14 DAY TRIAL // Pixelplus, a Korean fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets CMOS image sensors for various consumer electronics applications, has just launched its latest product - the "PO5130", a customized and enhanced 1.3 megapixel 'System-on-a-Chip' ("SoC") image sensor for various mobile and non-mobile applications based on the company's PlusPixel technology in 0.13 um CMOS process.
The PO5130 integrates advanced image signal processing ("ISP") algorithms and 2.6 micron pixel array in a 1/4.2 inch optical format, and delivers enhanced and sharper image quality in low light conditions.
"We are very excited about the PO5130 as it provides high quality images and reduces optical form factor for slim mobile camera phone applications and expect that those qualities will effectively address customers' demands," said Dr. Sang-Soo Lee, Chief Technology Officer of Pixelplus. "Given the highly specialized features of the PO5130, we believe the company is well positioned to cultivate business in the 1.3 megapixel SoC image sensor market, which we envisage will form an increasingly popular and prominent market for mobile and non-mobile applications in the next few years. For this aim, we have worked closely with our new foundry partner to optimize the process conditions necessary for enhanced pixel performance in the PO5130."
More precisely, the PO5130 embeds an on-chip regulator which enables a single 2.8 volt operation to reduce the costs of camera module solutions. Moreover, because of a two-wire serial interface, the PO5130 can be programmed to control operating modes with respect to the exposure time, frame rate, window size, scaling, sub-sampling, and color matrix to produce enhanced quality images in almost any operating environment.
Samples of the PO5130 are already available, but the mass production of the PO5130 is expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2006.