The ETCA Data-Flow Functional Computer for Real-Time Image Processing
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This paper presents a data ow computer constituted of a large array of data ow processors and programmed using a functional language and its application to real time image processing The approach integrates tightly and e ciently the data ow architecture principle and the functional pro gramming concept It leads to a very simple and reg ular hardware It also provides a very e cient and user friendly software interface for application devel opment It remains applicable in systems that includes processors of di erent granularity An experimental system including low level custom data ow processors MBytes s mil lion operations per second and T transputers was built and several image processing algorithms were run in real time at digital video speed
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