Design of a low-light-level image sensor with on-chip sigma-delta analog-to-digital conversion

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 1900, Issue , 1993, Pages 31-39

  Mendis, Sunetra K ^a   Pain, Bedabrata ^a   Nixon, Robert H ^b   Fossum, Eric R ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; OPTICAL SENSORS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PIXELS; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

A/D CONVERTER; ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR; ANALOG TO DIGITALCONVERSION (A/D); CMOS TECHNOLOGY; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LOW LIGHT LEVEL; LOW-LIGHT-LEVEL IMAGE; SEMI-PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 84889538329     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.148606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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