Performance evaluation of an SoC for the real-time lens-free imager RALFIE

A Lens-Free Imager (LFI) is one of promising candidates for massive visual inspection systems in biology and medical science. In a practical application, millions of samples need to be inspected in a short period of time, which a single Lens-Free Imager (LFI) system cannot accomplish. Therefore, we propose a high performance parallel LFI system called RALFIE (Real-time Advanced LFI Evaluation system). In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a 64bit MIPS SoC for the development platform of RALFIE.