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A Parallel FPGA Implementation of Image Convolution

Image convolution is a common algorithm that can be found in most graphics editors. It is used to filter images by multiplying and adding pixel values with coefficients in a filter kernel. Previous research work have implemented this algorithm on different platforms, such as FPGAs, CUDA, C etc. The performance of these implementations have then been compared against each other. When the algorithm has been implemented on an FPGA it has almost always been with a single convolution. The goal of this thesis was to investigate and in the end present one possible way to implement the algorithm with 16 parallel convolutions on a Xilinx Spartan 6 LX9 FPGA and then compare the performance with results from previous work. The final system performs better than multi-threaded implementations on both a GPU and CPU.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-128615
Date January 2016
CreatorsStröm, Henrik
PublisherLinköpings universitet, Datorteknik
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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