Lookup Table

Map input pixel to output pixel using custom rule

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Libraries:
Vision HDL Toolbox / Conversions

Description

The Lookup Table block provides a custom one-to-one map between an input pixel value and an output pixel value.

Examples

Compute Negative Image

Create the negative of an image by looking up the opposite pixel values in a table.

Open Model

Ports

This block uses a streaming pixel interface with a pixelcontrol bus for frame control signals. This interface enables the block to operate independently of image size and format. All Vision HDL Toolbox™ blocks use the same streaming interface. The block accepts and returns a scalar pixel value and a bus that contains five control signals. The control signals indicate the validity of each pixel and its location in the frame. To convert a frame (pixel matrix) into a serial pixel stream and control signals, use the Frame To Pixels block. For a full description of the interface, see Streaming Pixel Interface.

Input

pixel — Input pixel stream

scalar | vector

For single pixel streaming, specify pixel as a scalar intensity value or a row vector of Number of components values. For multipixel streaming, specify pixel as a column vector of Number of pixels pixel intensity values. Number of pixels can be two, four, or eight. This block does not support multipixel-multicomponent streaming.

Integer and fixed-point data types larger than 16 bits are not supported. Signed data types are not supported.

Data Types: uint8 | uint16 | fixdt(0,N,F), N <= 16 | Boolean

ctrl — Control signals associated with pixel stream

pixelcontrol bus

The pixelcontrol bus contains five signals. The signals describe the validity of the pixel and its location in the frame. For more information, see Pixel Control Bus.

For multipixel streaming, each vector of pixel values has one set of control signals. Because the vector has only one valid signal, the pixels in the vector must be either all valid or all invalid. The hStart and vStart signals apply to the pixel with the lowest index in the vector. The hEnd and vEnd signals apply to the pixel with the highest index in the vector.

Data Types: bus

Output

pixel — Output pixel stream

scalar | vector

The dimensions of the output pixel match the dimensions of the input pixel. The block returns the output pixel as a scalar, a row vector of Number of components values, or a column vector of Number of pixels values.

The data type is specified by the Table data parameter.

The software supports double and single data types for simulation, but not for HDL code generation.

Data Types: uint8 | uint16 | int8 | int16 | fixed point | Boolean | double | single

ctrl — Control signals associated with pixel stream

pixelcontrol bus

The pixelcontrol bus contains five signals. The signals describe the validity of the pixel and its location in the frame. For more information, see Pixel Control Bus.

For multipixel streaming, each vector of pixel values has one set of control signals. Because the vector has only one valid signal, the pixels in the vector must be either all valid or all invalid. The hStart and vStart signals apply to the pixel with the lowest index in the vector. The hEnd and vEnd signals apply to the pixel with the highest index in the vector.

Data Types: bus

Parameters

Table data — Map between input pixel and output pixel

uint8(0:1:255) (default) | vector

Map between input pixel and output pixel, specified as a row or column vector of any data type. The data type of the table data determines the data type of the output pixel. This mapping determines the one-to-one correspondence between an input pixel value and an output pixel value.

• The length of the vector must be 2^WordLength, where WordLength is the size, in bits, of the input pixel. The Lookup Table block does not perform interpolation. Every input value must have a corresponding output value in the table.

• The smallest representable value of the input data type maps to the first element of the table, the second smallest value maps to the second element, and so on. For example, if the input pixel has a data type of fixdt(0,3,1), the input value 0 maps to the first element of the table, 0.5 maps to the second element, 1 maps to the third element, and so on.

When the input pixel is a vector, the block replicates the lookup table for each element of the vector. In that case, the tables use VectorSize×2^WordLength memory locations.

Example: uint8(linspace(255,0,256))

Algorithms

Latency

The latency of the Lookup Table block is 2 cycles.

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation

Generate C and C++ code using Simulink® Coder™.

This block supports C/C++ code generation for Simulink^® accelerator and rapid accelerator modes and for DPI component generation.

HDL Code Generation

Generate Verilog and VHDL code for FPGA and ASIC designs using HDL Coder™.

HDL Coder™ provides additional configuration options that affect HDL implementation and synthesized logic.

HDL Architecture

This block has one default HDL architecture.

HDL Block Properties

ConstrainedOutputPipeline	Number of registers to place at the outputs by moving existing delays within your design. Distributed pipelining does not redistribute these registers. The default is 0. For more details, see ConstrainedOutputPipeline (HDL Coder).
InputPipeline	Number of input pipeline stages to insert in the generated code. Distributed pipelining and constrained output pipelining can move these registers. The default is 0. For more details, see InputPipeline (HDL Coder).
LUTRegisterResetType	The reset type of the lookup table output register. Select none to synthesize the lookup table to a ROM when your target is an FPGA. See also LUTRegisterResetType (HDL Coder).
OutputPipeline	Number of output pipeline stages to insert in the generated code. Distributed pipelining and constrained output pipelining can move these registers. The default is 0. For more details, see OutputPipeline (HDL Coder).

Version History

Introduced in R2015a

R2023a: Two pixels-per-clock streaming

The block now supports multipixel streams that have 2 pixels per clock cycle.

R2020b: Multipixel streaming

The Lookup Table block now supports multipixel streams. The HDL implementation replicates the algorithm for each pixel in parallel. You cannot use multicomponent and multipixel together.

For multipixel streaming, the blocks support input and output column vectors of 4 or 8 pixels. The ctrl port remains scalar, and the control signals in the pixelcontrol bus apply to all pixels in the vector.