Hardware/software co-design of video processing applications on a reconfigurable platform

The use of a reconfigurable platform, based on the Zynq-7000 Xilinx family, for hardware/software co-design of video processing applications is described in this work. The computing capability of ARM processors included in the device allows performing I/O and processing task by using conventional software libraries. On the other hand, the possibility to accelerate certain tasks through specific hardware implementation on the available programmable logic makes it easier to compare different design alternatives. The advantages of the proposed platform are demonstrated by using different design flows to implement some spatial filters usually required in video processing systems.