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This paper reviews architectures and topologies for column-parallel analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) used for CMOS image sensors (CISs) and discusses the performance of CISs using column-parallel ADCs based on figures-of-merit (FoM) with considering noise models which behave differently at low/middle and high pixel-rate regions. Various FoM considering different performance factors are defined. The defined FoM are applied to surveyed data on reported CISs using column-parallel ADCs which are categorized into 4 types; single slope, SAR, cyclic and delta-sigma ADCs. The FoM defined by (noise)2(power)/(pixel-rate) separately for low/middle and high pixel-rate regions well explains the frontline of the CIS' performance in all the pixel rates. Using the FoM defined by (noise)2(power)/(intrascene dynamic range)(pixel-rate), the effectiveness of recently-reported techniques for extended-dynamic-range CISs is clarified.
Shoji KAWAHITO
Shizuoka University
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Shoji KAWAHITO, "Column-Parallel ADCs for CMOS Image Sensors and Their FoM-Based Evaluations" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics,
vol. E101-C, no. 7, pp. 444-456, July 2018, doi: 10.1587/transele.E101.C.444.
Abstract: This paper reviews architectures and topologies for column-parallel analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) used for CMOS image sensors (CISs) and discusses the performance of CISs using column-parallel ADCs based on figures-of-merit (FoM) with considering noise models which behave differently at low/middle and high pixel-rate regions. Various FoM considering different performance factors are defined. The defined FoM are applied to surveyed data on reported CISs using column-parallel ADCs which are categorized into 4 types; single slope, SAR, cyclic and delta-sigma ADCs. The FoM defined by (noise)2(power)/(pixel-rate) separately for low/middle and high pixel-rate regions well explains the frontline of the CIS' performance in all the pixel rates. Using the FoM defined by (noise)2(power)/(intrascene dynamic range)(pixel-rate), the effectiveness of recently-reported techniques for extended-dynamic-range CISs is clarified.
URL: https://global.ieice.org/en_transactions/electronics/10.1587/transele.E101.C.444/_p
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