The Design of a Real Time VLSI Optical Centroid Processor

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-10

  Pui, Boon Hean ^a   Hayes Gill, Barrie ^a   Clark, Matt ^a   Somekh, Mike ^a   See, Chung ^a   Morgan, Steve ^a   Ng, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active pixel; Centroid detection; CMOS IC; FPGA; Integrated detector; Photodiodes; Wavefront sensor

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTODIODES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ACTIVE PIXELS; CENTROID DETECTION; INTEGRATED DETECTORS; WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 1542301836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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