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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"custom computing machine"”.
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Image Wavelet Compression Implementation Using a Run-Time Reconfigurable Custom Computing Machine
… (FPGAs) by using the run-time reconfigurable custom computing machine design tool Janus. The four routines implementing the IWC are discussed. The structure of Janus is introduced and the IWC implementation design framework to use Janus structure is described in detail. The Janus hardware …
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A Custom Computing Machine Solution for Simulation of Discretized Domain Physical Systems
… heat transfer simulation system using a Splash-2 Custom Computing Machine (CCM). This application was implemented as a proof of concept for utilizing CCMs in the simulation of physical systems. This paper discusses physical systems simulation and the need for discretizing the domain of such …
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Implementation of coarse-to-fine visual tracking on a custom computing machine
… of two visual tracking systems on a custom computing machine based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The implementations apply a coarse-to-fine search on Gaussian pyramids constructed from the images generated by a camera. One system tracks a target of size 16x16 in an image …
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Implementation of a 2-D fast Fourier transform on an FPGA-based computing platform
… for the fast Fourier transform on an FPGA-based custom computer. The computation of a 2-D FFT requires O(N²log₂N ) complex floating point arithmetic operations for an NxN image. By implementing the FFT algorithm on a custom computing machine (CCM) called Splash-2, a computation speed of at least …
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Splash-2 shared-memory architecture for supporting high level language compilers
… come about is the reconfigurable processor-based custom computing machine (CCM). CCMs use field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as their processing cores, giving them the flexibility of software systems with performance comparable to that of dedicated custom hardware. Hardware description …
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Predicting execution behavior for codesign synthesis using static analysis
… The tool can be integrated into a compiler for a custom computing machine for codesign synthesis. The timing information can be used effectively by the code optimizer to identify portions of the code to be executed in hardware from the portions to be executed in software. The problem of loose time …
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A Design Methodology for Creating Programmable Logic-based Real-time Image Processing Hardware
… The destination hardware architecture is a Custom Computing Machine (CCM) that contains multiple Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips. FPGA chips provide gate-level programmability for the hardware architecture. Sophisticated software development tools, called the TRAVERSE development …
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Simulation of an Implementation and Evaluation of the Layered Radio Architecture
… area are critical. Recently, the Configurable Computing Lab at Virginia Tech developed a new breed of reprogrammable processor which they called "custom computing machine" (CCM). Representing a dramatic departure from traditional architectures used for baseband processing solutions, CCMs …
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Design and Implementation of a Soft Radio Architecture for Reconfigurable Platforms
… reconfigurable hardware, like FPGAs. An Custom Computing Machine (CCM), called Stallion that supports fast run time reconfiguration, has been developed at Virginia Tech. This dissertation describes the deficiencies of existing commercial reconfigurable hardware and shows how the Stallion …
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Using an FPGA-Based Processing Platform in an Industrial Machine Vision System
… thesis describes the development of a commercial machine vision system as a case study for utilizing the Modular Reprogrammable Real-time Processing Hardware (MORRPH) board. The commercial system described in this thesis is based on a prototype system that was developed as a test-bed for …