A 1.5-V 550-/spl mu/W 176/spl times/144 autonomous CMOS active pixel image sensor |
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Authors: | Kwang-Bo Cho Krymski AI Fossum ER |
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Affiliation: | Micron Technol. Inc., Pasadena, CA, USA; |
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Abstract: | This paper addresses the development of a micropower 176/spl times/144 CMOS active pixel image sensor that dissipates one to two orders of magnitude less power than current state-of-the-art CMOS image sensors. The chip operates from a 1.5-V voltage source and the power consumption measured for the chip running from an internal 25.2-MHz clock yielding 30 frames per second is about 550 /spl mu/W. This amount enables the sensor to run from a watch battery. In order to achieve design goals, a low-power sensor design methodology is applied throughout the design process from system-level to process-level, while realizing the performance to satisfy the design specification. As an autonomous sensor, it can be operated with only three pads GND, VDD (1.2-1.7 V), DATAOUT]. The die occupies 4 mm/sup 2/ of silicon. |
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