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The ever-increasing resolution of CMOS imagers has had a profound impact on their analog readout electronics, and, in particular, on their ADC architecture. This paper gives an overview of the development of column-parallel ADCs that enable the high-speed and power-efficient read
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This thesis describes the development of low-noise power-efficient analog interface circuitry for CMOS image sensors. It focuses on improving two aspects of the interface circuitry: firstly, lowering the noise in the front-end readout circuit, and secondly the realization of more
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This paper presents a CMOS imager with a column-parallel ADC architecture based on a multiple-ramp single-slope (MRSS) ADC. Like the well-known column-level single-slope ADC, an MRSS ADC uses a very simple analog column circuit, which mainly consists of an analog comparator and s
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A CMOS image sensor uses a column-level ADC with a multiple-ramp single-slope (MRSS) architecture. This architecture has a 3.3times shorter conversion time than classic single-slope architecture with equal power. Like the single-slope ADC, the MRSS ADC requires a single comparato
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In this paper, a 1.8 V 3.2 /spl mu/W comparator is presented. It features a hybrid offset compensation scheme and achieves over 60 dB gain with an input offset below 150 /spl mu/V. The comparator is designed in a 0.18 /spl mu/m CMOS process and is specifically designed to be used
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