A novel reconfigurable multiprocessor for robot vision

Author

Bhandarkar, Suchendra M. ; Arabnia, Hamid R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Georgia Univ., Athens, GA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

8-13 May 1994

Firstpage

2857

Abstract

A novel reconfigurable architecture based on a multi-ring multiprocessor network is described. The reconfigurability of the architecture is shown to result in a low network diameter and also a low degree of connectivity for each node in the network. The mathematical properties of the network topology and the hardware for the reconfiguration switch are described. Primitive parallel operations on the network topology are described and analyzed. The architecture is shown to contain a single 1-factor of the Boolean hypercube in any given configuration. A large class of algorithms for the Boolean n-cube and the 2-D mesh is shown to map efficiently on the proposed architecture without loss of performance. The architecture is shown to be well suited for a number of problems in robot vision

Keywords

Hough transforms; hypercube networks; multiprocessing systems; network topology; reconfigurable architectures; robot vision; 2D mesh; Boolean hypercube; Hough transform; connectivity; multiring multiprocessor network; network diameter; network topology; primitive parallel operations; reconfigurable architecture; reconfiguration switch; robot vision; Computer architecture; Computer science; Hardware; Hypercubes; Network topology; Performance loss; Reconfigurable architectures; Robot vision systems; Switches; Systolic arrays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5330-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1994.350905

Filename

350905