The SANDRA project: cooperative architecture/compiler technology for embedded real-time streaming applications

The convergence of digital television, Internet access, gaming, and digital media capture and playback stresses the importance of high-quality and high-performance video and graphics processing. The SANDRA project, a collaboration between Philips Research and INRIA, develops a consistent and efficient system design approach for regular, real-time constrained stream processing. The project aims at providing a system template with its associated compiler chain and application development framework, enabling an early validation of both the functional and the non-functional requirements of the application at every system design stage

Application Domain-Driven System Design for Pervasive Video Processing

International audiencePervasive video processing in future Ambient Intelligence environments sets new challenges in embedded system design. In particular, very high performance requirements have to be combined with the constraints of deeply embedded systems, frequently changing operating modes, and low-cost, high-volume production. By leveraging upon the key properties of the application domain, we devised a computation model, a hardware template, and a programming approach which provide a natural mapping from application requirements to a complete system solution. Our approach enables the direct exploitation of concurrency and regularity in achieving the combined challenge of adaptability, performance, and efficiency