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News Release from: Avago Technologies | Subject: ADCC-3000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 February 2006
Sensor upgrades megapixel handset
designs
A new quarter-inch optical format 1.3Mpixel CMOS image sensor features enhanced-performance pixel architecture and image-pipe processing technology.
Avago Technologies has introduced a quarter-inch optical format 1.3Mpixel CMOS image sensor featuring the company's enhanced-performance (EP) pixel architecture and image-pipe processing technology The sensor is one of the few 1.3Mpixel sensors that fits easily into the industry's smallest (8 x 8 x 5mm) low-profile camera modules
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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With the increasing popularity of thin-profile camera phones, manufacturers are requiring smaller modules with no reduction in performance and image quality.
The Avago ADCC-3000 achieves these size requirements while enhancing the picture quality beyond existing megapixel sensors.
The Avago ADCC-3000 enables handset manufacturers to upgrade their quarter-inch VGA (video graphics array) resolution cameras to the new quarter-inch 1.3Mpixel camera with a 4x increase in resolution and the ability to take sharper, truer colour photos under all lighting conditions.
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"We've raised the bar for megapixel price and performance with our industry-best, one-quarter inch CMOS camera-on-a-chip", said James Stewart, Vice President and General Manager of Avago Technologies' Imaging Solutions Division.
"This is the only one-quarter inch megapixel image sensor capable of producing high-quality, digital still-camera-like images and camcorder-like video, while accommodating today's ultraslim camera phones".
"With its EP architecture and image pipe, this 1.3Mpixel sensor outperforms the competition's 1, 2 and 3Mpixel sensors at all light levels to produce sharper, clearer photos".
"Avago Technologies' one-quarter inch Mpixel sensor meets and exceeds our needs for high image quality, small form factor, and strong technical support", said Mike Burger, Senior Vice President of Flextronics' Components Division.
"We are thrilled by the overall performance of the ADCC-3000 and are committed to integrating it into modules for our OEM customers".
"Our relationship and strong partnership with Flextronics, the leading camera module provider, has enabled both of us to maximise our success in this market by jointly targeting OEM design wins", said Stewart.
The ADCC-3000's EP pixel architecture reduces dark current and noise, and removes the lens shading effect to offer breakthrough low-light CMOS sensor performance that rivals CCD sensors.
Its new dynamic range expander enables outstanding contrast, and a new proprietary exposure control adjusts picture brightness without increasing noise linearly or washing out colours, as commonly occurs with existing cameras.
The ADCC-3000 is built for superior video and action shots, enabling high image data velocity and reduced image lag.
The image-pipe processor is specifically tuned to Avago's EP pixel architecture and uniquely accommodates a wide range of lighting conditions, from indoor to sunlight to fluorescent, and enhances overexposed or underexposed images.
The ADCC-3000's image pipe adjusts white balance and colour, and corrects anomalies, including lens shadows, geometric distortion, reduced picture focus at the edge of the lens, and digital sensor noise.
Unlike many third-party graphics processors, Avago's image pipe is tightly coupled with the CMOS sensor, resulting in better colours, higher contrast, truer skin tones and picture rendering that is highly adaptive to varying light, shadows and movement.
The ADCC-3000 sensor is capable of 15 frames per second at full 1280 x 1024 pixel SXGA (super extended graphics) resolution, and 30 frames per second in 640 x 480 pixel VGA mode.
The ADCC-3000 contains several digital still-camera- and camcorder-like image-processing features.
The ADCC-3000 CMOS camera-on-a-chip is sampling now through Avago Technologies' direct sales channel. Request a free brochure from Avago Technologies ...
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