Citation
Gallego Galán, Ángel and Mora de Sambricio, Javier and Otero Marnotes, Andres and López, Blanca and Torre Arnanz, Eduardo de la and Riesgo Alcaide, Teresa
(2013).
A self-adaptive image processing application based on evolvable and scalable hardware.
In: "23rd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2013)", 02/09/2013 - 04/09/2013, Porto, Portugal. pp..
https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2013.6645631.
Abstract
Evolvable Hardware (EH) is a technique that consists of using reconfigurable hardware devices whose configuration is controlled by an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA). Our system consists of a fully-FPGA implemented scalable EH platform, where the Reconfigurable processing Core (RC) can adaptively increase or decrease in size. Figure 1 shows the architecture of the proposed System-on-Programmable-Chip (SoPC), consisting of a MicroBlaze processor responsible of controlling the whole system operation, a Reconfiguration Engine (RE), and a Reconfigurable processing Core which is able to change its size in both height and width. This system is used to implement image filters, which are generated autonomously thanks to the evolutionary process. The system is complemented with a camera that enables the usage of the platform for real time applications.
