ArcvaVX: OpenVX Framework for Adaptive Reconfigurable Computer Vision Architectures

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Abstract

The field of computer vision is steadily growing in its complexity and application areas. FPGAs have shown that they can meet the growing demands for performance and energy efficiency. However, their programmability is a major challenge for software programmers. With OpenVX a standard for cross platform acceleration of computer vision applications exists. Existing OpenVX FPGA frameworks often contain non-standard constructs and consider either fixed processor architectures or specialized non-adaptive accelerators. Therefore, we propose ArcvaVX, a framework that generates a runtime-adaptive vision architecture from OpenVX applications, which is performant and flexible. It (1) verifies the user implemented OpenVX applications, partitions them into task graphs and creates their meta-data (2) maps these tasks to physical nodes, creates a schedule, and clusters and places the nodes within a partition-based topology (3) creates the hardware architecture, including additional components required to generate a runtime-adaptive system. These components contain runtime configurable network adapters that can prevent deadlocks, a controller for direct memory access, and a manager that configures both and maintains the schedule. The architecture is designed for applications with high data rates and low synchronization overhead. The evaluation shows a low latency overhead of 0.006% added by the architecture, while resource consumption is more than halved compared to a design consisting only of accelerators.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplied Reconfigurable Computing. Architectures, Tools, and Applications - 19th International Symposium, ARC 2023, Proceedings
EditorsFrancesca Palumbo, Georgios Keramidas, Nikolaos Voros, Pedro C. Diniz
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages97-112
Number of pages16
ISBN (print)9783031429200
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14251 LNCS
ISSN0302-9743

Conference

Title19th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing
Abbreviated titleARC 2023
Conference number19
Duration27 - 29 September 2023
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
LocationBrandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg
CityCottbus
CountryGermany

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0003-2571-8441/work/159607528

Keywords

Sustainable Development Goals

Keywords

  • Computer Vision, FPGA, Framework, HLS, OpenVX