CMOS Imager Provides CCD Image Quality

March 31, 2003

A 1.3-Mpixel CMOS image sensor from Micron Technology gives users a progressive scan image that can meet the quality requirements of digital still and digital video cameras. The MI-1300 takes advantage of the company's expertise in low-leakage DRAM manufacturing to achieve CCD-level image quality while benefitting from the lower CMOS manufacturing costs. The image sensor delivers 30 frames/s and has a dark current of just 20 electrons/s. The sensor can maintain a low temporal noise of less than 10 electrons for capturing images at low light levels. For more, go to www.micron.com.

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Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.