Electronic Design

Creating On-Chip MEMS Sensors in CMOS

Nanusens' novel approach to creating nanoscale sensor structures inside the CMOS layers. How the methodology helps shrink cost and size. Previously, MEMS sensors were created by employing proprietary ...
Business Wire

Aroma Bit Succeeds in Developing the World's Smallest*1 High-Odor Resolution CMOS Semiconductor-Based Odor Imaging Sensor Chip

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aroma Bit, Inc. (Representative Director & President: Shunichiro Kuroki, Headquarter: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter "Aroma Bit"), a company that plans and develops compact odor ...
Optics

MIT camera chip improves views of neural behavior

A project at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has developed a sensor chip suited in particular to enhanced imaging of neural activity. Described in Nature Communications, the chip ...
Phone Scoop

Sharp Intros 12.1MP CMOS Sensor for Smartphones

Sharp today announced the RJ63YC100, a new back-illuminated CMOS camera sensor for devices such as smartphones that comes in a slim package at 5.7mm thick. The small size will help the sensor fit ...
Engadget

Nikon's Z6 III is the first mirrorless camera with a 'partially-stacked' CMOS sensor

Nikon has introduced the $2,500 Z6 III with the world's first "partially-stacked" 24.5-megapixel (MP) sensor. That allows for high speed shooting in both photo and video modes, while unlocking ...
EDN

Using FPGAs for camera sensor interfaces

The image sensor is arguably the most important component in a digital video or still camera. But these sensors are also notoriously non-standardized. They tend to differ in the schemes used for: ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Snake heat vision inspires 4K imaging that could fit in phones

Snake-inspired thermal vision is moving from the lab toward devices that look a lot like everyday cameras and phones. By mimicking how vipers sense heat and fusing that idea with standard silicon ...