A 12.8 GFLOPS multi-DSP system for super high definition image processing

Author

Sawabe, Tomoko ; Fujii, Tetsurou ; Nakada, Hiroshi ; Ohta, Naohisa ; Ono, Sadayasu

Author_Institution

NTT Transmission Syst. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1992

fDate

23-26 Mar 1992

Firstpage

533

Abstract

A multicomputer-type parallel processing system has been developed that offers a peak performance of 12.8 GFLOPS. This system is called NOVI-II HiPIPE, and was designed for super-high-definition (SHD) image processing. SHD image is a new image medium and its resolution is higher than that of HDTV. Because SHD image processing requires computing power that exceeds the ability of any single digital signal processor (DSP), current or anticipated, NOVI-II HiPIPE uses a multicomputer-type parallel processing architecture. A 100-MFLOPS vector processor serves as the backend processor of each processing element. The current version of NOVI-II HiPIPE uses 128 mesh connected processing elements and 128 vector processors. The configuration and performance of NOVI-II HiPIPE are described

Keywords

digital signal processing chips; image processing equipment; parallel architectures; vector processor systems; 100 MFLOPS; 12.8 GFLOPS; NOVI-II HiPIPE; backend processor; digital signal processor; mesh connected processing elements; multi-DSP system; multicomputer-type parallel processing system; super high definition image processing; vector processor; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processors; HDTV; Image processing; Image resolution; Parallel processing; Signal resolution; Vector processors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1992. ICASSP-92., 1992 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0532-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1992.226158

Filename

226158