Cameron - Optimized Compilation of Visual Programs for Image Processing on Adaptive Computing Systems (ACS)

摘要

This report states the work performed by the Cameron project. The goal of the Cameron project is to make FPGAs and other adaptive computer systems available to more applications programmers, by raising the abstraction level from hardware circuits to software algorithms. To this end, we have developed a variant of the C programming language and an optimizing compiler that maps high- level programs directly onto FPGAs, and have tested the language and compiler on a variety of image processing (and other) applications. A high level language with its one step compiler for Adaptive Computing Systems has been designed and implemented, and the performance of DoD relevant applications has been analyzed on commercial off-the-shelf reconfigurable hardware.