Title : 
A 1V CMOS active pixel sensor with enhanced dynamic range
         
        
            Author : 
Weng, Ro-Min ; Yen, Chen-Lun ; Liu, Chun-Yu
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Dong Hwa Univ., Hualien
         
        
        
            fDate : 
Nov. 30 2008-Dec. 3 2008
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A low voltage wide dynamic range CMOS active pixel sensor (APS) using 0.18 mum standard CMOS process is presented. The dynamic range of the proposed APS is 42 dB and it is twelve times more than a conventional CMOS APS architecture. The power consumption of the APS is 86 nW at 1 V supply. The fill factor is about 40% with 11 mum times 11 mum pixel size.
         
        
            Keywords : 
CMOS image sensors; low-power electronics; power consumption; APS architecture; CMOS active pixel sensor; enhanced dynamic range; low voltage sensor; power 86 nW; power consumption; size 0.18 mum; voltage 1 V; CMOS image sensors; CMOS process; Channel bank filters; Circuits; Dynamic range; Lighting; Low voltage; Photodiodes; Switches; Threshold voltage;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Circuits and Systems, 2008. APCCAS 2008. IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Macao
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2341-5
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2342-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/APCCAS.2008.4746047