A ParallelSystem Design Toolset for Vision and Image Processing

email fleumessex ac uk Abstract This paper analyses the requirements of a toolset intended for integrated parallel system design Realtime datadominated systems are targeted particularly those in vision and imageprocessing A con strained abstract model is represented based around software pipelines each stage of which can contain a parallel component The toolset is novel in seeking to enable generalized parallelism in which the needs of the system as a whole are given priority The paper describes the tool infrastructure and reports on current progress on the performance prediction toolset element including simulation visualizer and analytic support This paper describes a parallelsystem design toolset which will guide the en gineer intheeld towards the construction of Pipeline Processor Farm PPF applications PPF is a stylized design and development methodology aimed a