A global-shutter CMOS image sensor with readout speed of 1Tpixel/s burst and 780Mpixel/s continuous

Abstract

This paper presents a 400 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">H</sup> ×256 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">V</sup> pixel CMOS image sensor including 128 on-chip memory/pixel with 1Tpixel/s in burst operation without cooling and 780Mpixel/s in continuous operation. To improve the read-out speed from the chip, a noise-reduction circuit in pixel and relay buffers is introduced.