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Jeongho Lee1, Ilku Nam2, DooHyung Woo1
1School of Information, Communications and Electronics Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea, Gyeonggi-do 14662, Korea.
Abstract:
A readout circuit incorporating a pixel-level analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is studied for two-dimensional medium wavelength infrared microbolometer arrays. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and charge handling capacity of the unit cell circuit are improved by using the current input pixel-level ADC. The charge handling capacity of the integrator is appropriately extended to maximize the integration time regardless of the magnitude of the input current and low power supply voltage. The readout circuit was fabricated using a 0.35-μm 2-poly 4-metal CMOS process for a 640 × 512 array with a pixel size of 40 μm × 40 μm. The peak SNR and dynamic range are 77.1 and 80.1 dB, respectively, with a power consumption of 0.62 μW per pixel.
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