Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
IEEE
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Engineering and Mathematics
RAS ID
945
Abstract
Mobile multimedia communication has rapidly become a significant area of research and development. The processing requirements for the capture, conversion, compression, decompression, enhancement, display, etc. of high quality multimedia content places heavy demands even on current ULSI (ultra large scale integration) systems, particularly for mobile applications where area and power are primary considerations. The system presented is designed as a vertically integrated (3D) system comprising two distinct layers bonded together using indium bump technology. The top layer is a CMOS imaging array containing analog-to-digital converters, and a buffer memory. The bottom layer takes the form of a configurable array processor (CAP), a highly parallel array of soft programmable processors capable of carrying out complex processing tasks directly on data stored in the top plane. Until recently, the dominant format of data in imaging devices has been analog. The analog photocurrent or sampled voltage is transferred to the ADC via a column or a column/row bus. In the proposed system, an array of analog-to-digital converters is distributed, so that a one-bit cell is associated with one sensor. The analog-to-digital converters are algorithmic current-mode converters. Eight such cells are cascaded to form an 8-bit converter. Additionally, each photosensor is equipped with a current memory cell, and multiple conversions are performed with scaled values of the photocurrent for colour processing.
DOI
10.1109/HSNMC.2002.1032389
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Lachowicz, S. W., Rassau, A. M., Alagoda, G. N., Eshraghian, K. , Lee, M., & Lee, S. (2002). Image capture using integrated 3D SoftChip technology. Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications. (pp. 19-23). Korea. IEEE. Available here
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