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News Release from: Cypress Semiconductor | Subject: Custom CMOS image sensor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 June 2007
Custom sensor enables holographic data
storage
Cypress Semiconductor Corp has developed a novel CMOS image sensor solution for the InPhase Tapestry holographic data storage system.
Cypress Semiconductor Corp has developed a novel CMOS image sensor solution for the InPhase Tapestry holographic data storage system Cypress and InPhase have been working since 2005 to develop an ultrasensitive and ultrafast CMOS image sensor to meet the high-speed reading of data recorded by InPhase's Tapestry drive
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The imager enables data to be read at 500 frames per second.
"Cypress's imaging expertise was critical to the development of our holographic drive", says Nelson Diaz, CEO of InPhase.
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"We have largely redefined how information is stored and read for next generation recording devices - and Cypress has played a significant role in that endeavour".
Holographic storage delivers high capacity by recording data throughout the volume of the recording material, and not just on the surface.
With each flash of the laser, a data page of approximately 1 million bits is recorded.
Each data page is located at a unique address within the material and several hundred pages of data, each with their own unique address, are recorded in the same location of the medium.
Each of these collections of data pages is then referred to as a "book".
This new recording technique enables more holograms to be stored in the same volume of material by overlapping not only pages, but also books of data.
This dramatically increases the storage density.
"The next generation of imaging products will require massive amounts of storage in small form factors".
"We believe that our work with InPhase on the first holographic drive positions Cypress as a leading supplier of the imaging component", says Cliff Drowley, Vice President for Cypress's Image Sensor Business Unit.
"The consumer and professional imaging worlds are converging, and higher-yield lower-cost products are required to continue the progress of optical recording".
"The InPhase Tapestry drive is a seminal touchpoint in this delicate area of technical development".
Cypress's customer specific CMOS image sensor designs address applications such as high-speed motion analysis, industrial and medical X-ray imaging, endoscopy, barcode readers, high-speed line sensors, and star tracking and remote sensing for space.
Cypress's new sensor offerings address the trend to have digital LVDS outputs for high-speed sensors, as demonstrated with proven custom designs for holographic data storage readers.
Cypress's custom image sensor approach is to provide full turnkey solutions for customers, including design services, package and test development, product prototyping and characterisation, production setup and production logistics management.
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