Two-level Partitioning of Image Processing Algorithms for the Parallel Map-oriented Machine

The partitioning of image processing algorithms with a novel hardware/software co-design framework (CoDe-X) is presented in this paper, where a new Xputer-architecture (parallel Map-oriented Machine) is used as universal accelerator based on a reconfigurable datapath hardware for speeding-up image processing applications. CoDe-X accepts C-programs and carries out both, the profiling-driven host/accelerator partitioning for performance optimization, and the resource-driven sequential/structural partitioning of the accelerator source code to optimize the utilization of its reconfigurable datapath resources.