Reconfigurable OPTO-ASICs as base for future self-organizing CMOS cameras

Abstract

We investigated different parallel SIMD (single instruction multiple data) architectures based on pure programmable and reconfigurable approaches for their appropriateness for integration in an one chip high speed CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) camera. Our goal is to combine parallel signal detection and parallel signal processing in one chip. By a logic synthesis we show that a reconfigurable combinatorial circuit based on morphological operations is superior for our purpose. Further we describe briefly how a such system can be expanded towards a self-organizing system.