A novel reitna chip with simple wiring for edge extraction

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A novel silicon retina chip based on the information processing in the vertebrate retina was designed. The chip has a novel wiring structure in which all pixels are connected through the channel of MOS transistors, which simplifies a wiring structure compared with conventional resistive networks. The proposed structure minimizes the pixel area and certainly increases a fill factor since each pixel consists of only two photodiodes and three MOS transistors. It also enables the chip to operate over a wide range of light intensity by adjusting its conductance with the gate voltage. Simulation results with SPICE showed that the chip could extract the edge of input images successfully.