Teledyne Imaging develops custom and platform product CMOS families as well as carrying out up screening of industrial devices as part of application specific COTS+ customer requirements.
Space qualified custom and COTS+ Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) imaging sensors or CMOS Imaging Sensors (CIS) have some obvious advantages over Charge Coupled Device (CCD) sensors such as lower power consumption, higher speed and much higher levels of integration is possible and also provides the opportunity to derive significant amounts of data, not just images, than their CCD counterparts.
Whilst Teledyne CCD technology is proven over many decades to be completely reliable for space applications and provides the required imaging performance, Teledyne’s CMOS technology is accumulating heritage in space everyday with image sensors currently flying in space.
Teledyne has extensive experience in CMOS design with a long heritage in industrial and scientific CMOS imaging applications and a large portfolio of IP blocs. Teledyne has more CMOS designers than CCD designers, by a factor of 20, and has delivered more than 1 million high performance CMOS devices.
Market driven
Key Technologies
Major development programs include hyperspectral, multispectral and CMOS TDI platform product families for line scanning in Earth observation and living planet applications and a CMOS general-purpose image sensor.
Upscreening of industrial CMOS sensors
Resolution: 2048 × 2048 Pixel size: 10 µm Highly flexible CMOS image sensor platform designed for a large range of space applications.
Resolution: 16000 × 4 Pixel size: 5 µm Very high resolution CMOS time delay integration (TDI) image sensors with CCD on CMOS architecture designed for space satellite Earth observation (EO) applications.
Resolution: 244 × 488 Pixel size: 70 µm space qualified CMOS image sensors, with unparalleled performance in terms of sensitivity, radiation tolerance and low power consumption.
Resolution: 1280 × 1024 Pixel size: 5.3 µm 1.3 Mpixels B&W and Color CMOS Image Sensor
Resolution: 1280 × 1024 Pixel size: 5.3 µm 1.3 Mpixels B&W and Color CMOS Image Sensor
