Title
A Ray-Casting Accelerator in 10nm CMOS for Efficient 3D Scene Reconstruction in Edge Robotics and Augmented Reality Applications
Abstract
A ray-casting accelerator in 10nm CMOS simultaneously casts multiple rays in spatial proximity to exploit voxel data-locality, featuring a near-memory search for voxel address overlaps and opportunistic approximate trilinear interpolation for energy savings. Measurements demonstrate ray-casting of 320×240 depth images with an average latency of 23.2ms/frame, while consuming 32.7pJ energy per ray-step and achieving a maximum energy-efficiency of 115.3 giga raysteps/W.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/VLSICircuits18222.2020.9163067
VLSI Circuits
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
14
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Monodeep Kar15312.66
Amit Agarwal269372.95
S. K. Hsu352152.06
David Moloney4127.69
Gregory K. Chen5221.64
Raghavan Kumar67312.56
Huseyin Sumbul762.29
Phil Knag8183.17
Mark Anders931550.81
Himanshu Kaul1045651.07
Jonathan Byrne1100.34
Luca Sarti1200.34
Ram Krishnamurthy1365074.63
Vivek De143024577.83