Mapping Multimedia Applications Onto Configurable Hardware With Parameterized Cyclo-Static Dataflow Graphs

This paper develops methods for model-based design and implementation of image processing applications. We apply our previously developed meta-modeling technique of homogeneous parameterized dataflow (HPDF)[9] to the framework of cyclostatic dataflow (CSDF) [1], and demonstrate this integrated modeling methodology through hardware mapping of a gesture recognition application. We also provide a comparative study between HPDF/CSDF-based representation of the gesture recognition application, and a previously developed version based on applying HPDF in conjunction with conventional synchronous dataflow (SDF) semantics [9].