e2v Announces 2MP Global Shutter Sensor

e2v announces 2MP EV76C570 sensor joining its industrial CMOS image sensor range. The device retains optical compatibility with the 1.3MP Sapphire sensor that is already in production. A 1/1.8 inch optical format is retained thanks to the reduced pixel size of 4.5µm.

The feature list is shared with the 1.3MP version:

• Both rolling and global shutter configuration with 3000:1 global shutter efficiency
• 60fps at full resolution with 120MHz clock
• 4x separately configurable regions of interest including the possibility to program each window with separate exposure and gain settings
• A histogram embedded in the footer of the image data field for image statistics to reduce the processing overhead for auto exposure/gain algorithms
• A lin/log pixel response mode for HDR image capture
• A 10 Bit parallel output which can be compressed to 8 bits using a multi-slope companding technique.