A high performance pipelined architecture for measurement and monitoring of multiple sensor signals

A high performance pipelined architecture with hardware sharing for measurement and monitoring of signals generated by sensors that measure physical quantities is presented. The three segments in the pipeline are sample acquisition, sample processing, and output monitoring. The advantages of a pipelined architecture over a replicated single CPU system are noted, and some important issues involved in the design of pipelined system are discussed. A model for estimating the computing power required and input-to-output delay incurred for an application is presented