ON Semiconductor introduces new XGS CMOS image sensor

     Driving energy efficient innovation, ON Semiconductor expands its high-performance, low-noise XGS family of image sensors, which deliver 12-bit image quality at high frame rates. The new products include the XGS 45000, XGS 30000 and XGS 20000, which provide imaging detail of up to 45 megapixels for resolution-demanding applications and 60 frames per second (fps) in 8K video mode. In addition, the new XGS 5000 is designed with low-power performance and state-of-the-art image quality for compact 29 x 29 mm2 camera designs. In addition to the XGS 5000, ON Semiconductor's 3 megapixel and 2 megapixel variants have also been released for production.

     All XGS devices feature a 3.2µm pixel size to provide high resolution, while the advanced pixel design ensures low noise performance and image quality, which is critical for challenging Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as machine vision and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The global shutter ensures that there are no motion artifacts when photographing moving objects. To simplify and speed time to market, the XGS device provides a common architecture that makes it easy to develop multiple resolutions for a single camera design.

     The ease of use and image quality of the XGS series are proven, and several leading manufacturers have successfully integrated the technology into their designs. Teledyne Imaging, one of the world leaders in digital imaging technology, recently announced the new GenieTM Nano-5G M/C8100 area scan camera, which is designed with the XGS 45000.

     Manny Romero, senior product Manager at Teledyne Imaging, said: "The performance, higher resolution and quality of this new XGS sensor technology from ON Semiconductor are the main reasons why Teledyne Imaging moved quickly to integrate it into the Genie Nano-5G family of area-scanning cameras. Our new cameras will feature the XGS 45000, XGS 30000 and XGS 20000 sensors for industrial imaging applications that require high-speed data capture and transmission."

     JAI A/S, one of the leading suppliers of camera solutions for traffic imaging/vehicle recognition in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), has integrated the XGS 45000 into its new 45-megapixel industrial camera. The SP-45000M-CXP4 offers a market-leading 44.7 megapixel black-and-white resolution of 52 frames per second, and supports full 8K resolution of more than 60 frames per second.

     Usman M. Syed, vice president of strategy and Digital Innovation at JAI, said: "The XGS 45000 gives us the unique combination of true 8K resolution running at 60 fps, excellent 12-bit image quality, and global shutter image capture, all integrated in a single sensor. "Basler, the world's leading manufacturer of digital cameras for industrial and retail applications, medical devices and transportation systems, also recently announced that they will integrate XGS sensors into their boost platform based on the latest CoaXPress 2.0 machine vision standard.

     Thomas Karow, Product Marketing Manager at Basler, said: "We see the XGS sensor as an excellent way to extend our boost CTP-12 camera family to higher resolutions. They are perfectly suited to the excellent value-for-money positioning of our cameras, particularly for new designs and the transition from CCD to CMOS in existing high-resolution vision systems."

     ON Semiconductor offers a wide range of development tools to support the design process. The demo kit includes a hardware platform with DevSuite software for a comprehensive sensor evaluation of all register Settings. The X-Celerator platform includes common FPGA code and provides a direct interface to standard FPGA development environments such as Xilinx and Altera. The X-Cube platform supports 16-megapixel XGS devices and is a complete 29 x 29 mm2 reference design, providing conversion from HiSPi to MIPI via Lattice FPGas, as well as image capture, processing and analysis using DevSuite software.