Compact current input oversampling modulator design for a scalable high frame rate focal plane arrays

Author

Joo, Youngjoong ; Brooke, Martin A. ; Jokerst, Nan M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

9

Abstract

This paper demonstrates a compact current input oversampling modulator for scalable high frame rate focal plane arrays. This smart pixel architecture with the proposed compact current input oversampling modulator is intended for scientific imagers with frame rates around 100 kfps operating in continuous imaging mode. All the circuits including data lines and detectors fit into a 125 micron×125 micron cell using 0.8 micron CMOS technology. Test results on a 8×8 demonstration focal-plane-array show operation at over 100 MHz sampling rate which represents a 60 kfps 8 bit per pixel image capture rate

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; focal planes; image sampling; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; modulators; readout electronics; smart pixels; 0.8 mum; 100 MHz; CMOS technology; compact current input oversampling; continuous imaging mode; current input oversampling modulator; data lines; image capture rate; sampling rate; scalable high frame rate focal plane arrays; scientific imagers; smart pixel architecture; Analog-digital conversion; CMOS technology; Circuits; Detectors; Digital filters; Dynamic range; Filtering; High-resolution imaging; Image processing; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2000. Proceedings. ISCAS 2000 Geneva. The 2000 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Geneva

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5482-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2000.857350

Filename

857350