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Xie, S. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)
This paper presents a CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a zoom ADC, to quantize in-pixel temperature sensors, as well as for faster readout speed of the image pixels while maintaining low quantization noise. The proposed 15 bit zoom ADC has a 4 bit Unit Capacitor Array (UCA) SAR and a 13 bit incremental 2<sup>nd</sup>-order delta-sigma ADC (DSADC)...
journal article 2020
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Xie, S. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)
This brief proposes a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) whose readout speed is improved by 33%, through applying a digital error correction (DEC) method, compared to an alternative without using the DEC technique. The proposed addition-only DEC alleviates the ADC's incomplete settling errors, hence...
journal article 2020
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Xie, S. (author), Abarca Prouza, A.N. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)
This brief proposes employing each of the classical 4 transistor (4T) pinned photodiode (PPD) CMOS image sensor (CIS) pixels, for both imaging and temperature measurement, intended for compensating the CISs' dark current, and dark signal non-uniformity (DSNU). The proposed temperature sensors rely on the thermal behavior of MOSFETs working in...
journal article 2020
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Xie, S. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)
This paper presents methodologies for suppressing the spatial and the temporal noise in a CMOS image sensor (CIS). First of all, it demonstrates by using a longer-length column bias transistor, both the fixed pattern noise (FPN) and temporal noise can be suppressed. Meantime, it employs column-level oversampling delta-sigma ADCs to suppress...
journal article 2019
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Xie, S. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)
This paper analyzes and compensates for process and temperature dependency among a (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) CMOS image sensor (CIS) array. Both the analysis and compensation are supported with experimental results on the CIS’s dark current, dark signal non-uniformity (DSNU), and conversion gain (CG). To model and to...
journal article 2019
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Abarca Prouza, A.N. (author), Xie, S. (author), Markenhof, Jules (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)
In this work, a novel approach for measuring relative temperature variations across the active area of a CMOS image sensor itself is presented. 555 Image pixels have been replaced by temperature sensors pixels (Tixels) in the same pixel array layer. Both sensors, pixels and Tixels, utilize the same readout structure to obtain the data. This...
journal article 2018
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Xie, N. (author)
A digital sun sensor is superior to an analog sun sensor in aspects of resolution, albedo immunity, and integration. The proposed Micro-Digital Sun Sensor (µDSS) is an autonomous digital sun sensor which is implemented by means of a CMOS image sensor, which is named APS+. The µDSS is designed specifically for micro-satellite application which...
doctoral thesis 2012
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