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A universal system of multiprocessors has been designed that can be used for real-time processing on measurement data. It is based on commercially available signal processor boards in a VMEbus environment. The functionality of these boards can be enhanced by freely configurable structures of interconnection. These structures are designed as reconfigurable hardware. Reconfigurability is achieved by using SRAM-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). Digital signal processors (DSPs) may be linked in a way that depends on the algorithmic structure of a task. Applications have to be implemented by combined hardware and software development cycles. The reprogrammability of the interconnecting structures allows recursive adjustment of hardware and software during design. One application has been implemented that performs short-time spectral analysis and computation of short-time correlation.
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Schulz, P. (1995). Extending DSP-boards with FPGA-based structures of interconnection. In: Moore, W., Luk, W. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic and Applications. FPL 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 975. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60294-1_100
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