From sensors to microsystems: a case study

Author

Bui, N.C. ; Visalli, G. ; Monney, P. ; Vitous, V.

Author_Institution

MICROSWISS, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

fYear

1995

fDate

34978

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

28

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to describe the development of an optical interface used in the system REGISTRON of BOBST for the alignment of paper in a rotary printing press. This alignment is based on the detection of small repairs preprinted on the paper. This miniaturisation and the cost optimisation leads to a system based on two ASICs: one ASIC including 8 photodiodes integrated with their transimpedance amplifier in a CMOS standard process and one ASIC which performs the operations of multiplexing, amplifying the signals delivered by 32 photodiodes. While the first ASIC is designed in full-custom, the second ASIC is realised in a mixed-mode gate-array

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; fibre optic sensors; integrated optoelectronics; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; multiplexing equipment; photodiodes; position control; printing; ASICs; CMOS standard process; REGISTRON; cost optimisation; microsystems; mixed-mode gate-array; multiplexing; optical interface; paper alignment; photodiodes; rotary printing press; sensors; transimpedance amplifier; Application specific integrated circuits; Computer aided software engineering; Head; Multiplexing; Optical amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical sensors; Photodiodes; Printing machinery; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Technologies, Intelligent Vision, 1995. AT'95

Conference_Location

Yverdon

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2943-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AT.1995.535972

Filename

535972