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Design of a Hardware Resource Sharable Camera Control Processor for Low-Cost and Low-Power Camera Cell Phones  

Lim, Kyu-Sam (Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea University)
Baek, Kwang-Hyun (School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University)
Kim, Su-Ki (Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD / v.47, no.3, 2010 , pp. 35-40 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a hardware resource sharable camera control processor (CCP) for low-cost and low-power camera cell phones. The main idea behind the proposed architecture is that adds direct access paths in the CCP to share its hardware resources so that the baseband processor expands its capabilities and boosts its performance by utilizing CCF's hardware resources. In addition, we applied a module grain dock-gating method to reduce power dissipation. Hence, the CCP can realize low-power and low-cost camera cell phones with greater hardware efficiency. This chip was fabricated in a 0.18um CMOS process with an active area of $3.8mm\;{\times}\;3.8mm$.
Keywords
Camera cell phone; mobile phone; camera control processor;
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