TWO CELLULAR ARCHITECTURES FOR INTEGRATED IMAGE SENSING AND PROCESSING ON A SINGLE CHIP ABSTRACT:

Two architectures for a programmable image processor with on-chip light sensing capability are described. The first is a VLSI implementation of a cellular neural network. The second is a distributed dual-structure mutation of the first architecture. The distributed dual architecture leverages the speed of silicon against the large silicon area requirements. Moreover, the innovative integrated nature of the dual-structure design significantly reduces the bottleneck and computational overload caused by data transfer from sensory focal plane to the image processor. The paper also describesVLSI chip prototypes and test results