Amplifier circuit for enabling power efficient and faster pixel settling in image sensors

A Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) Image Sensor (CIS), includes a pixel circuit, a VSL circuit, and an amplifier. The pixel circuit may generate a reset voltage and a signal voltage, based on a power supply connected to the pixel circuit and/or intensity of light captured by the pixel...

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Hauptverfasser: Chowdhury, Ankush, Saha, Anurup, Govindarajan, Madhusudan, Chigatapu, M Satya Chaitanya
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) Image Sensor (CIS), includes a pixel circuit, a VSL circuit, and an amplifier. The pixel circuit may generate a reset voltage and a signal voltage, based on a power supply connected to the pixel circuit and/or intensity of light captured by the pixel circuit. The VSL circuit may store pixel information in a pixel load based on settling a voltage at the pixel load to the signal voltage and/or set the voltage at the pixel load to a pixel reset voltage based on settling the voltage at the pixel load to the reset voltage. The amplifier may generate a voltage, based on varying a resistance at an input of the amplifier, to enable the VSL circuit to store the pixel information and/or set the voltage at the pixel load to the pixel reset voltage.