A 15 GFLOPS Parallel DSP System for Super High Definition Image Processing

Tomoko SAWABE, Tetsurou FUJII, Hiroshi NAKADA, Naohisa OHTA, Sadayasu ONO

Summary :

This paper describes a super high definition (SHD) image processing system we have developed. The computing engine of this system is a parallel processing system with 128 processing elements called NOVI- HiPIPE. A new pipelined vector processor is introduced as a backend processor of each processing element in order to meet the great computing power required by SHD image processing. This pipelined vector processor can achieve 120 MFLOPS. The 128 pipelined vector processors installed in NOVI- HiPIPE yield a total system peak performance of 15 GFLOPS. The SHD image processing system consists of an SHD image scanner, and SHD image storage node, a full color printer, a film recorder, NOVI- HiPIPE, and a Super Frame Memory. The Super Frame Memory can display a ful color moving image sequence at a rate of 60 fps on a CRT monitor at a resolution of 2048 by 2048 pixels. Workstations, interconnected through an Ethernet, are used to control these units, and SHD image data can be easily transfered among the units. NOVI- HiPIPE has a frame memory which can display SHD still images on a color monitor, therefore, one processed frame can be directly displayed. We are developing SHD image processing algorithms and parallel processing methodologies using this system.

• Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E75-A No.7 pp.786-793
• Publication Date: 1992/07/25
• Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Multidimensional Signal Processing)

Authors

Tomoko SAWABE
Tetsurou FUJII
Hiroshi NAKADA
Naohisa OHTA
Sadayasu ONO

Keyword

super high definition image, image processing system, parallel DSP system, digital signal processing, pipelined vector processor