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A DSL Compiler for Accelerating Image Processing Pipelines on FPGAsAuthors: Nitin chugh,Vinay Vasista,Suresh Purini,Uday Bondhugula Conference: PACT '16 - 2016 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Date: 2016-09-11 Report no: IIIT/TR/2016/26 AbstractThis paper describes an automatic approach to accelerate image processing pipelines using FPGAs. An image processing pipeline can be viewed as a graph of interconnected stages that processes images successively. Each stage typically performs a point-wise, stencil, or other more complex operations on image pixels. Recent efforts have led to the development of domain-specific languages (DSL) and optimization frameworks for image processing pipelines. In this paper, we develop an approach to map image processing pipelines expressed in the PolyMage DSL to efficient parallel FPGA designs. Our approach exploits reuse and available memory bandwidth (or chip resources) maximally. When compared to Darkroom, a state-of-the-art approach to compile highlevel DSL to FPGAs, our approach (a) leads to designs that deliver significantly higher throughput, and (b) supports a greater variety of filters. Furthermore, the designs we generate obtain an improvement even over pre-optimized FPGA implementations provided by vendor libraries for some of the benchmarks. Full paper: pdf Centre for Software Engineering Research Lab |
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