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Configurable Computing Solutions for Automatic Target Recognition
Overview
FPGAs can be used to build systems for automatic target recognition (ATR) that achieve an order of magnitude increase in performance over systems built using general purpose processors. This improvement is possible because the bit-level operations that comprise much of the ATR computational burden map extremely efficiently into FPGAs, and because the specificity of ATR target templates can be leveraged via fast reconfiguration. We describe here algorithms, design tools, and implementation strategies that are being used in a configurable computing
system for ATR.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows: The
remainder of the introduction includes a description of related work in configurable computing, and an overview
of the automatic target recognition(ATR) problem that serves as the application focus for the new results presented here. Section 2 introduces the basic mapping of ATR target templates into FPGA adder trees that forms the core of the processing, and discusses some of the trade-offs in using rapid reconfiguration to support ATR.
| Publisher | UCLA | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | January 2004 | Downloads | 10 |
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