An embedded accelerator for real-time image processing

The paper presents an embedded reconfigurable accelerator called Xputer, comprising a novel kind of sequencer hardware (data sequencer). For many real-time signal processing, multimedia, and other high-performance applications this new data-driven architecture increases the performance of a single processor system enormously by integrating it as a co-processor for accelerating computation-intensive parts of an application. The reconfigurable architecture and programming environment is described. Its use is illustrated with an automotive application requiring real-time image processing.