November 2016 ~ engineering information technology

Brigates Publishes Image Sensor Datasheets

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Brigates publishes fairly detailed datasheets of its image sensors with characterization data. It's a brave move as some of the parameters are quite far from the state of the art.BG0703 is a 1MP 1/2.7-inch...

Challenges: ST Signs Huge Contract with Apple

French-language site Challenges reports that ST has signed a huge contract with Apple for image sensors, which will boost the workload at its Crolles plants, where fifty new machines are being installed. The influx of this and other new orders allows the Crolles 200mm fab to reach utilization rate of...

Mediatek to Enter ADAS Vision Solutions Market

MediaTek announces its plan to bring ADAS vision solutions to the automotive industry beginning Q1 2017:"Reimagined from the ground up, MediaTek’s ADAS system will feature cutting-edge, decentralized Vision Processing Unit (VPU) solutions to optimally handle large amounts of real-time visual streaming...

Intel to Make SoC for Next Gen Mobileye

Reuters, NYT: Intel will provide a SoC for autonomous vehicle systems that Delphi and Mobileye are developing together, Glen De Vos, Delphi's VP Engineering said. Delphi is testing autonomous driving technology in vehicles in Singapore. By the end of this year, Delphi hopes to choose a city in the United...

Sony SLDVS-EC Interface

Novus Light discusses Sony proprietary Scalable Low Voltage Signalling with an Embedded Clock (SLVS-EC) interface, which debuts in the company's next generation of image sensors for industrial applications....

ARM VP of Imaging and Vision Inverview

ARMdevices interviews Jem Davies, ARM VP of Technology, Imaging and Vision Group. Jem talks about imaging and vision strategy at ARM and says that Huawei will be one of the first licensees of its imaging ad vision technology in smartphones:Jem Davies ARM Techcon 2016 presentation video posted on Nov....

LIPS Receives 2016 Golden Torch Innovation Award

LIPS receives 2016 Golden Torch Innovation Award from Outstanding Enterprise Manager Associate in Taiwan for the technologies behind its depth camera innovation.LIPS Founder & CEO Luke Liu receiving...

AutoSens: Softkinetic Compares ToF with Other Approaches

AutoSens 2016 kindly permitted me to post a couple of slides from Softkinetic presentation "3D depth-sensing for automotive: bringing awareness to the next generation of (autonomous) vehicles" by Daniel...

Samsung System LSI Might Split into Fabless and Foundry Businesses

According to BusinessKorea sources, Samsung is contemplating to split its semiconductor business into a fabless and foundry divisions:"Samsung Electronics’ System LSI business division is largely divided into four segments; system on chip (SoC) team which develops mobile APs, LSI development team, which...

Nikon Applies for 2-Layer Stacked PDAF Patent

NikonRumors quotes Egami talking about Nikon patent application with 2-layered pixel array forming a cross-type PDAF: "Nikon patent application is to use the two imaging elements having different phase...

Sony, ON Semi Image Sensor Innovations

Framos publishes interviews with Framos North America VP Sebastian Dignard and ON Semi Go To Market Manager Michael DeLuca on image sensor innovatio...

Edoardo Charbon and Junichi Nakamura Elevated to IEEE Fellows

Edoardo Charbon and Junichi Nakamura has been elevated to IEEE Fellows. Thanks to AT for the in...

More on Hitachi Lensless Camera

Nikkei publishes an article with more details on Hitachi lens-less camera:"In general, the method that Hitachi employed for its lens-less camera uses a "moire stripe" that can be obtained by stacking...

Image Sensors at ISSCC 2017

ISSCC publishes its 2017 advance program. Sony is going to present its 3-die stacked sensor, a somewhat expected evolution of the stacking technology:A 1/2.3in 20Mpixel 3-Layer Stacked CMOS Image Sensor with DRAMT. Haruta, T. Nakajima, J. Hashizume, T. Umebayashi, H. Takahashi, K. Taniguchi, M. Kuroda,...

Basler's First ToF Camera Enters Series Production

Basler: After a successful conclusion of the evaluation phase and extremely positive customer feedback, Basler first ToF camera is now entering series production. The VGA ToF camera is said to stand out...

Movidius on IoT Vision Applications

ARMDevices interviews Movidius VP Marketing, Gary Brown, on the company low power advantages of their vision processor in different applicatio...

Jaroslav Hynecek Gets 2016 EDS J.J. Ebers Award

IEEE Electron Devices Society publishes a list of this year's awards. Jaroslav Hynecek receives 2016 EDS J.J. Ebers Award for "For the pioneering work and advancement of CCD and CMOS image sensor technologies." The Award is to be presented at IEDM in Decemb...

Image Reconstruction for Quanta Image Sensors

Open-access Sensors journal publishes Purdue University paper "Images from Bits: Non-Iterative Image Reconstruction for Quanta Image Sensors" by Stanley H. Chan, Omar A. Elgendy, and Xiran Wang. From...

ARM Vision for Vision and Imaging Technologies

ARM fellow Jem Davies describes the company approach to imaging opportuniti...

Xiling Demos Alexnet on FPGA

Xilinx publishes a demo of its neural learning network. Alexnet, although somewhat dated by modern standards, seems to remain the most popular for such capability statemen...

Tesla New Self-Driving Hardware Demo

Tesla publishes a nice demo of its new self-driving platform, together with computer-interpreted images from its 3 cameras:A longer version of this video is he...

High EQE Broadband Photodiode

Opli quotes Nature Photonics paper "Near-unity quantum efficiency of broadband black silicon photodiodes with an induced junction" by Mikko A. Juntunen, Juha Heinonen, Ville Vähänissi, Päivikki Repo,...

AutoSens: Demystifying ADAS Camera Parameters

AutoSens conference kindly permitted me posting few slides from TI presentation "ADAS Front Camera (FC): Demystifying System Parameters" by Mihir Mody.Data from Car Stopping Distance Calcula...

Intel RealSense 400 Presentation

ARMDevices interviews Intel representative showing Relasense 3D camera talking about the 3D vision technology applicatio...

AR Glasses to Grow into $1b Market in 2017

PRNewswire: According to CCS Insight's report on wearable tech, shipments of AR and VR headsets forecast to grow 15 times to 96 million units by 2020, at a value of $14.5 billion. The report also indicates...

Theses Roundup: PD Modeling, 0.4e- Noise, Sensor for Venus Mission

ISAE-SUPAERO publishes PhD Thesis "Estimation and modeling of key design parameters of pinned photodiode CMOS image sensors for high temporal resolution applications" by Alice Pelamatti. The thesis presents...

HiScene, Inuitive, Heptagon Team on AR Glasses

Shoot: HiScene (not HiSense!), Inuitive and Heptagon have teamed to roll out AR Glasses, billed as HiScene’s next generation of Augmented Reality (AR )glasses. The companies worked together to develop...

The Miracle Drug And Superbugs

In class this week we read an article called "The Miracle Drug And Superbugs," which was about antibiotics, why we need them, and why we don't. We've been learning about microbes this quarter- previously,...

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