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Recent Image Sensor Theses

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There is a number of recently published image sensor theses:University of Trento: "3D Camera Based on Gain-Modulated CMOS Avalanche Photodiodes", PhD Thesis by Olga Shcherbakova, April 2013Delft University: "A Data Acquisition System Design for a 160x128 Single-photon Image Sensor", MSc Thesis by Sachin...

Rambus Blog Post on Binary Pixels

Rambus' blog post talks about the personal aspects of Binary Pixel team. Few quotes:"The imaging team set out to solve this problem by applying our knowledge of chip design, signal processing & managed...

Condition Monitoring

Condition monitoring is based on trending. It requires that suitable sensors be used, dedicated parameters be monitored, baseline (normal condition) be defined and trend of the data be captured to identify condition changes. Effective condition monitoring requires that all abnormal conditions be identified...

Failure Analysis and Trouble Shooting

Rotating machines do not fail randomly. There are root-causes for each failure. Usually the condition of the failed part has been changed and leads to failure.To stop failure, it is necessary to know why failure occurs. Based on failure analysis knowledge, critical components should be selected for...

Bearing Monitoring

Bearing fall into three major categories: Anti-friction bearings Hydro-dynamic bearings Magnetic bearings.Anti-friction bearings rely on rolling elements to carry the load of the equipment and reduce the power losses. In general anti-friction bearings are used for equipment of low horse-power...

Bearing - Predictive Maintenace

Preventive maintenance requires that maintenance is performed at predetermined intervals. It is time-based. But it is inefficient. There is usually no solid basis for replacing component on time basis. Unnecessary component replacement exposes the machine to wide range of potential failure causes such...

Bearing - Case Sudies

The first case study is of a large instrument air 450 rpm reciprocating compressor for a large power plant. It supplies instrument air to an air-receiver vessel (downstream of compressor) which feeds instrument air for various continuous and intermittent requirements. The compressor train is started...

Bearing - Other Practical Notes

Alarm and trip set points are important for efficient and reliable operation. These set-points should be properly selected to avoid unnecessary alarm or shutdown (trip) in transient, but safe, situations. On the other hand, malfunctions and problems must be identified in their early stages to avoid...

NHK Exhibits Stacked Organic Sensor

NHK exhibited an interesting stacked organic sensor at its 2013 Open House event on May 30-June 2:There are more photos at Japanese-language web site Imager Mania (nice site, BTW, I've added it to the...

Eric Fossum's Latest Papers on QIS, DIS and ToF

Eric Fossum made available his latest papers on QIS, DIS, ToF on-line, including the best poster award win at IISW 2013 (first link):S. Chen, A. Ceballos, and E.R. Fossum, Digital Integration Sensor, IISW 2013E.R. Fossum, Application of Photon Statistics to the Quanta Image Sensor, IISW 2013S. Masoodian,...

WHAT IS ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING?

In school did you have a liking towards resistors, transistors, diodes in physics lab. Did you ever have a liking towards chips of computers or other electronic device or mainly did you have a liking towards electronic devices. Have you ever wondered who configures a television or a computer....

Sony Unveils 1-inch BSI CMOS Sensor

PR Newswire: Sony unveils Rx-100 II compact camera featuring 1-inch (13.2 x 8.8 mm) BSI CMOS sensor. The sensor's resolution is 20.2MP and the pixel size is 2.4um. Sony says that it is approximately 40% more sensitive to light compared to the same size FSI sensor in last year's RX100 came...

SCOPE OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: "ca-pub-8455340135466515", enable_page_level_ads: true }); What is electronics and communication engineering? What is its scope? Scope of electronics and communication engineering or EC engineering is huge because modern technology...

Aptina Applies for Selective Column Power Down Patent

Aptina's patent application US20130134295 "Imaging systems with selectable column power control" by Hai Yan and Ashirwad Bahukhandi proposes a circuit to independently power down each column readout circuit,...

WHAT IS AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING?

During childhood everyone would have ran out of your house to glance up the sky to see an airplane or helicopter as soon as you hear its sound. You must have thought how this thing is flying as a bird or who made this thing. You might have thought of making an airplane and might have made with a paper....

SCOPE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

A few people have a misconception about aeronautical engineering. "Will i be able to fly an airplane one day?" will be the first thing a student who is planning to join a UG course thinks. He/she will ask someone about the doubt and the person explains that there are not many opportunities because...

Principal Designer – Piping- KBR Saudi Arabia

Principal Designer – Piping Under direct supervision, independently evaluates, selects, and applies standard engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria, using judgment in making minor adaptations and modifications. With additional experience within one functional area, assists in the design of...

Omnivision Announces Improved Version of 8MP/30fps 1.4um BSI-2 Pixel Sensor

Business Wire: OmniVision announces the OV8865, a low-power, high-performance 1/3.2-inch 8MP sensor targeting mobile devices, including advanced smartphones and tablets. Featuring an improved 1.4um OmniBSI-2...

Panasonic 1.12um Pixel SmartFSI Product Flyer

It appears that Panasonic 13MP 1/3.06-inch SmartFSI MN34130 sensor is production now. Its product flyer has been published a couple of days ago and has quite detailed product information, although not...

ITE and IISS Joint Transaction Section on Advanced Image Sensor Technology

International Image Sensor Society joins ITE (Japan Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers) Transactions on Media Technology and Applications in announcing a forthcoming Special Section on "Advanced Image Sensor Technology" to be published in April 2014. The publication has a number...

IISW 2013, Day 4 Review

Albert Theuwissen concludes his excellent series of reports from IISW 2013. The fourth day was the day of global shutters and oversampling in various domai...

Mass Transfer

Mass transfer can also occur in liquids and solids as well as in gases. For example, a cup of water left in a room will eventually evaporate as a result of water molecules diffusing into the air (liquid-to-gas...

Pelican Imaging Video Wins Telly Award

Pelican Imaging announces at its LinkedIn Company Page that it has received a Telly Award for "smart camera" video. The Telly Awards was founded in 1979 and is honoring outstanding commercials (including on-line commercials), programs, video and film productions. The winning video appears to have been...

Toshiba HDR Demo

Toshiba publishes HDR demo video. Toshiba says that HDR is one of their main technologies in CIS. The demo does not promise wonders, but rather, shows a realistic estimate of what can be achieved with the company's approach:Update: Toshiba has published this video on Youtube, one can watch it in 1080p...

Fujitsu Journal ISP Issue

Fujitsu Scientific and Technical Journal, Vol 49, No. 1 is entirely devoted to the company's image processing LSIs, including its Milbeaut ISPs for DSCs and mobile phones. The scope of the articles spans...

Billion Pixels from Mars

NASA assembled a Giga-pixel panorama from few hundreds of pixels pictures sent by Curiosity rover. Impressive achieveme...

Agilent Device Analyzer Targets RTN Measurements

While not a fresh news, Agilent newly enhanced B1500A Semiconductor Device Analyzer features WGFMU measurement module with RTN noise measuring capability. It appears that RTN characterization market becomes...

Rambus Publishes its IISW 2013 Presentation

Rambus published its IISW 2013 presentation dated by June 16. Among other things, the presentation introduces the conditional reset conce...

The Differential Pressure Flow Measuring Principle - Video

Differential Pressure Flow Measuring working principle for Orifice plate, Venturi and Nozzle. This video explains the working principle of differential pressure flow measuring instruments with fantastic animation. Easy to understand.Flow Measuring Instruments working Principle Animated VideoFlow Measuring...

LEAD PIPING DESIGNER – AIBEL SINGAPORE

Lead Piping Designer Aibel AS is one of the largest Norwegian services companies that engineer, build, maintain and modify oil and gas production facilities. Aibel’s long experience, skills and expertise help the clients to achieve more efficient energy production. Your responsibilities: Production,...

Team Lead -Piping Design - Aibel

Aibel is a leading service company within the oil and gas and renewable energy sectors. We are committed to creating value for our customers, as well as being a progressive and interesting workplace for our employees. Area Engineering - Piping & Layout Stavanger is responsible for the delivery...

IISW 2013, Day 3 Report

Albert Theuwissen continues his review of IISW 2013 news. Day 3 part covers CCD and CMOS presentations and invited talk by Mike Tompse...

TowerJazz Enters IR Imaging Space

Business Wire: TowerJazz-US announces that it will be the wafer manufacturer for IR sensing and camera devices. In addition to traditional IR defense and space applications, TowerJazz will facilitate expansion into other consumer markets such as gaming, personal security, and application driven platforms,...

2013 IISW: Awards, Organizational Announcements

These announcements came from Eric Fossum:-The IISS Walter Kosonocky Award is presented bi-annually for THE BEST PAPER presented in any venue during the prior two years representing significant advancement in solid-state image sensors. The award commemorates the many important contributions made by...

Mechanical Designer (Piping & Structural) - Dubai

Atlantic Resourcing provides flexible and innovative recruitment solutions to the international oil and gas industry. We deliver a full range of recruitment and selection services for our clients. We were established in 1996 and we have dedicated offices in Aberdeen and Dubai and a member of the Petrofac...

Imec and Panasonic Present 2k4k/60fps Sensor

Imec presents a CMOS sensor capturing 12b 4000 x 2000 pixel progressive images at 60fps. Based on a stagger-laced dual exposure, the image sensor developed with Panasonic, was processed using imec’s 130nm...

PDMS Piping Designer – Air Energi Monaco

PDMS Piping Designer – Air Energi Contact: Pierre Turgis Global Location: Europe Location: Monaco Sector: Design Contract Type: Permanent Salary: relocation bonus Further Information: A major EPC company specialized in the Offshore Oil & Gas industry is looking for...

PDMS PIPING DESIGNER - HOUSTON

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Pelican Imaging Demos its Camera Capabilities

PR Newswire: Pelican Imaging releases a Youtube video showing capabilities of its mobile array camera, including all-in-focus image capture, linear measurement, and 3D video captu...

Senior PDMS Piping & Layout Designers- Norway

Senior PDMS Piping & Layout Designers Job ID #: 8723 Country: Norway Job category: Technical/Engineering Location: Stavanger Position type: Employee Department: GG-085-Piping & Layout SVG (130) Experience...

Microsoft Complains about Image Sensor Power

While this topic has been covered in one of the recent posts, this time it appears again in MIT Technology Review:"Victor Bahl, research manager of the mobility networking group at Microsoft Research... said at the MIT Technology Review Mobile Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday that while much work...

Image Sensor Fundamentals for Beginners

AIA, the machine vision trade association, published 2-part video course on image sensor basics (part 1, part ...

Albert Theuwissen Reports from IISW 2013, Day 2

The day 2 report by Albert Theuwissen covers SPAD imagers and poster sessions at International Image Sensor Workshop at Snowbird, ...

All About CMOS Sensors in 75 Slides

Taiwan National Chiao Tung University published a nice CMOS image sensor course materials covering pretty much all important things in just 75 slides, written by Chia-Ming Tsai. There is also 58-slide long CCD course on the same page.Update: As written in comments, most of the material in the CMOS and...

Albert Theuwissen Reports from IISW 2013

Albert Theuwissen published a review of the first day presentations at International Image Sensor Workshop being held these days in Snowbird, UT. As there are too many presentations to write, Albert just mentioned a few spanning from reverse engineering revelations to the sensor noise analys...

Scallop Uploads its 2-Color Filter Video to Vimeo

Scallop Imaging, a division of Tenebraex, published Vimeo video demonstrating its Gemini 2-channel color filter performance in low light. The video is made using "a leading 1.2MP monochrome sensor with 3.75 µm pixel" equipped with the Gemini color filter array. It's compared to the color version of...

Rambus to Present Binary Pixel Test Chip Results

Business Wire: Thomas Vogelsang, Rambus, is to present present results from an binary pixel sensor test-chip that demonstrates DR extension by a factor of 14 compared to a conventional sensor in the same technology. During this presentation at IISW 2013 being held these days in Snowbird, UT, Thomas...

Podcast on 17 Curiosity's Cameras

NASA published a nice post talking about 17 cameras installed on board of Mars rover Curiosity. Among other things, it explains why we do not see videos from Curiosity and how the panorama images are being sh...

CAD Coordinator SP3D / PDMS Job – Bechtel London

CAD Coordinator SP3D / PDMS Job Date: May 30, 2013 Location: London, GB Requisition ID: 74691 - Organization: OG&C - Location: London CAD Coordinator Job Description Function as the project CAD coordinator in the Design office. Applications include PDS, SP3D, MicroStation, ProjectWise....

Lead Piping Engineer – Manchester WorleyParsons

Lead Piping Engineer Oil Field Upgrade Projects (NW, Staff or Agency Hire – Staff preferred) Job Type Full-time Advertising Category Engineering/Design & Sciences Location of Job Manchester, UK (Primary) Job Description WorleyParsons Improve is a core service for brownfield operations...

Imec and Holst to Present Flexible Organic Sensor for X-Ray Scintillators

Imec News, Solid State Technology: At this week’s IISW (Snowbird, US, June 12-16 2013), imec and Holst Centre present a large-area fully-organic photodetector array fabricated on a flexible substrate....

EPFL Molybdenite-based Sensor

ScienceDaily, Phys.org: In 2011, an EPFL team led by Andras Kis announced molybdenite (MoS2) and its potential in various technological applications. Now they publish a paper in Nature Nanotechnology...

SiOnyx Passed US Army Performance Test

Optics.org: SiOnyx sensor successfully captured images when the system was operated by the US Army, in a test scene at the Army’s premier agency for night vision technology, a company official said."This...

DOUBLE BLOCK AND BLEED BALL VALVE ANIMATION

Double Block and Ball Valve Animation How it works Double Block and Bleed Valve Double block and bleed valve, DBB valve animation, DBB How it works?...

CMOSIS and TowerJazz Ramp Up 12MP/150fps APS-C GS Sensor Production

Business Wire: CMOSIS and TowerJazz announces the ramp to volume production for CMOSIS’ 12-megapixel CMV12000. The off-the-shelf CMV12000 is manufactured in TowerJazz’s Fab-2 in Migdal Haemek, Israel using its 0.18µm specialty CIS process (TS18IS) and is based on CMOSIS’ collaboration and co-development...

Fujifilm and Panasonic Present Organic Image Sensor Papers

Panasonic and Fujifilm present two papers on their latest developments on organic pixel sensors: one at VLSI Symposium and a second one at IISW this month.The sensor combines Fujifilm's organic photoelectric...

ISORG Receives JPCA Award

ISORG's distributor in Japan, Techno Alpha, receives JPCA Show Award (Tokyo, Japan) for "a disruptive technology for industrial and consumer electronics application...

Plastic Logic and ISORG Partner on Flexible Image Sensor

Plastic Logic and ISORG join forces to commercialize flexible image sensors. The collaboration is based on the deposition of organic printed photodetectors (OPD) by ISORG, onto a plastic organic thin-film...

Lead Piping Designer - Cadskills Pte Ltd - Singapore

Lead Piping Designer - Cadskills Pte Ltd Singapore Responsibilities Lead all plant layout and piping design activities specializing in 3D layout designProduce various discipline deliverables within schedule including Piping plans and Elevations, extraction of Isometrics, clash detection,...

Concert Lasers Damage Image Sensors

There is a growing number of videos showing how image sensors can be damaged by concert lasers:One would expect the excessive energy to burn color filter first, while the underneath layers be able to withstand quite a significant heating. But it looks like the a whole column and/or row stops working,...

Piping Designer – WorleyParsons Bangkok

Job Title: Piping Designer Job Type: Full-time Location of Job: Bangkok, BM TH (Primary) Job Description Primary Objective Responsible for performing piping design activities using project approved “in house” 3D CAD modelling and 2D drafting systems. Specific Accountabilities Produce the...

Omnivision IR Presentation

Omnivision's June 2013 investor presentation includes few slides its busine...

Panasonic Restructuring

Panasonic IR Day presentations reveal the first details of its restructuring program. Panasonic has been split into 4 companies. The semiconductor business belongs to Automotive & Industrial Systems...

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