Cellular Neural Network Chips with Optical Image Acquisition

نویسندگان

  • S. Espejo
  • R. Domínguez-Castro
  • A. Rodríguez-Vázquez
چکیده

This paper presents a systematic approach to design CMOS chips with concurrent picture acquisition and processing capability. Pixel smartness is achieved by exploiting the Cellular Neural Network paradigm [1], incorporating at each Spixel an analog computing cell which interacts with those of nearby Spixels. We propose a current-mode technique for CNNSpixel chips and give measurements from two 16 × 16 prototypes in a single-poly double-metal CMOS n-well 1.6μm technology. One of these prototypes is designed for the application of Connected Component Detection (CCDet) [2], and the other to calculate the Radon Transform (RT) [3] of an input image. The CCDet chip obtains a density of ∼89 Spixels (sensory+regulation+processing) per mm2, with a power consumption of 105μW per Spixel. The sensory+regulation circuitry amount to ∼30% of the total Spixel pixel area and the rest corresponds to the processing circuitry. Area and power figures for the RT chip are similar. These area and power figures, and the fact that connections among pixels are made by abutment (requiring no extra routing area) enable forecasting single-die CMOS chips with 100 × 100 complexity and about 1W power consumption.

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تاریخ انتشار 1994