Antwerp, Belgium / Shanghai, China, 3. March. 2014 – CMOSIS, the leading European supplier of advanced CMOS image sensors, announces the CMV8000, its latest high-speed 8 MP/105 fps image sensor at the occasion of VisionChina Shanghai 2014. The new CMV8000 strengthens CMOSIS’s leading product portfolio of global-shutter CMOS image sensors addressing the demanding markets of machine vision, traffic ITS, microscopy, security and surveillance, and medical applications. At VisionChina 2014 CMOSIS exhibits in Booth 1222-2, Hall E1 at the Shanghai New International Centre.
The CMV8000 is a 4/3” / 8-MP sensor with 3360 x 2496 5.5-µm sized active pixels using the patented 8T pixel architecture to offer low noise and excellent global shuttering. Row- and column-oriented optical black pixels are implemented as well to support additional noise cancellation techniques. From an electro-optical point-of-view the CMV8000 offers the same performance as the well known CMV2000 and CMV4000 image sensors. It is designed to be system-compatible with CMV2000 and CMV4000 to facilitate the migration from CMV2000 and CMV4000 camera designs to this higher resolution image sensor. The frame rate of 105 full frames per second is achieved by using 16 LVDS outputs running at 600Mbit/s each. Lower frame rates can be supported by multiplexing to fewer output channels. Partial read out, windowing and sub-sample modes can be programmed to support higher frame rates. At full resolution and frame rate, the power dissipation is 900mW. This power consumption can be dynamically controlled when lower frame rates are used.
Both monochrome and RGB colored versions of the CMV8000 image sensor will be made available. It is housed in a ceramic 107-pin uPGA package and can be operated in the -30 to +70 ºC temperature range.
“With the introduction of the CMV8000 we respond to the requests of many of our customer for a sensor with CMV performance closing the resolution gap that existed between our CMV4000 and CMV12000 image sensors”, said Lou Hermans, Chief Operating Officer, CMOSIS. “The full frame rate of 105 frames per second is achieved by using the proven data interfacing of the recently launched CMV12000.”
About CMOSIS
CMOSIS is a pure-play supplier of standard off-the-shelf and application-specific CMOS image sensors for the industrial and professional market covering applications such as machine vision, scientific, medical, automatic data capture and space. Founded in 2007 as a fabless CMOS image sensor vendor CMOSIS provides standard off-the-shelf and turn-key solutions to customers based on in-house design, characterization and qualification facilities for research, development and volume production. CMOSIS currently employs more than 60 people and is headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium.
