Title
A low-power system-on-chip for the documentation of road accidents
Abstract
In this letter, the implementation of a system-on-chip for the documentation of road accidents is presented. Key features of the system are the implementation on a programmable architecture of a compression algorithm capable of encoding up to 20 black and white QCIF frames/s, and the computation of a digital signature performed every frame which is applied to the encoded bitstream certifying the source of the video sequence. The acquired images are then stored on a battery of on-chip flash memories that can be used to retrieve accident information to be used in legal confrontations. Having to perform in critical energy conditions (e.g., continued image acquisition for up to 10-20 s after an accident has occurred), the system was designed to minimize energy consumption at all levels. The system-on-chip has been implemented in 6×6 mm2 on a 0.25-μm 6-metal standard-cell CMOS technology and works at 40 MHz with a 2.5-V power supply. Performance can be decreased to 12 QCIF frames/s, 24 MHz, and 1.3-V power supply in order to achieve 30-mW power consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/TCSVT.2005.856918
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Techn.
Keywords
Field
DocType
qcif frame,energy consumption,acquired image,road accident,white qcif frame,30-mw power consumption,low-power system-on-chip,6-metal standard-cell cmos technology,power supply,accident information,critical energy condition,application specific integrated circuits,digital signatures,cmos technology,computer architecture,data compression,system on a chip,compression algorithms,qcif,compression algorithm,documentation,design flow,system on chip,low power electronics,digital signature,encoding
System on a chip,Computer science,Electric power system,Design flow,Application-specific integrated circuit,Electronic engineering,Digital signature,Data compression,Bitstream,Low-power electronics,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
11
1051-8215
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-5809-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
luca bolcioni100.34
Fabio Campi222719.26
R. Canegallo342.14
R Guerrieri412430.04