Mixed-signal early vision chip with embedded-image and  programming memories and digital I/O

Gustavo Linan-Cembrano; Angel Rodriguez-Vazquez; Rafael Dominguez-Castro; Servando Espejo

doi:10.1117/12.499153

21 April 2003 Mixed-signal early vision chip with embedded image and programming memories and digital I/O

Gustavo Linan-Cembrano, Angel Rodriguez-Vazquez, Rafael Dominguez-Castro, Servando Espejo

Proceedings Volume 5117, VLSI Circuits and Systems; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.499153
Event: Microtechnologies for the New Millennium 2003, 2003, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Abstract

From a system level perspective, this paper presents a 128x128 flexible and reconfigurable Focal-Plane Analog Programmable Array Processor, which has been designed as a single chip in a 0.35μm standard digital 1P-5M CMOS technology. The core processing array has been designed to achieve high-speed of operation and large-enough accuracy (~7bit) with low power consumption. The chip includes on-chip program memory to allow for the execution of complex, sequential and/or bifurcation flow image processing algorithms. It also includes the structures and circuits needed to guarantee its embedding into conventional digital hosting systems: external data interchange and control are completely digital. The chip contains close to four million transistors, 90% of them working in analog mode. The chip features up to 330GOPs (Giga Operations per second), and uses the power supply (180GOP/Joule) and the silicon area (3.8 GOPS/mm²) efficiently, as it is able to maintain VGA processing throughputs of 100Frames/s with about 15 basic image processing tasks on each frame.

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Gustavo Linan-Cembrano, Angel Rodriguez-Vazquez, Rafael Dominguez-Castro, and Servando Espejo "Mixed-signal early vision chip with embedded image and programming memories and digital I/O", Proc. SPIE 5117, VLSI Circuits and Systems, (21 April 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.499153

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