Harvest Imaging Forum Agenda

Harvest Imaging announces its 2017 Forum Agenda “Noise in Analog Devices and Circuits” by Christian Enz:

• Introduction
• Random signals and noise, Main noise sources of circuit components
• Noise models of basic components
• Noise Calculations in Circuits
• Noise calculation in continuous-time (CT) circuits
• Noise sampling
• Noise calculation in switched-capacitor (SC) circuits
• Noise simulation
• Trade-offs between Noise and Power Consumption
• The simplified EKV MOS transistor model
• The concept of inversion coefficient and the design methodology
• Basic trade-offs in analog design
• Figures-of-merit (FoMs) as design guidelines, Key FoMs parameters extraction
• Noise and Offset Reduction Techniques
• Switch nonidealities
• The Autozero (AZ) technique
• The Chopper Stabilization (CS) technique
• Recent trends in noise and offset reduction techniques
• Example of a Low-noise CMOS Imager
• CMOS image sensors (CIS)
• Noise reduction in CIS
• A sub 0.5erms noise VGA imager in standard CMOS
• Future improvements