Compressive Sensing (CS) is a novel scheme, in which a signal that is sparse in a known transform domain can be reconstructed using fewer samples. The signal reconstruction techniques are computationally intensive and have sluggish performance, which make them impractical for real-time processing applications . The paper presents novel architectures for Orthogonal Matching Pursuit algorithm, one of the popular CS reconstruction algorithms. We show the implementation results of proposed architectures on FPGA, ASIC and on a custom many-core platform. For FPGA and ASIC implementation, a novel thresholding method is used to reduce the processing time for the optimization problem by at least 25%. Whereas, for the custom many-core platform, efficient parallelization techniques are applied, to reconstruct signals with variant signal lengths of N and sparsity of m. The algorithm is divided into three kernels. Each kernel is parallelized to reduce execution time, whereas efficient reuse of the matrix operators allows us to reduce area. Matrix operations are efficiently paralellized by taking advantage of blocked algorithms. For demonstration purpose, all architectures reconstruct a 256-length signal with maximum sparsity of 8 using 64 measurements. Implementation on Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA, requires 27.14 micro sec to reconstruct the signal using basic OMP. Whereas, with thresholding method it requires 18 micro sec. ASIC implementation reconstructs the signal in 13 micro secs. However, our custom many-core, operating at 1.18 GHz, takes 18.28 micro sec to complete. Our results show that compared to the previous published work of the same algorithm and matrix size, proposed architectures for FPGA and ASIC implementations perform 1.3x and 1.8x respectively faster. Also, the proposed many-core implementation performs 3000x faster than the CPU and 2000x faster than the GPU.
A. Kulkarni and T. Mohsenin, "High Performance Architectures for OMP Compressive Sensing Reconstruction Algorithm", 39th Annual GOMACTech Conference, April 2014
@article{gomatec-amey, author={Amey Kulkarni and Stanislaus, J.L.V.M. and Tinoosh Mohsenin}, title = {High Performance Architectures for OMP Compressive Sensing Reconstruction Algorithm}, journal = {39th Annual GOMACTech Conference}, month = {April}, year = {2014},}