KEYWORDS: Photodiodes, Transistors, Power supplies, Capacitance, High dynamic range imaging, Frequency modulation, Eye, CMOS technology, Sensors, Image sensors
We are developing a retinal prosthesis vision chip based on a pulse-frequency-modulation (PFM) photosensor. Because the device is implanted in the eye ball and is powered by RF coil coupling with limited energy, low voltage and small current operation is required to achieve low power dissipation. We propose a capacitive-feedback-reset method for the PFM vision chip. The proposed method uses capacitive feed back through the junction capacitance of the photodiode and gate-source overlap capacitance of the reset transistor. In the proposed PFM circuit, the feed-through effect in resetting contributes to avoid current competition, so that the high dynamic range can be achieved even at the low voltage operation. We have fabricated a pixel TEG circuit in a 0.35-μm CMOS technology. The PFM photosensor circuit is composed of a four-stage inverter-chain. Dynamic range of 136dB has been achieved with 0.8-V power supply.
Access to the requested content is limited to institutions that have purchased or subscribe to SPIE eBooks.
You are receiving this notice because your organization may not have SPIE eBooks access.*
*Shibboleth/Open Athens users─please
sign in
to access your institution's subscriptions.
To obtain this item, you may purchase the complete book in print or electronic format on
SPIE.org.
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.