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Simulation environment for a vision-system-on-chip with integrated processing

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Christoph Hoppe,

Nico PeterAuthors Info & Claims

ICDSC '15: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras

Pages 20 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/2789116.2789133

Published: 08 September 2015 Publication History

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Imagers with programmable, highly parallel signal processing execute computationally intensive processing steps directly on the sensor, thereby allowing early reduction of the amount of data to relevant features. For the purposes of architectural exploration during development of a novel Vision-System-on-Chip (VSoC), it has been modelled on system level. Aside from the integrated control unit with multiple independent control flows, the model also realises digital and analogue signal processing. Due to high simulation speed and compatibility with the real system, especially regarding the programs to be executed, the resulting simulation model is very well suited for usage during application development. By providing the ability to purposefully introduce parameter deviations or defects at various points of analogue processing, it becomes possible to study them with respect to their influence on image processing algorithms executed within the VSoC.

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ICDSC '15: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras

September 2015

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DOI:10.1145/2789116

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Pantho MMbongue JBhowmik PBobda C(2022)Event camera simulator design for modeling attention-based inference architecturesJournal of Real-Time Image Processing10.1007/s11554-021-01191-y19:2(363-374)Online publication date: 5-Jan-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-021-01191-y
Villegas-Pachon CCarmona-Galan RFernandez-Berni JRodriguez-Vazquez A(2016)Hardware-aware performance evaluation for the co-design of image sensors and vision algorithms2016 13th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)10.1109/SMACD.2016.7520722(1-4)Online publication date: Jun-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2016.7520722

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