Image processing Application Development on Software Configurable Processor Array

TL;DR

This paper explores implementing image processing applications, specifically median filtering and color conversion, on software configurable processor arrays to enhance real-time performance and power efficiency.

Contribution

It demonstrates the implementation of median filtering and color conversion algorithms on software configurable processors, highlighting their suitability for real-time image processing tasks.

Findings

Median filtering on DVR achieves real-time processing.

Software configurable processors effectively accelerate image processing.

Power consumption is optimized for embedded applications.

Abstract

The software configurable processor finds best use in the embedded systems. These processors have onchip logic like FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) and thus can be configured to implement custom hardware functionality. The digital computing tasks that need to accelerate in hardware can be compiled down to a configuration file or bit stream that contains the information on how the logic components are configured and wired together. Video and image processing applications perform repeated pixel transformation and thus consume more power and the processing time. Software configurable processor best accelerates such compute intensive applications. This paper mainly focuses on the implementation of an image processing application called median filtering on a single processor and colour conversion algorithm on array of SCPs(Software Configurable Processors). Median filtering result on Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is discussed as a realtime application of SCP.