Fault tolerant active pixel sensors for large area digital imaging systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5356, Issue , 2004, Pages 142-153

  Cheung, Desmond Y H ^a   Chapman, Glenn H ^a   Djaja, Sunjaya ^a   Audet, Yves ^b   Wai, Bob ^a   Jung, Cory ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active pixel sensor; APS; CMOS image sensor; Fault tolerant; Large area imaging system; Photodiode; Photogate; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; REDUNDANCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS (APS); DIGITAL IMAGE DETECTORS; PHOTOGATES;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 3543119492     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.529923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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