Pattern Recognition Group, Applied Physics Department, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Laboratory for Computer Architecture, Electrical Engineering Department, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Abstract:
The design of a fast, flexible and dynamically microprogrammable pipelined image processor is presented. The machine is especially suited, though not completely devoted, to perform local operations (up to 16 × 16) of both logical and arithmetic character on pictures, stored in a random access image memory in a 256 level grey scale. Separate parts of the machine take care of data manipulation and address generation. The machine's functioning is illustrated by discussing the way in which arithmetic N × N neighbourhood operations and binary 3 × 3 neighbourhood operations were implemented and finally the software supporting microprogram development and debugging and the run-time support software is described.