A complete development environment for image processing applications on adaptive computing systems

Adaptive computing has always been a topic of great interest, providing a means to automatically map an application to specific hardware. The hardware may be configured to a specific application, thereby providing optimal performance. However, the largest benefit is that this configuration may be performed optimally during program execution. Unfortunately, adaptive computing is a relatively new area of research, therefore imposing serious complications when developing applications for adaptive hardware. This problem limits ACS development to hardware experts, prohibiting application specialists, such as image processing experts, from utilizing these systems. This paper discusses a development environment that can bring the world of ACS application development to the IP expert with minimal hardware knowledge