The implementation of an evolvable hardware system for real time image registration on a system-on-chip platform

This paper presents an evolvable hardware system for Real Time Image Registration implemented on a conventional System-on-Chip platform. In order to provide flexibility most components of the Genetic Algorithm, which forms the basis of the Evolvable Hardware, are implemented as embedded software and ported to various components on the System-on-Chip platform. The paper describes optimisation techniques in order to achieve real time speed for porting the algorithm on an ARM7 based System-on-Chip platform. Results for the execution on the host platform and the System-on-Chip target are presented. Through analysis of the results, a modified platform is proposed for the implementation of the Evolvable Hardware system. This enhanced system architecture includes a high performance Digital Signal Processing Intellectual Property Core.