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Pulse-Modulated Vision Chips with Versatile-Interconnected Pixels

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Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS 2000)

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This paper proposes and demonstrates novel types of vision chips that utilize pulse trains for image processing. Two types of chips were designed using 1.2 (µm double-metal double-poly CMOS process; one is based on a pulse width modulation (PWM) and the other is based on a pulse frequency modulation (PFM). In both chips the interaction between the pixels were introduced to realize the image pre-processing. The basic experimental and simulation results are shown for the PWM and PFM chips, respectively. Also the comparison between two types is discussed.

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  1. Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0101, Japan

    Jun Ohta, Akihiro Uehara, Takashi Tokuda & Masahiro Nunoshita

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  1. Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, Université de Genève, 24, rue Général Dufour, CH-1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    José Rolim

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Ohta, J., Uehara, A., Tokuda, T., Nunoshita, M. (2000). Pulse-Modulated Vision Chips with Versatile-Interconnected Pixels. In: Rolim, J. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPDPS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1800. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45591-4_146

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