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A Systolic Array for Pyramidal Algorithms

Christian Lengauer and Jingling Xue

Abstract: Pyramidal algorithms manipulate hierarchical representations of data and are used in many image processing applications, for example, in image segmentation and border extraction. We present a systolic array which performs pyramidal algorithms. The array is two-dimensional with one processor per image pixel; the number of steps in its execution is independent of the size of the image. The derivation of the array is governed by a mechanical method whose input is a Pascal-like program. After a number of manual transformations that prepare the program for the method, correct and optimal parallelism is infused mechanically. A processor layout is selected, and the channel connections follow immediately.

LFCS report ECS-LFCS-90-114

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