Silicon Imaging is proud to continue its innovation in high

SI-1300M & RGB MegaCamera™

1.3 Megapixel, 10-Bit, 40/80MHz

Progressive Scan Digital Camera

Silicon Imaging Inc.

Silicon Imaging is proud to continue its innovation in high-resolution color vision camera. Driven by the growing demand for consumer Digital Still Cameras, CMOS sensors are continuing to break technical barriers and surpass the performance characteristics of CCD’s in many photonic, imaging and consumer applications. By utilizing a single highly integrated CMOS device, which incorporates Megapixel sensing areas, timing generation, signal processing and high bandwidth outputs, Silicon Imaging has developed a very compact, low-power, ultra high speed Megapixel digital camera system.

1280 x 1024 Megapixel - Ultra Resolution
The SI-1300 is an all-digital CMOS camera that delivers 1.3 Million pixels of resolution and is capable of running at over 40 frames/second at its full 1280 x 1024 resolution. The entire package is only 45 x 52 x 50mm (33 x 40mm x 22mm in PCB) and is small enough to placed on a robot for semiconductor machine vision inspection or placed in an outdoor housing for remote surveillance. It is ideal for live visualization and handheld instrumentation.

10-Bits Low-Noise (<20e-) – Sub-Pixel Accuracy
The SI-1300 MegaCameraä uses 10-Bit digitizers to sample the pixel data. Converting the pixel data directly to digital at the sensor head eliminates pixel-sampling jitter and enables accurate sub-pixel metrology, image analysis and improved live video reconstruction. The results are impressive with low-noise and low-dark currents to allow increases in gain and exposure time for improved signal noise. A programmable clock which ranges from 20~40MHz allows for trade-offs in speed versus exposure time and lower noise. Clock speeds up to 80MHz are possible with the High speed (-H) model.

120 FPS VGA Subsampling - Fast Preview
Ideal for high speed preview and focusing, the SI-1300 is capable of generating imagery at over 120 frames per second by reducing the size of the readout image in color subsampling mode, This entire imager is readout by skipping pairs of pixels (4:2) to maintain color information of neighboring bayer groups. In this way, the 640x480 accurately represents the full size 1280x1024 image.

1000 FPS Windowing
A small region of the imager can be readout at frame rates in excess of 1000fps (ex. 200 x 100), with speed increasing with reduced vertical and horizontal settings. The window size and position can be adaptively changed on frame-by-frame basis.

Automatic Black Level Correction - IR Sensitivity
The SI-1300 has automatic black level calibration which measures the average value of 256 pixels from two dark rows of the imager for each of the four colors. The pixels are averaged as if they were light-sensitive and passed through the appropriate color gain. This average is then digitally filtered over many frames and compared to minimum and maximum acceptable thresholds for automatic correction.

CameraLink Digital Interfaces
An industry standard forum has adopted Camera Link, for low cost connectivity and cabling of cameras and frame grabbers at very high speeds. The SI-1300-CL utilizes the high speed CameraLink interface to output 1280 x 1024 10 bit data at 40/80MHz continuously to a frame grabber and directly into PC memory for further processing. The single cable includes image data, vertical and horizontal synch, LVDS Triggering and 9600 baud Serial communication. For High-Speed communication, the SI-1300 also has a 57.6kb mode for faster register updates. this camera complies with the standard, it is compatible with many popular frame grabber and image processing hardware devices and fiber-optic extender for extended distance transmission.