Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, 2014, Engineering

The applications of digital signal processing continue to expand and use in many different areas such as signal processing, radar tracking, image processing, medical imaging, video broadcasting, and control algorithms for sensor array processing. Most of the signal processing applications are intensive and may not achieve the real time requirements. However, the Multi-core phenomenon has been embraced by almost all processor manufacturers and the road to the future is through parallel processing. Now we have many parallel processing platforms that developed for high performance such as: 1) Multi-Core/Many-Cores 2) Graphic Processing Units (GPU) 3) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) This research work involves developing optimized parallel architectures of many signal processing applications such as Extensive Cancellation Algorithm (ECA), Direct Data Domain (D3), Block Compressive Sampling Matching Pursuit algorithm (BCoSaMP), video processing, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), Particle Filter (PF), and Iterative Hard Thresholding (IHT) on different platforms such as Multi-core, FPGA and GPU. This is performed by exploring opportunities of any computation and storage that can be eliminated to achieve high performance and meet its real time requirements. Different techniques and ideas have also been derived from different advanced fields to increase the intelligibility and the usefulness of our research. A new innovative generalized method is proposed which can be very helpful for many researchers in various areas. Then, the applications have been moved higher ordering through implementing interfaces. This makes it adaptable by specifying all the input parameters of a certain application and fast prototyping through different performance evaluations. We propose and exploit many parallelization methods and optimization techniques in order to improve the latency, hardware usage, power consumption, cost, and reliability. These parallelization methods predict (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Mohsin Jamali (Committee Chair); Mohamed Hefzy (Committee Member); Ezzatollah Salari (Committee Member); Devinder Kaur (Committee Member); Rashmi Jha (Committee Member) Subjects: Computer Engineering; Electrical Engineering