Section: Application Domains
Intensive signal processing
The DaRT project-team aims at improving the design of embedded systems with a strong focus on intensive signal processing applications.
This application domain is the most intensive part of signal processing, usually composed of systematic signal processing followed by intensive data processing. The systematic signal processing mainly consists of a chain of filters and regular processing applied on the input signals independently of the signal values. It results in a characterization of the input signals with values of interest. The intensive data processing applies irregular computations on these values of interest. Those computations may depend on the signal values.
Below are three application examples from our industrial partners.
- Software Radio Receiver.
This application is structured in a front end systematic signal processing including signal digitalizing, channel selection, and application of filters to eliminate interferences. These first data are decoded in a second and more irregular phase (synchronization, signal demodulation...).
- Sonar Beam Forming.
A classical sonar chain consists in a first and systematic step followed by a more general data processing. The first step provides frequency and location correlations (so called beam ) from a continuous flow of data delivered by the hydrophones (microphones disposed around a submarine). It is based on signal elementary transformations: FFT (Fast Fourier Transformation) and discrete integration. The second step analyses a given set of beams and their history to identify temporal correlation and association to signal sources.
- Video Encoder/Decoder.
A video encoder works in a two-steps approach. The first part (from preprocessing to wavelet/cosine decomposition) is systematic. The second part of the encoder includes irregular processing (quantification, coding stages, motion detection). The decoder works the other way around: a first irregular phase is followed by a systematic phase. Recently we have used the H263 protocol.
