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A 10000 frames/s CMOS digital pixel sensor

Kleinfelder et al., 2001

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18293010409927890563
Author
Kleinfelder S
Lim S
Liu X
El Gamal A
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IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

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A 352/spl times/288 pixel CMOS image sensor chip with per-pixel single-slope ADC and dynamic memory in a standard digital 0.18-/spl mu/m CMOS process is described. The chip performs" snapshot" image acquisition, parallel 8-bit A/D conversion, and digital readout at …
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