Title :
Mismatch-induced tradeoffs and scalability of mixed-signal vision chips
Author :
Rodríguez-Vázquez, A. ; Liñán, G. ; Espejo, S. ; Domínguez-Castro, R.
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Microelectron. de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
Abstract :
This paper explores different trade-offs associated with the design of analog VLSI chips. These trade-offs are related to the necessity of keeping the analog accuracy while taking advantage of the possibility of reducing the power consumption, increasing the operation speed, and reducing the area occupation (i.e., increasing the density of processors), as fabrication technologies scale down into deep sub-micron.
Keywords :
VLSI; computer vision; low-power electronics; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; analog VLSI chips; area occupation; deep sub-micron; fabrication technologies; mismatch-induced tradeoffs; mixed-signal vision chips; operation speed; power consumption; scalability; trade-offs; Circuits; Energy consumption; Fabrication; Limiting; MOSFETs; Machine vision; Scalability; Transconductance; Very large scale integration; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2002. ISCAS 2002. IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7448-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2002.1010648