRF processing systems. The unique modeling, hardware-relevant simulation and analysis capabilities unified in this simulation-framework allows it to systematically investigate (1) the massively parallel processing dynamic of digital CNN/MRF devices, (2) the model´s convergence behavior and (3) complete CNN/MRF systems with an application-specific size. The paper is finalized by simulation results demonstrating the ability of the framework to handle CNN/MRF processing systems of realistic size and complexity. This manifests the industrial relevance of the proposed CNN/MRF simulation-framework.