Configurable computing, where hardware resources are configured appropriately to match specific hardware designs, has recently demonstrated its ability to significantly improve performance for a wide range of computationintensive applications. With steady advances in silicon technology, as predicted by Moore’s Law, FieldProgrammable Gate Array (FPGA) technologies have enabled the implementation...

This paper, proposes a novel solution for a stereo vision machine based on the System-on-Programmable-Chip (SoPC) architecture. The SOPC technology provides great convenience for accessing many hardware devices such as DDRII, SSRAM, Flash, etc., by IP reuse. The system hardware is implemented in a single FPGA chip involving a 32-bit Nios II microprocessor, which is a configurable soft IP core i...

We evaluate the performance of a hardware/software architecture designed to perform a wide range of fast image processing tasks. The system architecture is based on hardware featuring a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) co-processor and a host computer. A LabVIEW host application controlling a frame grabber and an industrial camera is used to capture and exchange video data with the hardware...

The System-on-Programmable-Chip (SoPC) architecture to implement a stereo matching algorithm based on the sum of absolute differences (SAD) in a FPGA chip is proposed. The hardware implementation involves a 32-bit Nios II microprocessor, memory interfaces and stereo matching algorithm circuit module. The Nios II microprocessor is a configurable soft IP core in charge of managing the buffer of t...

A novel hardware architecture for fast spike sorting is presented in this paper. The architecture is able to perform feature extraction based on the Generalized Hebbian Algorithm (GHA). The employment of GHA allows efficient computation of principal components for subsequent clustering and classification operations. The hardware implementations of GHA features high throughput and low area costs...

The complexity of embedded systems is growing rapidly and demand for new approaches to meet the needs of businesses. the design of SoC and SOPC becomes increasingly complex as they incorporate more and more IP and peripheral controllers such as HDMI, Ethernet, wireless controller. For this reason the presence of an operating system is essential to manage all these features. This paper is the st...