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Design and Implementation of a Hardware Coprocessor for Ray Caster Volume Rendering

Arnaldo S. R. Oliveira,Beatriz Sousa Santos-2013-01-03-Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT)
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This paper discusses the implementation of an hardware coprocessor for volume rendering. This type of applications requires much storage and computational resources. However, high performance processing isn’t easily achieved without dedicated hardware. The proposed approach takes full advantage of reconfigurable hardware, which allows sharing the same hardware among different applications, thus saving the investment cost of specific coprocessors for each application.

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This paper discusses the implementation of an hardware coprocessor for volume rendering. This type of applications requires much storage and computational resources. However, high performance processing isn’t easily achieved without dedicated hardware. The proposed approach takes full advantage of reconfigurable hardware, which allows sharing the same hardware among different applications, thus saving the investment cost of specific coprocessors for each application.

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Computer scienceRendering (computer graphics)Computer graphics (images)VisualizationComputer hardwareEngineering drawingEngineeringArtificial intelligence

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