Startup launches record resolution 150Mpixel sensor
Gpixel Inc. (Changchun, China), a startup founded in 2013, has designed and produced the world’s highest resolution CMOS image sensor using the TS18IS manufacturing process technology at foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek).
Gpixel’s 150 megapixel full-frame CMOS image sensor (GMAX3005) has a resolution of 30,000 pixels by 5,000 pixels and is intended for use in medical, industrial and scientific imaging markets.
The GMAX3005 is a monochrome CMOS image sensor capable of running at ten frames per second at full frame and with even higher frame rates achieved in row-windowing mode. It has an electronic rolling shutter. Constructed using wafer-scale production techniques it has a die size of 167.6mm by 30.1mm chip size including 165mm x 27.5mm photon-sensitive area. The GMAX3005 has a 16-bit on-chip ADC with 12-bit effective number of bits, and 120 LVDS output pairs running at 200Mbps. The sensor consumes less than 2.5W at full frame rate in full resolution.
GMAX3005 has a dynamic range of 75.4dB, and over 70 percent quantum efficiency at 550nm wavelength.
"We chose TowerJazz’s CMOS image sensor manufacturing process due to its excellent pixel performance, stitching technology for wafer-scale die size, and its outstanding pixel and process customization capabilities," said Xinyang Wang, founder and CEO of Gpixel, in a statement. "We believe China is on its way to become the biggest market in the world for high-end image sensor products and TowerJazz, as our strategic partner, is critical to our success." Tower Semiconductor trades as TowerJazz.
"Gpixel’s GMAX3005 was a first time success due to Gpixel’s design engineers’ very high skills and knowledge of CIS design. We believe Gpixel is the most interesting and promising CIS company in China today," said Avi Strum, vice president and general manager of Tower’s image sensor business unit.
Gpixel was founded in 2013 by experienced CMOS image sensor designers and semiconductor physicists. The company has filed more than 10 patent applications, covering global shuttering, high dynamic range pixels, low-power and high-speed ADCs.
Related news and articles:
News articles:
Ex-Omnivision engineers form image sensor startup
Dual Aperture reveals DSP partner
Slideshow: Top 10 sensor trends to follow
Aptina takes mobile image sensors to 25-Mpixel
CMOS image sensor market on 10% CAGR
Depth-sensing image sensor array touted for smartphones
Top ten CMOS image sensor vendors ranked
Isorg shows thin-film plastic image sensor
NikkoIA gets European money for organic NIR sensor
IR sensor startup preps smartphone bid
If you enjoyed this article, you will like the following ones: don't miss them by subscribing to :
