Vendor: CTAccel Ltd. Category: Image Conversion

Image Processor

CTAccel Image Processor (CIP) is a FPGA based high-performance image processing accelerator.

Overview

CTAccel Image Processor (CIP) is a FPGA based high-performance image processing accelerator. By taking advantage of deeply pipelined logic and multiple PE’s, CIP improves server throughput and latency while reduces total cost of ownership.

Key features

  • High Performance
    • CIP accelerates a typical JPEG decode, resize and webp encode workflow on a CPU based server by up to 5 times, while reducing latency by two-thirds at the same time. This is made possible by offloading all encode, decode and pixel level processing to the more efficient FPGA.
  • Low Power Consumption
    • Each FPGA accelerators consumes only 20W of power. A single accelerator can raise server performance by 3 to 5 time. CIP can drastically increase compute density, which translates to less rack space and lower administration cost.
  • Seamless Software Integration
    • CIP is fully compatible with 2 of the most popular open source image processing software: ImageMagick and OpenCV. You get the flexibility of software and the performance of FPGA. No modification to your system software is required.
  • Low Maintenance
    • The FPGA accelerator can be reconfigured remotely. CIP can be easily reconfigured to maximized performance for your custom usage scenario.

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
CTAccel Image Processor
Vendor
CTAccel Ltd.
Type
Silicon IP

Provider

CTAccel Ltd.
CTAccel Ltd. is founded in March 2016. The core team of CTAccel comes from the FPGA team of Clustertech Ltd. The team has been involved in the development of FPGA based heterogeneous computing solution for Datacenter since 2013. We have a 20-strong R&D team, with most its members holding an advance degree in science and engineering from top universities in the world and have extensive experience in algorithm design, FPGA design, hardware/ software codesign, system optimization and software engineering. Our team focus on accelerating image processing in Internet Data Center. Our patented CTAccel Image Processor (CIP) improves the performance and efficiency of image processing in datacenters.

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