• DocumentCode
    3462285
  • Title

    A 3MPixel Multi-Aperture Image Sensor with 0.7μm Pixels in 0.11μm CMOS

  • Author

    Fife, Keith ; Gamal, Abbas El ; Wong, H. -S Philip

  • Author_Institution
    Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    3-7 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    48
  • Lastpage
    594
  • Abstract
    In this paper we describe the first complete MA-imager chip comprising a 166x76 array of 16x16, 0.7mum pixel FT-CCD apertures, per-column ADCs, control logic and chip readout circuits fabricated in 0.11mum CMOS technology. The aperture control buses are globally connected to the FT-CCDs. The RS signal and the decoded ROW bus are used to address the readout circuits for each row of FT-CCDs. The MUX blocks contain column bias circuitry, inputs for external testing of the ADC and support for analog pixel readout through AOUT. The ADCs share an output bus that is decoded by COL and buffered for digital readout.
  • Keywords
    CCD image sensors; CMOS integrated circuits; analogue-digital conversion; digital readout; field buses; ADC; CMOS technology; FT-CCD apertures; MA-imager chip; analog pixel readout; aperture control buses; chip readout circuits; column bias circuitry; control logic; digital readout; multiaperture image sensor; picture size 3 Mpixel; size 0.11 mum; size 0.7 mum; Apertures; Buffer storage; CMOS image sensors; CMOS technology; Charge transfer; Electrodes; Image sensors; Pixel; Sensor arrays; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ISSCC 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2010-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2011-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523050
  • Filename
    4523050