A versatile analog front end and timing generator (AFE/TG) integrated circuit has output modes wherein multiple identical AFE/TGs output digitized sensor data to a single digital image processor (DIP) without intervening discrete multiplexing circuitry. In one embodiment, the AFE/TG is operable in either a bit slice mode or a time slice mode. In the bit slice mode, each of the multiple AFE/TGs sections up a word of pixel information into subsets of bits, and then communicates the subsets in parallel, one subset after another, across point-to-point connections to corresponding terminals of the DIP. The DIP captures the subsets of bits, and reassembles the subsets to recreate the word of pixel information. Each of the multiple AFE/TGs communicates words of pixel information to a different set of terminals on the DIP in this way, thereby avoiding timing complications, loading and/or expense associated with communicating the pixel information using time multiplexing techniques.