Title :
Design methodology and performance estimation for complementary gallium arsenide
Author :
Eshraghian, Kamran
Author_Institution :
Edith Cowan Univ., Joondalup, WA, Australia
Abstract :
The trend towards VLSI digital signal and image processors for interactive mobile multimedia (M3C) communications imposes a very high level of performance requirements for the underlying technology. Portability of the system imposes further complexity in terms of the need for low voltage operation and low power dissipation. This paper will address a new area of basic research, that exploits the parallelism and connectivity offered by optics together with the compactness and functionality available from VLSI using complementary gallium arsenide as the base technology for image capture, on-line compression and display. A device architecture in the form of intelligent pixels using a newly developed methodology for design and layout of complementary gallium arsenide is also presented
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; VLSI; data compression; digital signal processing chips; gallium arsenide; image coding; image processing equipment; image sensors; integrated circuit design; low-power electronics; multimedia communication; DSP chips; GaAs; VLSI; connectivity; design methodology; device architecture; functionality; image capture; intelligent pixels; interactive mobile multimedia communications; low voltage operation; on-line compression; parallelism; performance estimation; power dissipation; Design methodology; Displays; Gallium arsenide; Image coding; Low voltage; Mobile communication; Power dissipation; Signal processing; Smart pixels; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisboa
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5008-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.1998.814013
