The VSIPL Forum has succeeded in launching the VSIPL standard. A standards document, a reference implementation, and a test suite have all been publicly released and are being maintained.  Version 1.1 of the VSIPL API will be released in the second half of 2002.  Various proposals exist for further VSIPL-related work, especially for development of a C++ binding of VSIPL.  Nonetheless, none of these activities are yet at the stage where the VSIPL Forum needs to actively meet to consider them. Therefore, at its June 11, 2002 meeting, the VSIPL Forum voted to enter a "maintenance mode", in which it no longer holds regularly scheduled meetings, but continues to maintain and support the VSIPL standard and its associated products.  The VSIPL web site and e-mail list will continue to be maintained as well.  The full text of the approved proposal for the operation of the VSIPL Forum in this mode is available here.

Welcome to the Vector/Signal/Image Processing Library (VSIPL^TM) Forum home page. The VSIPL Forum is a volunteer organization made up of industry, government, users, and academia representatives who are working to define an industry standard API for vector, signal, and image processing primitives for embedded real-time signal processing systems. Click here for a VSIPL Overview briefing.

GOALS
• Catalyze the formation of an Industry Standard Working Group for Vector/Signal/Image Processing Libraries.
• Create a widely (industry) supported standard API/library for vector/signal/image processing primitives.
• API/Library for single processor and parallel version.
• Foster standardization for sensor software portability - reuse, interoperability, low cost COTS upgrade path, lower life cycle costs, etc.


We plan to develop and freely distribute:

-VSIPL API Standard Specification
-C Reference Implementation
-Test Suite

Future plans include extending the API to C++, and for parallel implementations.

On this Web site you will find meeting announcements, meeting summaries/minutes, presentations, white papers, supporting technical data, links to related sites, draft documents, and draft software releases.

VSIPL Forum Co-Chairs

The current VSIPL co-chairs are:
 

Rick Pancoast	Lockheed Martin Corporation
James Lebak	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
Mark Richards	Georgia Tech Research Institute Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory

A large portion of the content of this site is in Adobe Acrobat, MS Word and MS Power Point formats --To obtain freeware readers for download go to:
 

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Sponsors




The VSIPL program is sponsored by DARPA.  This material is based upon work supported by Ft. Huachuca/DARPA under Contract No. DABT63-96-C-0060 and by the Department of the Navy under contract # N00014-95-C-0007 in support of the Tactical Advanced Signal Processor Common Operating Environment (TASP COE) Program, a potential early application of VSIPL.

Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Ft. Huachuca/DARPA/Navy.

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This web site is maintained by Dr. Mark Richards (email: mark.richards@gtri.gatech.edu) of the Georgia Tech Research Institute as a service for DARPA and the U.S. Navy (PMS428).

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