Veeder K.T. Digital Converters for Image Sensors

SPIE Press, 2015. — 188 p.This book is intended for image sensor professionals and those interested in the boundary between sensor systems and analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design. If you have at least a basic electrical engineering background and are technically interested in how digital image sensors and digital readout integrated circuits are constructed, you might find this book useful. My goal was to provide a broad tutorial for image sensor professionals without getting bogged down in the transistor-level design aspects associated with most converter design texts. It is my hope that this approach will give you a new understanding of the topic and escape the common pitfalls associated with these complex on-chip imaging systems. If you are a designer, I hope that this text will spark your creativity to develop new and useful architectures of your own and point you to more in-depth resources as needed.
To my knowledge, there are currently no textbooks that focus on the details and issues of integrating converters into image sensors. There are many textbooks and tutorial papers available for digital converter design; there are also many books and tutorial papers available for image sensor design for both infrared and visible sensors. These are focused more broadly on the entire imaging system or narrowly on one particular type of digital converter signal chain. Unfortunately, these references do not provide in-depth tips and techniques necessary to understand and implement these two types of complex circuit systems together for a wide variety of architectures or trade off one style versus another. This situation has generated some confusion in the published literature between image-sensor-focused and converter-focused publications. Bridging this gap is useful because much of the visible image sensor industry has adopted digital image sensors, and the infrared industry is rapidly moving in the same direction.Introduction to Digital Image Sensors
Converter Characteristics
DACs Used in ADC Architectures and Read-in ICs
ADC Architectures for Image Sensors
Case Study: Pipeline ADCs
Automatic Calibration and Error Correction
Testing ADCs on Image Sensors