Implementing image applications on FPGAs
Bruce A. Draper, J. Ross Beveridge, Stanislav Böhm, Charles A. Ross, M. Chawathe · 2003
The Cameron project has developed a language and compiler for mapping image-based applications to field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The paper tests this technology on several applications and finds that FPGAs are between 8 and 800 times faster than comparable Pentiums for image based tasks.