Abstract: Image processing for multimedia workstations is a computationally intensive task requiring special purpose hardware to meet the high speed requirements associated with the task. One type of specialized hardware that meets the computation high speed requirements is the mesh connected computer. Such a computer becomes a massively parallel machine when an array of computers interconnected by a network are replicated in a machine. The nearest neighbor mesh computer consists of an N×N square array of Processor Elements(PEs) where each PE is connected to the North, South, East and West PEs only. The diagonal folded mesh array processor, which is called Oracle, allows the matrix transformation operation to be accomplished in one cycle by simple interchange of the data elements in the dual symmetric processor elements.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 23, 1995
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2002
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Gerald George Pechanek, Stamatis Vassiliadis, Jose Guadalupe Delgado-Frias