pipeline processing

(1) See graphics pipeline.

(2) A category of techniques that provide simultaneous parallel processing within the computer. Pipeline processing refers to overlapping operations by moving data or instructions into a conceptual pipe with all stages of the pipe performing simultaneously. For example, while one instruction is being executed, the computer is decoding the next. In vector processors, several steps in a floating point operation can be processed simultaneously. See superscalar and multicore.

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First, for the pipeline processing of the windowing and FFT functions in the DBF block, multi-channel 2D data are simultaneously read from 8 memory blocks and are fed into each DBF block.

Parallel and pipelined hardware implementation of radar signal processing for an FMCW multi-channel radar

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