Electronic Resource
Springer
The journal of VLSI signal processing systems for signal, image, and video technology
9 (1995), S. 167-179
ISSN:
1573-109X
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
Abstract In this paper, a synthesis method (CAPSYS) of dedicated architectures is introduced. Its aim is to produce optimized systems derived from the algorithmic expression of a numerical application. The approach addresses the design of dedicated systems for applications that require high numerical computations. An efficient utilization of hardware resources is achieved through the use of vector processing with an SIMD implementation. The synthesis algorithm realizes simultaneously the design of SIMD structures and the generation of the microcode needed for implementing a software pipelining of operations of the source program. CAPSYS considers a generic model composed of both mechanisms required to manage the flow of controls in a SIMD machine and the description of a parallel data memory. All the synthesized architectures derive from this generic model. Capabilities of CAPSYS are illustrated through the design of an image convolution processor and a two-dimensional median filtering processor. This last example shows also an interesting feature of CAPSYS which permits to instantiate dedicated hardware components in the program of the target application: a hardware realization of conditional schemes in loops allows to get an efficient vectorization of the algorithm and an efficient dedicated architecture.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02407083
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