SCAMP-3 is a general-purpose programmable vision chip with a 128x128 SIMD processor-per-pixel array fabricated in a 0.35um CMOS technology. The PE size is 49.35um x 49.35um, performance 1.25 MIPS/PE, power consumption 12uW/PE. This means that the chip is capable of 20 GOPS at 250mW power (max). Many image processing algorithms run at 20fps with a few mW of power!
Image Processing Examples:
Edge detection (Sobel): processing time 30us, power consumption 73nW/pixel @ 25 fps
Motion Detection:
Active Contours - Pixel Level Snakes (up to 30 evolutions per frame at 30 frames per second!)
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SCAMP-2SCAMP-2 was a general-purpose programmable vision chip with a 39x48 SIMD processor-per-pixel array fabricated in a 0.35um CMOS technology. Some of the experimental results obtained from the chip are presented below:
Edge detection algorithm: processing time 30us, power consumption 73nW/pixel @ 25 fps
Median filtering algorithm: processing time 157us, power consumption 380nW/pixel @ 25 fps
Cellular Automata - Game of Life
Greenberg-Hastings Model of Excitable Medium
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Active Contours - Pixel Level Snakes
Skeletons
Dr Piotr Dudek, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK, Email: p.dudek@manchester.ac.uk
