A 2/3-in. 9.5-Mpixel CMOS Imager With High Frame Rate and HDR Capabilities

This study explains the architecture and readout schemes used to achieve a 2/3-in. 9.5-Mpixel complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imager, with 3.6 Gpixels/s enabling high frame-rate operation in native UHD-1/4K ultrahigh-definition (UHD) resolution and full high-dynamic range (HDR) support. The presented imager demonstrates an architecture that supports high spatial and temporal resolutions and a high output data rate. To fulfill the transfer time requirements, an innovative row addressing scheme has been developed to toggle between the different rows.

Print ISSN

1545-0279

Electronic ISSN

2160-2492

Published

2021-06

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), 4K ultrahigh- definition (UHD), high-dynamic range (HDR), imagers, pixel, super-slow-motion (SSM)

DOI

10.5594/JMI.2021.3072377