ON Semiconductor CCD Image Sensor Delivers Enhanced Performance for Industrial Inspection
Posted: 2014-7-19
ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN ), driving energy efficient innovations, is
enhancing the charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor portfolio recently
acquired from Truesense Imaging with new technology that improves imaging
performance for industrial applications.
The new KAI-08051 Image Sensor provides improved light sensitivity, reduced
read noise, and improved color accuracy compared to the previous generation
device, expanding opportunities for 8 megapixel image capture in demanding
imaging applications such as Intelligent Traffic, Surveillance, Medical Imaging,
and Industrial Inspection.
"CCD image sensors continue to provide the critical image quality required in
many key applications," said Chris McNiffe, Vice President, Image Sensor
Business unit at ON Semiconductor. "The enhanced performance available from
the new KAI-08051 Image Sensor reflects our on-going commitment to improve
the capability of our existing products and to deliver the industry’s most
advanced image sensors using both CCD and CMOS technology."
The KAI-08051 Image Sensor shares the same advanced 5.5 micron pixel
architecture, 8 megapixel resolution, 15 frame per second readout rate, and 4/3
optical format as the existing KAI-08050 Image Sensor, but improves key
performance parameters through the use of an improved amplifier design, newly
optimized microlens structure, and new color filter pigments in both Bayer and
Sparse color configurations. The KAI-08051 is backward compatible with the
KAI-08050, requiring at most minor modifications to the firmware used in
existing camera designs. This allows the new image sensor to retain "Plug-and-
Play" interoperability with the full family of 5.5-micron Interline Transfer CCD
devices, enabling a single camera design to support image sensors ranging in
resolution from 1 to 29 megapixels.
The KAI-08051 Image Sensor is now in production and is available in
Monochrome, Bayer Color, and Sparse Color configurations. An evaluation kit is
available that allows the imaging performance of this new device to be quickly
and easily examined in detail without the need to develop a full camera design.
For technical questions, please contact ON Semiconductor at (585) 784-5500 or
info@truesenseimaging.com . Visit our blog at www.onsemi.com/blog .
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About ON Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor ONNN +3.32% is driving energy efficient innovations,
empowering customers to reduce global energy use. The company offers a
comprehensive portfolio of energy efficient power and signal management, logic,
discrete and custom solutions to help design engineers solve their unique design
challenges in automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial,
LED lighting, medical, military/aerospace and power supply applications . ON
Semiconductor operates a responsive, reliable, world-class supply chain and
quality program, and a network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and
design centers in key markets throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia
Pacific regions. For more information, visit http://www.onsemi.com .
ON Semiconductor and the ON Semiconductor logo are registered trademarks of
Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC. All other brand and product names
appearing in this document are registered trademarks or trademarks of their
respective holders. Although the company references its Web site in this news
release, such information on the Web site is not to be incorporated herein.
enhancing the charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor portfolio recently
acquired from Truesense Imaging with new technology that improves imaging
performance for industrial applications.
The new KAI-08051 Image Sensor provides improved light sensitivity, reduced
read noise, and improved color accuracy compared to the previous generation
device, expanding opportunities for 8 megapixel image capture in demanding
imaging applications such as Intelligent Traffic, Surveillance, Medical Imaging,
and Industrial Inspection.
"CCD image sensors continue to provide the critical image quality required in
many key applications," said Chris McNiffe, Vice President, Image Sensor
Business unit at ON Semiconductor. "The enhanced performance available from
the new KAI-08051 Image Sensor reflects our on-going commitment to improve
the capability of our existing products and to deliver the industry’s most
advanced image sensors using both CCD and CMOS technology."
The KAI-08051 Image Sensor shares the same advanced 5.5 micron pixel
architecture, 8 megapixel resolution, 15 frame per second readout rate, and 4/3
optical format as the existing KAI-08050 Image Sensor, but improves key
performance parameters through the use of an improved amplifier design, newly
optimized microlens structure, and new color filter pigments in both Bayer and
Sparse color configurations. The KAI-08051 is backward compatible with the
KAI-08050, requiring at most minor modifications to the firmware used in
existing camera designs. This allows the new image sensor to retain "Plug-and-
Play" interoperability with the full family of 5.5-micron Interline Transfer CCD
devices, enabling a single camera design to support image sensors ranging in
resolution from 1 to 29 megapixels.
The KAI-08051 Image Sensor is now in production and is available in
Monochrome, Bayer Color, and Sparse Color configurations. An evaluation kit is
available that allows the imaging performance of this new device to be quickly
and easily examined in detail without the need to develop a full camera design.
For technical questions, please contact ON Semiconductor at (585) 784-5500 or
info@truesenseimaging.com . Visit our blog at www.onsemi.com/blog .
Follow @onsemi on Twitter : www.twitter.com/onsemi
Follow @åœ%棜ç¾åSå¼ä½" on Weibo : www.weibo.com/onsemiconductor
About ON Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor ONNN +3.32% is driving energy efficient innovations,
empowering customers to reduce global energy use. The company offers a
comprehensive portfolio of energy efficient power and signal management, logic,
discrete and custom solutions to help design engineers solve their unique design
challenges in automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial,
LED lighting, medical, military/aerospace and power supply applications . ON
Semiconductor operates a responsive, reliable, world-class supply chain and
quality program, and a network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and
design centers in key markets throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia
Pacific regions. For more information, visit http://www.onsemi.com .
ON Semiconductor and the ON Semiconductor logo are registered trademarks of
Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC. All other brand and product names
appearing in this document are registered trademarks or trademarks of their
respective holders. Although the company references its Web site in this news
release, such information on the Web site is not to be incorporated herein.
