A 1024×768-12µm digital ROIC for uncooled microbolometer FPAs (Conference Presentation)

Selim Eminoglu

doi:10.1117/12.2263532

26 June 2017 A 1024×768-12μm Digital ROIC for uncooled microbolometer FPAs

Selim Eminoglu

Proceedings Volume 10177, Infrared Technology and Applications XLIII; 1017722 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2263532
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2017, Anaheim, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper reports the development of a new digital microbolometer Readout Integrated Circuit (D-ROIC), called MT10212BD. It has a format of 1024 × 768 (XGA) and a pixel pitch of 12μm. MT10212BD is Mikro Tasarim’s second 12μm pitch microbolometer ROIC, which is developed specifically for surface micro machined microbolometer detector arrays with small pixel pitch using high-TCR pixel materials, such as VOx and a Si. MT10212BD has an alldigital system on-chip architecture, which generates programmable timing and biasing, and performs 14-bit analog to digital conversion (ADC). The signal processing chain in the ROIC is composed of pixel bias circuitry, integrator based programmable gain amplifier followed by column parallel ADC circuitry. MT10212BD has a serial programming interface that can be used to configure the programmable ROIC features and to load the Non-Uniformity-Correction (NUC) date to the ROIC. MT10212BD has a total of 8 high-speed serial digital video outputs, which can be programmed to operate in the 2, 4, and 8-output modes and can support frames rates above 60 fps. The high-speed serial digital outputs supports data rates as high as 400 Mega-bits/s, when operated at 50 MHz system clock frequency. There is an on-chip phase-locked-loop (PLL) based timing circuitry to generate the high speed clocks used in the ROIC. The ROIC is designed to support pixel resistance values ranging from 30KΩ to 90kΩ, with a nominal value of 60KΩ. The ROIC has a globally programmable gain in the column readout, which can be adjusted based on the detector resistance value.

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Selim Eminoglu "A 1024×768-12μm Digital ROIC for uncooled microbolometer FPAs", Proc. SPIE 10177, Infrared Technology and Applications XLIII, 1017722 (26 June 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2263532

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Readout integrated circuits

Microbolometers

Clocks

Resistance

Analog electronics

Detector arrays

Digital electronics

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