2 K/spl times/2 K high speed CMOS active pixel sensors for Y2K

Summary form only given. We are developing a 4 M pixel CMOS active pixel image sensor for 200 fps (800 M pixel/s) high speed visible imaging applications. This sensor development is based on our previous design and characterization experience with both our 1280/spl times/720 pixel, 60 fps progressive scan CMOS APS (60 M pixel/s), and our 1024/spl times/1024 pixel, 500 fps (500 M pixel/s) progressive scan CMOS APS. The former had an on-chip 10 b analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and the latter an on-chip 8 b ADC. The latter is presently the world´s highest throughput image sensor, to the best of our knowledge. It dissipates under 400 mW at 500 fps and operates from an approximately 66 MHz master clock with 8 parallel output ports of 8 b each (64 b).