Electronics technology for low-power computing and wireless communication
05 Dec 1993-pp 3-5
TL;DR: The information age has gone mobile and to meet this challenge will require increased emphasis on adaptive wireless communications, interface technologies, advanced packaging, and low power techniques.
Abstract: The information age has gone mobile. Over the next two decades, the energy of this rejuvenated information revolution will create the majority of new electronics applications and illuminate key electronic device technology drivers. New-age mobile information appliances will be small, light, inexpensive, numerous, and connected to international-scale information services. At the forefront of high-tech will be low-cost consumer electronic distributed systems. To meet this challenge will require increased emphasis on adaptive wireless communications, interface technologies (such as displays and microelectromechanical systems), advanced packaging, and low power techniques. >
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27 Mar 1995
TL;DR: An experimental analog VLSI focal plane processor for the phototransduction, local gain control and edge enhancement of natural images, using current-mode subthreshold CMOS using circuits of minimal complexity offers the possibility of ultra low power dissipation and area efficiency, commensurate with V LSI integration.
Abstract: We present an experimental analog VLSI focal plane processor for the phototransduction, local gain control and edge enhancement of natural images. The single chip system incorporates 590,000 transistors in 48,000 pixels, and it has been fabricated on a 9.5/spl times/9.3 mm die in a 1.2 /spl mu/m n-well double metal, double poly, digital oriented CMOS technology. The organization of the system abstracts from the structure and function of the vertebrate distal retina. The adopted design style, current-mode subthreshold CMOS using circuits of minimal complexity offers the possibility of ultra low power dissipation and area efficiency, commensurate with VLSI integration.
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