Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 49, Issue 5, 20190553(2020)

A high speed programmable vision chip for real-time object detection

Li Honglong1...2,*, Yang Jie1,2,3, Zhang Zhongxing1,2, Luo Qian1,2, Yu Shuangming1,2, Liu Liyuan1,2, and Wu Nanjian1,24 |Show fewer author(s)
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    Figures & Tables(12)
    Operation mode analysis
    Vision chip architecture
    Circuit of patch processing unit
    PE circuit schematic
    Load/store pattern of memory
    Multilevel parallel operation
    Microphotograph of the vision chip
    Face detection algorithm and test result
    CNN image classification
    Target detection in remote sensing image
    • Table 1. Vision chip parameters

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      Table 1. Vision chip parameters

      Technology65 nm 1P9M
      Size4 mm×6 mm
      Core frequency200 MHz
      Processing unit1+16+512
      Operand bit-width2×8-bit fixed / 16-bit fixed
      Peak performance413GOPS@8b / 208GOPS@16b
      Peak power1.07 W
      I/O bandwidth3.2 Gbps (duplex)
    • Table 2. Comparison with related work

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      Table 2. Comparison with related work

      ReferencesThis workRef [5]Ref[12]Ref[13]Ref [14]
      Technology/nm651801306565
      Core area/mm24×69.8×8.4(include sensor)1874×44×4
      Frequency/MHz2005080200250
      On-chip SRAM320 kB32 kB236 kB192 kB282 kB
      Bit-width(fixed)1/8/161~1681616
      Traditional computer visionFilter, corner detection Histogram SVM/Adaboost Filter, corner detection HistogramFilter(enhance, morphology)N/AN/A
      Convolution neural networkConv Pooling FC SOM neural(FC)ConvConvConv Pooling FC
      Peak performance413GOPS@8b 208GOPS@16b14GOPS@8b61GOPS@8b67GOPS@16b32GOPS@16b
      Energy-efficiency (GOPS/W)194 @16b44 @8b(processor array)85 @8b166 @16b208 @16b
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    Li Honglong, Yang Jie, Zhang Zhongxing, Luo Qian, Yu Shuangming, Liu Liyuan, Wu Nanjian. A high speed programmable vision chip for real-time object detection[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2020, 49(5): 20190553

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    Received: Feb. 5, 2020

    Accepted: Mar. 25, 2020

    Published Online: Sep. 22, 2020

    The Author Email: Honglong Li (lihonglong@semi.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/irla20190553

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