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News Release from: Cypress Semiconductor | Subject: LUPA-1300-2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 October 2007
Image sensor suits machine vision
applications
The 1.3Mpixel LUPA-1300-2 sensor offers a frame rate of 500 frames a second and a windowing capability that delivers undistorted images and fast readout.
Cypress Semiconductor has released a high-sensitivity, high-speed SXGA (super extended graphics array) resolution CMOS image sensor The new 1.3Mpixel LUPA-1300-2 sensor is the industry's first to offer a triggered and pipelined synchronous shutter and on-chip digital LVDS (low voltage differential signalling) outputs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Developed for machine vision and motion analysis applications, the image sensor features a frame rate of 500 frames a second and a windowing capability that delivers undistorted images and fast readout.
The LUPA-1300-2 features a fully synchronous snapshot shutter, making it possible to read one image while the next is being acquired and to capture moving objects without distortion.
The sensor has 12 x 10bit digital LVDS outputs that allow image data to be transferred over longer distances on the circuit board, simplifying layout.
The windowing capability enables the user to read out only regions of interest in the image, increasing the effective frame rate.
It also has a multiple slope capability to maintain good contrast in shadowed regions without saturating bright areas in scenes with a high contrast ratio.
"The combination of exceptionally high sensitivity, fast frame rate, snapshot shutter mode and digital LVDS outputs offered by the LUPA-1300-2 is unmatched by other SXGA CMOS image sensors", said Cliff Drowley, Vice President of Cypress' Image Sensor Business Unit.
The LUPA-1300-2 has 1280 x 1024 pixel with 14 x 14um pixel size.
The image sensor integrates a programmable offset and gain amplifier for each channel of the LVDS outputs.
Each channel runs at a 61MHz pixel rate, which results in 500 frames a second frame rate at full resolution.
Higher frame rates can be achieved by windowed or subsampled readout modes, which are all programmable over the SPI interface.
All internal exposure and read-out timings are generated by an on-board sequencer.
The intra-scene dynamic range can be increased by using the flexible multiple slope operation mode.
The LUPA-1300-2 also features a 10bit on-chip analogue-to-digital convertor (ADC) for digital output and on-chip timing control for easy application development.
The image sensor is currently available in monochrome with an RGB version in development.
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