CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Scott Moody

CMOS Beginnings 1998 CMOS Emerged as alternative image capture technology 2000 Foveon Inc developed X3 technology 2002 First Widespread use of CMOS in high end digital cameras

Foveon Inc Contribution Before X3 developed sensor technology was.35 to.50 micron technology Company’s were trying to develop.25 micron technology Foveon developed a.18 micron technology Smaller diodes mean higher resolution and quality in the same space

From Film to CMOS

X3 Foveon

Benefits of CMOS CMOS manufacturing process very similar to that of traditional computer processors CCD very specialist and costly to produce CMOS capable of doing multitasking CCD just registers light CMOS very low power consumption CCD high energy process

Mosaic CCD X3 CMOS

Mosaic CCD X3 CMOS

CCDCMOS Multitasking Image Processing