Pipeline ArchitectureDSP vs. Pipeline Argument

• Individual pipeline processors implementable in low cost custom silicon devices

  • DSP/CPU: Pricey and large power consumers - can’t cost-effectively have multiple per board

• Easy to add dozens / hundreds of processors on a single board

  • The more you ask a DSP/CPU to do, the slower the throughput

• Guaranteed processing rates - always 40M Pixels/Sec

  • Throughput difficult to predict performance in advance

• Simplified development environment

  • PC-ImageFlow well defined whereas DSP/CPU have expensive exotic compilers/linkers/debuggers

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