TY - JOUR
AU - Constantinides, George
AB - J Real-Time Image Proc (2007) 2:177–178 DOI 10.1007/s11554-007-0068-3 EDITORIAL George A. Constantinides Published online: 4 December 2007 Springer-Verlag 2007 Field-Programmable Technology, such as the Field-Pro- The second paper, by Dias, Roma, Sousa, and Ribeiro, grammable Gate Array (FPGA) has, in recent years, considers a specific computationally intensive problem in become increasingly used to perform computation. FPGAs real-time video processing: motion estimation. Due to the offer fine-grain reconfigurable hardware, and so enable the computational demands of motion estimation, many ‘‘fast’’ construction of application-specific computational archi- algorithms have been proposed in the literature, but rarely tectures where the parallelism, pipelining, memory before have the tradeoffs between such algorithms been architecture, and number representations are tuned to the examined from a hardware perspective. algorithm to be executed. As a result, FPGA-based com- The third paper, by Chrysos, Dollas, and Bourbakis, putation has resulted in significant speedups compared to considers the different, but again computationally expen- typical performance achieved by general-purpose proces- sive problems of compression and encryption for video sors, making it suitable for real-time environments. data streams. One application area that has been quick to reap the For FPGA specialists, the paper is also of interest due to benefits of FPGA-based 
TI - Special issue on Field-Programmable Technology
JO - Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
DO - 10.1007/s11554-007-0068-3
DA - 2007-12-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/special-issue-on-field-programmable-technology-n4MDMdGI1C
SP - 177
EP - 178
VL - 2
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -