Real-Time Computation of Local Neighborhood Functions in Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processors

This paper presents a systematic approach to the design of application-specific instruction-set processors for high speed computation of local neighborhood functions and intra-field deinterlacing. The intended application is real-time processing of high definition video. The approach aims at an effi...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems Vol. 20; no. 11; pp. 2031 - 2043
Main Authors: Aubertin, P., Langlois, J. M. P., Savaria, Y.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.11.2012
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Algorithms
Application specific processors
Application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs)
Applied sciences
Circuit properties
Computation
Computer architecture
deinterlacing
Design engineering
Design. Technologies. Operation analysis. Testing
Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits
Electronics
Exact sciences and technology
High definition video
Image edge detection
Integrated circuits
Integrated circuits by function (including memories and processors)
local neighborhood functions
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical models
Microwave circuits, microwave integrated circuits, microwave transmission lines, submillimeter wave circuits
Processors
Program processors
Real time
Real time systems
Semiconductor electronics. Microelectronics. Optoelectronics. Solid state devices
Studies
Very large scale integration
video processing
Application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs)
High resolution
Processor
Instruction sets
local neighborhood functions
Systolic network
Algorithm
Video signal processing
video processing
Kernel method
Very long instruction word
Pipeline network
Integrated circuit
Electric power consumption
Parallelism
Millimeter wave integrated circuits
Real time processing
Monolithic integrated circuit
Resource management
Custom circuit
deinterlacing
ISSN:1063-8210, 1557-9999
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Summary:This paper presents a systematic approach to the design of application-specific instruction-set processors for high speed computation of local neighborhood functions and intra-field deinterlacing. The intended application is real-time processing of high definition video. The approach aims at an efficient utilization of the available memory bandwidth by fully exploiting the data parallelism inherent to the target algorithm class. An appropriate choice of custom instructions and application-specific registers is used together with a very long instruction word architecture in order to mimic a pipelined systolic array. This leads to a processing speed close to the limit imposed by memory bandwidth constraints. For three intra-field deinterlacing algorithms and 2-D convolution with four kernel sizes, the design approach yields speedup factors between 36 and 1330, Area-Time (AT) product improvements between 12× and 243×, and energy consumption reduction factors between 13 and 262.
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ISSN:1063-8210
1557-9999
DOI:10.1109/TVLSI.2011.2170204