Mixed signal SIMD cellular processor array vision chip operating at 30,000 fps

Stephen J. Carey; David R W Barr; Bin Wang; Alexey Lopich; Piotr Dudek

doi:10.1109/ICECS.2012.6463736

Mixed signal SIMD cellular processor array vision chip operating at 30,000 fps

Stephen J. Carey, David R W Barr, Bin Wang, Alexey Lopich, Piotr Dudek

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Abstract

A prototype vision chip has been designed that incorporates a 20 × 64 array of processing elements on a 31μm pitch. Each processor element includes 14 bits of digital memory in addition to 7 analogue registers. Digital operands include NOR and NOT with operations of diffusion, subtraction, inversion and squaring available in the analogue domain. The cells of the array can be configured as an asynchronous propagation network allowing operations such as flood filling to occur with times of ∼1μs across the array. Exploiting this feature allows the chip to recognise the difference between closed and open shapes at 30,000 frames per second. The chip is fabricated in 0.18μm CMOS technology. © 2012 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2012 19th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2012\|IEEE Int. Conf. Electron., Circuits, Syst., ICECS
Pages	324-327
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2012.6463736
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	2012 19th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2012 - Seville, Seville Duration: 1 Jul 2012 → …

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Conference	2012 19th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2012
City	Seville, Seville
Period	1/07/12 → …

Keywords

asynchronous image processing
cellular processor
smart sensor
Vision chip

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Carey, SJ, Barr, DRW, Wang, B, Lopich, A & Dudek, P 2012, Mixed signal SIMD cellular processor array vision chip operating at 30,000 fps. in 2012 19th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2012|IEEE Int. Conf. Electron., Circuits, Syst., ICECS. pp. 324-327, 2012 19th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2012, Seville, Seville, 1/07/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.2012.6463736

Mixed signal SIMD cellular processor array vision chip operating at 30,000 fps. / Carey, Stephen J.; Barr, David R W; Wang, Bin et al.
2012 19th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, ICECS 2012|IEEE Int. Conf. Electron., Circuits, Syst., ICECS. 2012. p. 324-327.

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