MFAST: a single chip highly parallel image processing architecture

  • Authors:
  • G. G. Pechanek;M. Stojancic;S. Vassiliadis;C. J. Glossner

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICIP '95 Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Image Processing (Vol. 1)-Volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

IBM Mwave/sup TM/ has developed a radically new approach for real-time video and graphics processing. A scalable array of processing elements (PEs) is configured as a "folded array" for effective execution of matrix and transpose operations. The single chip Mwave Folded Array Signal Transform processor (MFAST) is a scalable DSP that provides 10+ billion 16-bit operations-per-second@50 MHz, sustainable during algorithm execution. This paper describes key M.F.A.S.T. elements and a bounded 18-22 cycle 8/spl times/8-pixel 2-D discrete cosine transform (DCT) program, verified on VHDL and functional simulator models.