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Application development with the FlexWAFE real-time stream processing architecture for FPGAs

Authors:

Amilcar Do Carmo Lucas,

Henning Sahlbach,

Sven Heithecker,

Rolf ErnstAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Volume 9, Issue 1

Article No.: 4, Pages 1 - 23

https://doi.org/10.1145/1596532.1596536

Published: 29 October 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The challenges posed by complex real-time digital image processing at high resolutions cannot be met by current state-of-the-art general-purpose or DSP processors, due to the lack of processing power. On the other hand, large arrays of FPGA-based accelerators are too inefficient to cover the needs of cost sensitive professional markets. We present a new architecture composed of a network of configurable flexible weakly programmable processing elements, Flexible Weakly programmable Advanced Film Engine (FlexWAFE). This architecture delivers both programmability and high efficiency when implemented on an FPGA basis. We demonstrate these claims using a professional next-generation noise reducer with more than 170G image operations/s at 80% FPGA area utilization on four Virtex II-Pro FPGAs. This article will focus on the FlexWAFE architecture principle and implementation on a PCI-Express board.

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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Volume 9, Issue 1

October 2009

184 pages

ISSN:1539-9087

EISSN:1558-3465

DOI:10.1145/1596532

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Published: 29 October 2009

Accepted: 01 February 2009

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Received: 01 June 2008

Published in TECS Volume 9, Issue 1

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