• DocumentCode
    1840432
  • Title

    Low power linear current mode imager with 1.5 transistors per pixel

  • Author

    Gruev, Viktor ; Yang, Zheng ; Spiegel, Jan Van der

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Syst. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    18-21 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    2142
  • Lastpage
    2145
  • Abstract
    A novel 1.5 transistors per pixel linear current mode active pixel sensor (APS) is presented. The photo pixel address switch is placed outside the pixel, effectively implementing 1.5 transistors per pixel using a sharing scheme of the read-out and reset transistor. The column FPN of 0.4% and SNR of 43 dB is measured. The total power consumption is 5 mW at 30 fps. A theoretical framework for optimizing temporal and spatial noise is presented.
  • Keywords
    image sensors; transistors; noise figure 43 dB; photopixel address; pixel linear current mode active pixel sensor; power 5 mW; power consumption; read-out-reset transistor; sharing scheme; spatial noise; temporal noise; transistors; CMOS technology; Circuits; Energy consumption; High-resolution imaging; Image sensors; Photodiodes; Pixel; Sensor arrays; Signal to noise ratio; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2008. ISCAS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1683-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1684-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4541874
  • Filename
    4541874