Mentor’s DxDesigner and Expedition schematic capture and printed circuit board tools were chosen to implement a custom high speed signal processing board containing many high pin count Field Programmable Gate Arrays and many high speed serial connections with data rates over 2 Gigasamples/sec. The methodology used to place the parts and route the board involved the interaction of both the DxDes...

The paper presents a study on the impact of using SIMD (Singe Instruction Multiple Data) techniques and architectures in low level image processing. Speedups obtained on a SIMD parallel architecture (IMAPVISION board) and a single Intel MMX processor computer are presented for different low-level image processing operators. While the IMAP-Vision system performs better because of the large numbe...

We discuss in this article the positive prospects and the pitfalls of the Small Robots League of RoboCup in respect to on-board control and other on-board features for the players. For this purpose, we introduce a classiication of teams based on a general set of components for players. With this background, we motivate the importance of fostering on-board features for the players and present be...

Instruments proposed to satisfy measurement objectives of future NASA AOs, and the NRC Decadal Survey missions, will need on-board processing technologies to support autonomy, operations, and science data processing. Traditionally, payload design flows down from measurement objectives, to algorithm design, to realization on a computational platform with limited capabilities. We will describe a ...

The Virus Game (or simply Virus) is a turnbased two player perfect information game which is based on the growth and spread of competing viruses. This paper describes a CPU efficient and easy to use architecture for developing and testing AI for Virus and similar games and for running a tournament between AI players. We investigate move generation, board representation and tree search for the V...