Image processing VLSI design through functional match between algorithms and architecture

The authors describe a coherent methodology to build cost-effective and powerful tailored integrated circuits for efficient 'vision computer'. They studied the image processing algorithms and found that most of these algorithms could be expressed as an arrangement of simple functions. To validate this approach, they outline special-purpose integrated computer for real-time applications. The computer is designed to be handled by users who are not specialists in computer architecture. With only one high-level language, it will make it possible to determine whether a given combination of precisely specified components will have the requested behavior.<<ETX>>