HARDWARE-SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR ACCELERATION OF IMAGE PROCESSING OPERATIONS

摘要

The paper presents design and architecture of a hybrid software/hardware system for acceleration of image processing. The front end consists of a software interface that defines the basic data structures and exchange mechanisms for connecting to external software. The back end consists of a hardware board which is responsible for acceleration of image computations. Thus, the two main components follow the handle/body concept, which allows modifications to the implementation without changes in interfaces.. This flexibility allows for better resource usage, and faster development, and facilitates system extensions. In this paper we present the design and implementation issues for the system, as well as discuss its run-time performance for the selected image operations.