Range finding sensor in 90nm CMOS with bridge correlator based background light suppression

ESSCIRC 2010 - 36th European Solid State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 298-301

  Davidovic, Milos ^a   Zach, Gerald ^a,b   Schneider Hornstein, Kerstin ^a   Zimmermann, Horst ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b RIEGL LASER MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

90 NM TECHNOLOGY; 90NM CMOS; ADVANCED PROCESS; BACKGROUND ILLUMINATION; BACKGROUND LIGHT SUPPRESSION; DISTANCE INFORMATION; DISTANCE SENSORS; HIGH FILL FACTORS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; PIXEL SENSORS; POWER CONSUMPTION; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SINGLE PIXEL; STANDARD DEVIATION; TIME OF FLIGHT;

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PIXELS; RANGE FINDERS; RANGE FINDING;

SENSORS;

EID: 78650353323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2010.5619703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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