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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2015
Intrinsix Corporation, Marlborough, MA (US);
Eugene M. Petilli, Victor, NY (US);
Intrinsix Corporation, Marlborough, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides an imager readout architecture utilizing analog-to-digital converters (ADC), the architecture comprising a band-limited sigma delta modulator (SDM) ADC; and a serpentine readout, which can be configured to allow the band-limited SDM to multiplex between multiple columns by avoiding discontinuities at the edges of a row. SDM ADC image reconstruction artifacts are minimized using a modified serpentine read out methodology, the methodology comprising using primary and redundant slices with the serpentine read out in opposite directions and averaging the slices. Advantageously, the invention can be used to develop a read out integrated circuit (ROIC) for strained layer superlattice imagers (SLS) using sigma delta modulator (SDM) based analog to digital converters (SDM ADC).