Hardware description languages are not the easiest way to implement hardware designs for on-board hyperspectral image processing, therefore alternatives like HLS have become very popular to speed up the task. Nevertheless, HLS solutions are still behind RTL designs in terms of performance. Aimed at filling the gap between traditional HDLs and HLS, this work proposes a new hardware description language, based on simple predefined modules which perform well-defined tasks. The modules are meant to be chained together, defining multi-path pipelines. In contrast to traditional architectures, there is no standalone control unit, since the logic is embedded into the data flow.
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