Saturday, June 25, 2016

Samsung Proposes Different Readout Order to Reduce Column-to-Column ADC Coupling

Samsung Patent application US20160173800 "Image sensor for performing coupling-free readout, and device having the same" by Kyoung Min Koh, Ju Ha Kim, and Jae Cheol Yun talks about the coupling between the column-parallel ADCs:

"A coupling effect is generated between adjacent analog-to-digital converters by parasitic capacitance that is present between the adjacent analog-to-digital converters. In particular, the coupling effect which is increased as a difference between pixels signals becomes large increases non-linearity of each of analog-to-digital converters. The non-linearity is one of sources of errors of an analog-to-digital converter."

Samsung team proposes to change the pixel readout order so that the pixels with similar values read simultaneously:

3 comments:

  1. Interesting idea!
    But shutter-control metal-wirings become much complicated.. I hope the solution for shutter control also written in the patent.

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  2. Can someone make switching between R,G,B filter at every pixel at CFA?

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  3. Wasn't VLSI Vision doing this with their passive CMOS pixels in the 90's?

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