PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES FOR SMART PIXEL SYSTEMS

Smart pixel architectures offer important new opportunities Tor low-co st, portable image processing systems, They provide greater I/O bandwi dth and computing performance than systems based on CCD and microproce ssors, However, finding a balance between performance, flexibility, ef ficiency, and cost depends on an evaluation of target applications, Th is paper describes several promising architectural approaches for the realization of videoputer systems and outlines example implementations being pursued at the Georgia Institute of Technology.