PROCESSING AND SERIAL TRANSMISSION OF MICROARRAY IMAGES

: in this paper we present a novel pipeline architecture specifically designed to process and compress dna microarray images. many of the pixilated image generation methods produce one row of the image at a time. this property is fully exploited by a pipeline that takes in one row of the produced image at each clock pulse and performs the necessary image processing steps on it. this will remove the present need for sluggish software routines that are considered a major bottleneck in the microarray technology. two different structures are proposed for compressing these particular images. the size of every proposed structure is a function of the width of the image and not its length. the proposed architecture is proved to be highly modular, scalable and suited for a standard cell vlsi implementation.