A cyclic A/D converter with pixel noise and column-wise offset canceling for CMOS image sensors

Proceedings of ESSCIRC 2005: 31st European Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 411-414

  Furuta, Masanori ^a   Kawahito, Shoji ^a   Inoue, Toru ^b   Nishikawa, Yukinari ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Chiyodafujimi Bldg   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CALIBRATION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CMOS IMAGE SENSORS; DIFFERENTIAL NON-LINEARITY (DNL); INTEGRAL NON-LINEARITY (INL); PIXEL NOISE;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 33749169486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIR.2005.1541647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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