Linear array processors with multiple access modes memory for real-time image processing
✍ Scribed by H Rabah; H Mathias; S Weber; E Mozef; C Tanougast
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 448 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1077-2014
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✦ Synopsis
This paper presents the linear array processors with multiple access modes memory system (LAPMAMM), an efficient monodimensional parallel architecture for real-time image processing. This architecture is composed of n processors and n 2 memory modules. These memory modules have multiple access modes: RAM, FIFO, normal CAM and interactive CAM modes. They are associated to a linear array of VLIW processors which are interconnected using a simple tree network that ensures an OðlogðnÞÞ data propagation time. The practical working of the architecture is explained using the example of a labeling algorithm developed for LAPMAMM. A hardware simulation of a LAPMAMM prototype has been carried out to test its performance in low and intermediate level image processing. The simulation results of the VHDL model are presented.