A bio-inspired event-driven digital readout architecture with pixel-level A/D conversion and non-uniformity correction

2011 45th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lin, Joseph H ^a   Pouliquen, Philippe O ^a   Andreou, Andreas G ^a   Goldberg, Arnold C ^b   Rizk, Charbel G ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

90NM CMOS; A/D CONVERSION; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; BIO-INSPIRED; DIGITAL READOUTS; EVENT-BASED; GAIN AND OFFSET; INFRARED IMAGE SENSORS; NONUNIFORMITY CORRECTION; OVERSAMPLED; PHOTON FLUX; PIXEL LEVEL; READOUT INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SYSTEM LEVELS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFRARED IMAGING;

PIXELS;

EID: 79957854786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CISS.2011.5766197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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