{"id":1677,"date":"2017-06-01T09:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T09:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2017-06-01T09:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T09:11:32","slug":"international-image-sensor-workshop-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"International Image Sensor Workshop (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts about day 3 :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Several ADC papers were presented, with a common motivation : hybrid ADC solution for the image sensor application : Tokyo Institute of Technology highlighted a SAR in combination with a delta-sigma ADC (without indicating the number of bits in their paper), University of Oxford combined a single-slope with a TDC solution to realize a fast 12-bit ADC, Teledyne DALSA presented a fast SS-ADC used in their TDI-CCD\/CMOS combination, Teledyne Anafocus came up with a column-parallel solution based on two-stage oversampled converters, and finally Olympus presented a SS-ADC with a operation-period-reduced TDC to increase the conversion speed and keep the power consumption low.<\/li>\n<li>In between all those ADC papers, Delft University showed an on-chip digital calibration technique to correct the non-linearity of the pixels. \u00a0Actually this calibration technique is based on &#8220;shaping&#8221; the ramp of the SS-ADC, so also this paper was referring to ADC related stuff.<\/li>\n<li>In the final session of day 3 a collection of papers was presented on various topics. \u00a0JPL gave an overview and update of their latest image sensor work, university of Toronto talked about a CMOS architecture fo a so-called primal-dual coding with on-chip programmable masking techniques for the pixels (pixels are based on a good-old photogate), Sony re-presented their ISSCC paper on a stacked device with a very powerful 140 GOPS column parallel processing capability, and the session was closed by IMEC reporting a high-speed BSI version of their TDI CCD-CMOS combination. \u00a0Quite a bit of CTI-, noise-, MTF- and dark-current measurement data was shown in this last presentation with the comment of the speaker that there is still room to improve considering the performance of the device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Albert, 01-06-2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts about day 3 : Several ADC papers were presented, with a common motivation : hybrid ADC solution for the image sensor application : Tokyo Institute of Technology highlighted a SAR in combination with a delta-sigma ADC (without indicating the number of bits in their paper), University of Oxford combined a single-slope with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}