Author:
Purohit Prafull,Manohar Rajit
Abstract
In conventional frame-based image sensors, every pixel records brightness information and sends this information to a receiver serially in a scanning fashion. This full-frame readout approach suffers from high bandwidth requirements and increased power consumption with the increasing size of the pixel array. Event-based image sensors are gaining popularity for reducing the bandwidth and power requirements by sending only meaningful data in an event-driven approach with the help of address-event representation (AER) communication protocol. However, the event-based readout suffers from increased latency and timing error when the number of pixels with an event increase. In this paper, we introduce a new field-programmable AER (FP-AER) encoding scheme which offers benefits of both frame-based and event-based approaches. The readout design can be configured “in the field” using configuration bits. We also compare the performance of the proposed design against existing AER-based approaches for imaging applications and show that FP-AER performs best in both scanning and event-based readout.
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