Design for Embedded Image Processing on FPGAs, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge all those who have helped me to get me where I currently am in my understanding of field‐programmable gate array (FPGA)‐based design. In particular, I would like to thank my research students (David Johnson, Kim Gribbon, Chris Johnston, Aaron Bishell, Andreas Buhler, Ni Ma, Anoop Ambikumar, Tariq Khan, and Michael Klaiber) who helped to shape my thinking and approach to FPGA development as we struggled together to work out efficient ways of implementing image processing algorithms. This book is as much a reflection of their work as it is of mine.

Most of our early work used Handel‐C and was tested on boards provided by Celoxica. I would like to acknowledge the support provided by Roger Gook and his team, first with Celoxica and later with Agility Design Solutions. Later work was on boards supplied by Terasic. I would like to acknowledge Sean Peng and his team for their on‐going support and encouragement.

Massey University has provided a supportive environment and the freedom for me to explore this field. In particular, Serge Demidenko gave me the encouragement and the push to begin playing with FPGAs; he has been a source of both inspiration and challenging questions. Other colleagues who have been of particular encouragement are Gourab Sen Gupta, Richard Harris, Amal Punchihewa, and Steven Le Moan. I would also like to acknowledge Paul Lyons, who co‐supervised several of my students.

Early versions of some of the material in this ...