Interlayer communication mechanisms for a heterogeneous image processing system

Wing-Chiu Lau; Yu-Fai Fung; M. Fikret Ercan

doi:10.1117/12.279623

19 September 1997 Interlayer communication mechanisms for a heterogeneous image processing system

Wing-Chiu Lau, Yu-Fai Fung, M. Fikret Ercan

Proceedings Volume 3166, Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.279623
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A heterogeneous system for image processing was designed. The system consists of two layers with an array of DSPs in the low level layer and an array of PCs in the high level layer. The system resembles two stage multi-layers architecture. In the preprocessing phase, image data is delivered to the low level processors and operations are handled by using SPMD paradigm. The processed data is delivered to the high level processors where feature extraction and recognition tasks are performed. Apparently, the performance of this system is highly depended on communication mechanism used. The communication between two heterogenous processing layers is a critical design issue and is described in this paper. In our design, we have employed QuickRing. QuickRing provides a high transfer rate, 160 Mbytes/s, and supports multicast mode of data transmission that is suitable for broadcasting of data.

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Wing-Chiu Lau, Yu-Fai Fung, and M. Fikret Ercan "Interlayer communication mechanisms for a heterogeneous image processing system", Proc. SPIE 3166, Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing, (19 September 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.279623

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