Boosted CMOS APS Pixel Readout for Ultra Low-Voltage and Low-Power Operation
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...Detailed analysis of the input/output range and the improvement ranges for different boosting techniques could be found in [12]....
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...SEL signal is boosted during the IM through a global single shot booster further improving both linearity and dynamic range of the PSF, [19]....
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...The PMOS reset transistor can pull the FD node to with no threshold drop extending the dynamic range of the PSF. SEL signal is boosted during the IM through a global single shot booster further improving both linearity and dynamic range of the PSF, [19]....
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...Since only the column circuitry is altered in the proposed technique and the original pixel topology remains unchanged, it can be concomitantly used with the high dynamic range (HDR) boosting techniques.(16-18) This paper is organized as follows....
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...NL % ð Þ 1⁄4 VOUT−VOUT;lin VOUT;max−VOUT;min ⋅100%; (18)...
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"Boosted CMOS APS Pixel Readout for ..." refers methods in this paper
...Those are as follows: use of special low-VTH CMOS processes and transistors, bootstrapping [12], charge pump methods [13]–[15], switched opamp technique [16], floating-gate-based circuits [17], and threshold modulation techniques [18], [19]....
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"Boosted CMOS APS Pixel Readout for ..." refers methods in this paper
...Those are as follows: use of special low-VTH CMOS processes and transistors, bootstrapping [12], charge pump methods [13]–[15], switched opamp technique [16], floating-gate-based circuits [17], and threshold modulation techniques [18], [19]....
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"Boosted CMOS APS Pixel Readout for ..." refers methods in this paper
...This is mainly because the SBT used does not use high-speed charge pumps but a single-shot relaxed booster circuit....
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...Recently, a mixed-signal design technique, called supplyboosting technique (SBT) [20], was demonstrated in standard CMOS processes containing high-VTH transistors achieving low-power and low-voltage operations, [21]....
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...In this paper, it is demonstrated that the SBT is well suited for 3T CMOS APS imagers, resulting in low-voltage, low-power, and wider operating ranges, particularly when the supply voltage is reduced way below the process supply voltage on the order of the threshold voltages of the MOSFETs....
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