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News Release from: Tower Semiconductor
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Team on 09 April 2007
Foundry to manufacture CMOS image sensor
A specialist foundry is to manufacture a CMOS image sensor for use in the development of an advanced multispectral polarimetric imager (MSPI) that will be used for the study of atmospheric aerosols.
Tower Semiconductor, an independent specialty foundry, has been chosen by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to manufacture a CMOS image sensor for use in the development of its advanced multispectral polarimetric imager (MSPI) The device makes use of an image sensor process at Tower's Fab1 facility
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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This design is JPL's fifth submission to Tower, dating back to April, 2001.
The previous submissions totaled 28 different designs, with this latest design being the most challenging of the series fabricated for JPL by Tower.
Through its airborne and planned space-borne implementation, the MSPI is intended for the study of atmospheric aerosols.
Making use of complex analogue-digital conversion techniques, the high-speed on-chip 50Msample/s ADC is 9bit square-root-encoded, resulting in the equivalent of 14bit quantisation at low signal levels.
With high quantum efficiency and 10-electron read noise, the imager is suitable for JPL's latest state-of-the-art scientific application which requires flexibility in addressing rows in the imager.
"We are pleased to partner with the highly professional team at JPL, supporting this product's demanding specs", says Dr Avi Strum, General Manager of CIS and NVM product lines at Tower.
"I trust that our long standing relationships will further evolve while we team up to challenge new frontiers in the areas at which JPL excels".
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