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A dead-time free global shutter CMOS image sensor with in-pixel LOFIC and ADC using pixel-wis e connections

Sugo et al., 2016

Document ID
148874672627531411
Author
Sugo H
Wakashima S
Kuroda R
Yamashita Y
Sumi H
Wang T
Chou P
Hsu M
Sugawa S
Publication year
Publication venue
2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits)

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An almost 100% temporal aperture (dead-time free) global shutter (GS) stacked CMOS image sensor (CIS) with in-pixel lateral overflow integration capacitor (LOFIC), ADC and DRAM is developed using pixel-wise connections. The prototype chip with 6.6 µm-pitch VGA …
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