Hardware Components

Question 1

Bayer Pattern

Answer 1

mosaic arrangement of a color filter array; RGB color filters on a square grid of photosensors

Question 2

distribution of bayern pattern

Answer 2

50% green, 25 red, 25 blue

Question 3

SAR

Answer 3

Successive Approximation Register, ADC that is useful for applications requiring a sample rate under 10MSPS

Question 4

S/H

Answer 4

Sample and Hold circuit that samples the voltage of an analog signal and holds its value at a constant level for a specified minimum period time

Question 5

TRDB-D5M

Answer 5

5 Mega Pixel Digital Camera

Question 6

Pixel Array of TRDB-D5M

Answer 6

active region, boundary region that’s also active, and border of dark pixels

Question 7

boundary region of TRDB-D5M’s pixel array

Answer 7

used to avoid edge effects from color processing

Question 8

PIXCLK

Answer 8

can be used as a clock to latch the data so every cycle, a 12-bit pixel value outputs on the DOUT pins

Question 9

FVAL and LVAL high

Answer 9

pixel valid

Question 10

FVAL negated

Answer 10

vertical blanking

Question 11

LVAL negated

Answer 11

horizontal blanking

Question 12

subsampling

Answer 12

reduce output resolution without reducing field of view

Question 13

Row and column binning modes

Answer 13

can reduce the impact of aliasing from skip modes

Question 14

skipping

Answer 14

skips one bayer pair of pixels for every pair output, can be 2x or 3x and column and/or row; method for reducing output resolution

Question 15

binning

Answer 15

combines adjacent same-color imager pixels to make one output pixel; another method for reducing output resolution

Question 16

XCLKIN

Answer 16

96MHz clk used by D5M, its pixel output, D[11:0] pins are at a max rate of 96 Mp/s