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Development of Customized MIPS_32 Core Processor for Image Processing Applications | ||
| IRAQI JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS, COMMUNICATIONS, CONTROL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING | ||
| Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 27-42 PDF (1.43 M) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.33103/uot.ijccce.24.1.3 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Omar Nowfal MohammedTaher* ; Mohammed Najm Abdullah; Hassan Awheed Jeiad | ||
| Computer Engineering Department, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Definitely, image processing operations without advanced and expensive microprocessors consume more time, power, and larger programs. So, improving the reasonable cost of microprocessors is crucial in this situation. This paper proposes an improvement for the MIPS_32 architecture that is called a Customized MIPS_32 (CMIPS_32) to enhance the capabilities of image processing (IP) operations. The proposal aims to increase throughput by minimizing the iterative fetching of instructions required by a certain IP operation into a single customized IP instruction. The architecture of MIPS_32 was developed in two phases. Firstly, the Register File, control unit, and ALU are modified to manipulate the information related to the IP operations. Secondly, two new units, the address calculation unit and the last pixel detection unit, were proposed to determine a certain image's starting and ending addresses. Furthermore, the MIPS_32 pipeline is customized to have five to six stages depending on the intensity of operation required by a certain IP instruction to decrease the number of machine clocks and the power consumed. The proposal was implemented using the Zed-Board XC7Z020CLG484-1 FPGA. The results showed that the computation speedup increased by a factor equal to the number of standard instructions required to execute the same operation performed by one of the proposed IP instructions. The CMIPS_32 consumed less power than other models that were implemented on Spartan3-XC3S1500L, Virtex5-XC5VFX30T, Virtex6-XC6VLX75T, and Virtex6-Low-Power-XC6VLX75T by 0.0138W, 0.6468W, 1.31W, and 0.7898W, respectively. Comparing the power consumed by the proposal with the GPU proved that the CMIPS_32 consumes less than the NVIDIA-GPU-GTX980 by 63.8698W. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| FPGA; Image processing instructions; MIPS_32; Verilog | ||
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