A CAM-Based Information Detection Hardware System for Fast Image Matching on FPGA
Duc-Hung Le, Tran-Bao-Thuong Cao, Katsumi Inoue, Cong‐Kha Pham · IEICE Transactions on Electronics · 2013
In this paper, the authors present a CAM-based Information Detection Hardware System for fast, exact and approximate image matching on 2-D data, using FPGA. The proposed system can be potentially applied to fast image matching with various required search patterns, without using search principles. In designing the system, we take advantage of Content Addressable Memory (CAM) which has parallel multi-match mode capability and has been designed, using dual-port RAM blocks. The system has a simple structure, and does not employ any Central Processor Unit (CPU) or complicated computations.