More ISSCC 2010 Presentations

There are few more interesting presentations at ISSCC 2010. One of them is Sony plenary paper:

Challenges of Image-Sensor Development

Tomoyuki Suzuki, Senior Vice-President, Sony, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan

...Recently, a 10M pixel CMOS image sensor with high image quality, providing more than 70dB dynamic range, and high-speed read-out of 576M pixels/s (10M pixels at 50 frames/s) has been developed. This sensor can also be operated in a 6M pixel mode at 60 frames/s with a 16:9 aspect
ratio. This imager has been realized using two important technologies: the column ADC, and the back-illuminated structure.

...In the future, the performance of the digital camera is expected to improve tremendously with the evolution of the CMOS image sensor. There are many “key milestones” in this evolution, such as “3D”, “4K×2K”, “global shutter”, and so on.

Forum 4, page 73 is entirely devoted to high-speed imaging technologies (there is a mistake in forum name on the Advanced Program contents page):

Introduction
Johannes Solhusvik, Aptina Imaging, Oslo, Norway

High-Speed CMOS Pixel Physics and Electronics
Boyd Fowler, Fairchild Imaging, Milpitas, CA

High-Speed Imaging with CCDs
Jan Bosiers, DALSA, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

High-Speed CMOS Image Sensor Architectures
Guy Meynants, CMOSIS, Antwerp, Belgium

Column Readout Circuit Design for High-Speed Low-Noise Imaging
Shoji Kawahito, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan

3D Range Image Capture Technologies
Makoto Ikeda, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

High-Speed Digital Image Processing
Levy Gerzberg, Zoran, Sunnyvale, CA

Vision Chip and its Applications to Human Interface, Inspection, Bio/Medical Industry, and Robotics
Masatoshi Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

High-Speed Analog Interfaces for Imagers
Katsu Nakamura, Analog Devices, Wilmington, MA

High-Speed Digital Interfaces for Imagers
Jean Dassonville, Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA