A visual environment for real-time image processing in hardware (VERTIPH)

  • Authors:
  • C. T. Johnston;D. G. Bailey;P. Lyons

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand;Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand;Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Real-time video processing is an image-processing application that is ideally suited to implementation on FPGAs. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of a number of existing languages and hardware compilers that have been developed for specifying image processing algorithms on FPGAs. We propose VERTIPH, a new multiple-view visual language that avoids the weaknesses we identify. A VERTIPH design incorporates three different views, each tailored to a different aspect of the image processing system under development; an overall architectural view, a computational view, and a resource and scheduling view.