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http://dx.doi.org/10.5369/JSST.2003.12.6.231

Design of Analog CMOS Vision Chip for Edge Detection with Low Power Consumption  

Kim, Jung-Hwan (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Park, Jong-Ho (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Suh, Sung-Ho (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Min-Ho (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Shin, Jang-Kyoo (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Nam, Ki-Hong (Dept of Electronic and Information Engineering, Kyungil University)
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Journal of Sensor Science and Technology / v.12, no.6, 2003 , pp. 231-240 More about this Journal
Abstract
The problem of power consumption and the limitation of a chip area should be considered when the pixel number of the edge detection circuit increases to fabricate a vision chip for edge detection with high resolution. The numeric increment of the unit circuit causes power consumption to increase and require a larger chip area. An increment of power consumption and a limitation of chip area with several ten milli-meters square supplied by the CMOS foundry company restrict the pixel numbers of the edge detection circuit. In this paper, we proposed a electronic switch to minimize the power consumption owing to the numeric increment of the edge detection circuit to realize a vision chip for edge detection with high resolution. We also applied a method by which photodetector and edge detection circuit are separated to implement a vision chip with a higher resolution. The photodetector circuit with $128{\times}128$ pixels uses a common edge detection circuit with $1{\times}128$ pixels so that resolution was improved at the same chip area. The chip size is $4mm{\times}4mm$ and the power consumption was confirmed to be about 20mW using SPICE.
Keywords
vision chips; CMOS vision chips; analog CMOS vision chips; retina chips;
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