Linear Photo Diode Arrays
by PANAVISION SVI, LLC

PANAVISION SVI provides CMOS sensors for the use in industrial quality control and optoelectronic measurement devices. Especially the linear sensors have an excellent cost/performance ratio and are suitable for high volume applications.

The sensors are manufactured using the patented ACS (active column sensor) technology. This results in sensors with a high dynamic range and a very low noise. Additionally the sensors provide a high fill factor with an increased sensitivity. EURECA Messtechnik cooperates closely with PANAVISION and will take over the official distribution for these products soon.

CMOS Linear Sensors | Evaluation board for the LIS-1024 | QuadHDTV

 


CMOS Linear Sensors

Type Pixel number Pixel size
[µm]		 Data rate
[MHz]		 Remarks
LIS-500 500 62.50 x 7.80 0.00 Die version
ELIS-1024A-LG 1024 125.00 x 7.80 0.00 pixel binning, shutter
ELIS-1024A-LG-Die 1024 125.00 x 7.80 0.00 pixel binning, shutter, die version
ELIS-1024A-D 1024 125.00 x 7.80 0.00 pixel binning, shutter, DIP housing
RPLIS-2048-EXB-LG 2048 32.00 x 4.00 0.00 low power consumption
DLIS2KB-LG-ES 2081 x 4 4.00 x 4.00 0.00 four pixel rows
DLIS4KJ-LG-ES 4096 x 4 4.00 x 4.00 0.00 four pixel rows

At present the LIS-500 can only be delivered as die (sensor without housing). The minimum order volume is one complete wafer with approx. 3000 sensors. The wafers can also be sawed by the manufacturer. Then the single sensors will be delivered packed on trays.

The ELIS-1024A-DIP is delivered in a DIP housing without glass cover. So this sensor is suitable for spectroscopy or for applications in which filters, quartz or other components have to be mounted directly onto the sensor. Also reflections are avoided by the missing glass cover.

The DLIS-2K and the DLIS-4K provides four parallel pixel rows. One row with rectangular pixels can be used for low-light applications. The other three rows with square pixels can be used for e.g. scanning documents.

Please read the following applications notes for the ELIS-1024:

These products are often used in OCR card readers (e.g. for scanning text on Eurocheck cards or documents). You can find closer details about this in our application note about OCR reading units.


Evaluation Boards

For most of these linear sensors an evaluation board is available, which can be used to test the sensors fast and easy for a new application. This board provides an USB interface and a 12 bit ADC.

Attention: Due to the used USB interface not all sensors can be used with their maximum pixel frequency.


Further informations about the evaluationboard LIS-1024 you will find in the datasheet.

High resolution CMOS Image Sensors

The MDIC-2.0 was mainly developed to be used in mobile phones. Due to its remarkable small pixel size a high pixel number and so a high resolution is possible with a rather small optical active area.

With the Quad-8.3A PANAVISION offers a high resolution image sensor with the resolution of the new High Definition TeleVision (HDTV). Because of its high pixel number this product is however also suitable for applications in biometric, surveillance and science.
Type Pixel number Pixel size
[µm]		 Data rate
[MHz]		 Remarks
LIS-500 500 62.50 x 7.80 0.00 Die version
ELIS-1024A-LG 1024 125.00 x 7.80 0.00 pixel binning, shutter
ELIS-1024A-LG-Die 1024 125.00 x 7.80 0.00 pixel binning, shutter, die version
ELIS-1024A-D 1024 125.00 x 7.80 0.00 pixel binning, shutter, DIP housing
RPLIS-2048-EXB-LG 2048 32.00 x 4.00 0.00 low power consumption
DLIS2KB-LG-ES 2081 x 4 4.00 x 4.00 0.00 four pixel rows
DLIS4KJ-LG-ES 4096 x 4 4.00 x 4.00 0.00 four pixel rows

Please note that the MDIC-2.0 is at present only available for larger OEM projects with a certain minimum order volume per year.



Last updated: 3/8/2010