High-Level Synthesis for Hardware/Software Co-Design of Distributed Smart Camera Systems

Streit FJ, Letras M, Schid M, Falk J, Wildermann S, Teich J (2017)

Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Future Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2017

Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery

Conference Proceedings Title: ACM Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras

Event location: Stanford, USA

DOI: 10.1145/3131885.3131932

Abstract

In this paper, we present a holistic design methodology for em-
bedded smart camera networks consisting of FPGA-based Pro-
grammable System-on-Chips (PSoCs). Beginning with a high-level
model of a distributed smart camera application specified in Mat-
lab/Simulink, a behavioral data-flow-based SystemC model is auto-
matically generated. In turn, every vertex of the data-flow graph rep-
resents a functional task of the application and can be implemented
either as a software or a hardware component on PSoC nodes within
the smart camera network. Also, such hardware/software designs
for data-intensive camera applications require a sophisticated hard-
ware/software interconnect. These design decisions on mapping
tasks and communication influence throughput but also the costs
of the distributed smart camera network.
Our methodology varies communication routing and task map-
ping within a camera network to optimize several objectives si-
multaneously. Particularly, we use Design Space Exploration (DSE)
to explore the trade-off between resource costs and throughput
in a smart camera application realized as a heterogeneous hard-
ware/software system. In this context, High-Level Synthesis (HLS)
constitutes an important mechanism to estimate the functional
properties of different hardware design candidates automatically.
Furthermore, it enables a semi-automatic synthesis of the smart
camera implementation candidate. As a case study, we apply our
methodology to a high-bandwidth multi-camera system consist-
ing of PSoC nodes, which apply feature-based image registration
techniques to combine multiple images with an overlapping field-
of-view to produce a panoramic view.

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APA:

Streit, F.-J., Letras, M., Schid, M., Falk, J., Wildermann, S., & Teich, J. (2017). High-Level Synthesis for Hardware/Software Co-Design of Distributed Smart Camera Systems. In ACM Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras. Stanford, USA, US: Association for Computing Machinery.

MLA:

Streit, Franz-Josef, et al. "High-Level Synthesis for Hardware/Software Co-Design of Distributed Smart Camera Systems." Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Stanford, USA Association for Computing Machinery, 2017.

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