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International Workshop on Field Programmable Logic and Applications

FPL 1994: Field-Programmable Logic Architectures, Synthesis and Applications pp 156–167Cite as

Image processing on a custom computing platform

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Custom computing platforms are emerging as a class of computing engine that not only can provide near application-specific computational performance, but also can be configured to accommodate a wide variety of tasks. Due to vast computational needs, image processing computing platforms are traditionally constructed either by using costly application-specific hardware to support real-time image processing, or by sacrificing real-time performance and using a general-purpose engine. The Splash-2 custom computing platform is a general-purpose platform not designed specifically for image processing, yet it can cost-effectively deliver real-time performance on a wide variety of image applications. This paper describes an image processing system based on the Splash-2 custom computing engine, along with performance results from a variety of image processing tasks extracted from a working laboratory system. The application design process used for these image processing tasks is also examined.

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  1. The Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 24061-0111, Blacksburg, Virginia

    Peter M. Athanas & A. Lynn Abbott

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Reiner W. Hartenstein Michal Z. Servít

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Athanas, P.M., Abbott, A.L. (1994). Image processing on a custom computing platform. In: Hartenstein, R.W., Servít, M.Z. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic Architectures, Synthesis and Applications. FPL 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 849. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58419-6_86

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