Title
An efficient FPGA-based dynamic partial reconfiguration design flow and environment for image and signal processing IP cores
Abstract
This paper describes a dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) design flow and environment for image and signal processing algorithms used in adaptive applications. Based on the evaluation of the existing DPR design flow, important features such as overall flexibility, application and standardised interfaces, host applications and DPR area/size placement have been taken into consideration in the proposed design flow and environment. Three intellectual property (IP) cores used in pre-processing and transform blocks of compression systems including colour space conversion (CSC), two-dimensional biorthogonal discrete wavelet transform (2-D DBWT) and three-dimensional Haar wavelet transform (3-D HWT) have been selected to validate the proposed DPR design flow and environment. Results obtained reveal that the proposed environment has a better solution providing: a scriptable program to establish the communication between the field programmable gate array (FPGA) with IP cores and their host application, power consumption estimation for partial reconfiguration area and automatic generation of the partial and initial bitstreams. The design exploration offered by the proposed DPR environment allows the generation of efficient IP cores with optimised area/speed ratios. Analysis of the bitstream size and dynamic power consumption for both static and reconfigurable areas is also presented in this paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.image.2010.04.005
Sig. Proc.: Image Comm.
Keywords
Field
DocType
design flow,host application,proposed design flow,existing dpr design flow,dynamic partial reconfiguration (dpr),dpr area,design exploration,ip core,image and signal processing,proposed environment,proposed dpr design flow,ip cores,fpga-based dynamic partial reconfiguration,proposed dpr environment,field programmable gate array (fpga),standardisation,image processing,color space,intellectual property,three dimensional,field programmable gate array,signal processing,orthogonal transformation,algorithm,discrete wavelet transform
Signal processing,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Design flow,Dynamic demand,Discrete wavelet transform,Haar wavelet,Bitstream,Control reconfiguration,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
5
Signal Processing: Image Communication
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.61
27
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
B. Krill1314.09
A. Ahmad2165.36
A. Amira31029.67
H. Rabah4314.95