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Record CCD image sensor has 111 million pixels
Peter Clarke
EE Times
(06/19/2006 9:46 AM EDT)
LONDON — Dalsa Semiconductor has fabricated an image sensor with more than 111 million pixels. The company claims the 4 x 4-inch charge-coupled device, configured as 10,560 x 10,560 pixels, is the world's highest-resolution image sensor and the first to break the 100 million-pixel barrier.
Dalsa, a division of Dalsa Corp. (Waterloo, Ontario), said it has delivered the chip to Semiconductor Technology Associates (STA; San Juan Capistrano, Calif.).
STA developed the chip for the Astrometry Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory with funding from the Navy's Small Business Innovation Research program. Dalsa manufactured the device for STA at its wafer fabrication facility in Bromont, Quebec.
Posted by Mark Aultman on June 20, 2006 at 8:12 PM
Just think of the micro-electronics hell that will result when the manufacturer tells the product engineer that he has to hook this up to a memory buffer and storage device. Or - considering the customer - that it has to have minimal noise over a multi-second exposure.
Still, I wouldn't mind hooking it up to the back of a 4x5 and taking it for a spin. Think they'd loan it to us as a trial market?
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Record CCD image sensor has 111 million pixels
Peter Clarke
EE Times
(06/19/2006 9:46 AM EDT)
LONDON — Dalsa Semiconductor has fabricated an image sensor with more than 111 million pixels. The company claims the 4 x 4-inch charge-coupled device, configured as 10,560 x 10,560 pixels, is the world's highest-resolution image sensor and the first to break the 100 million-pixel barrier.
Dalsa, a division of Dalsa Corp. (Waterloo, Ontario), said it has delivered the chip to Semiconductor Technology Associates (STA; San Juan Capistrano, Calif.).
STA developed the chip for the Astrometry Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory with funding from the Navy's Small Business Innovation Research program. Dalsa manufactured the device for STA at its wafer fabrication facility in Bromont, Quebec.
Still, I wouldn't mind hooking it up to the back of a 4x5 and taking it for a spin. Think they'd loan it to us as a trial market?