Chapter 9. Basics of Embedded Video and Image Processing

This (and the preceding) chapter comes from the book Embedded Media Processing by David Katz and Rick Gentile, ISBN: 9780750679121. As we noted in the previous chapter, when Intel Corporation and Analog Devices collaborated to introduce the micro signal architecture (MSA) in 2000, the result was a processor uniting microcontroller (MCU) and DSP functionality into a single high-performance “convergent processing” device—a rather unique entry into the marketplace.What transpired with the MSA-based Blackfin® family was that a new class of application spaces opened up, from video-enabled handheld gadgets, to control-intensive industrial applications, to operating system/number-crunching combos ...

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