Image sensors consulting

Aphesa SPRL provides consulting services for image sensor selection, evaluation, benchmarking and integration for industrial and non-industrial applications.

Aphesa provides consulting for the evaluation and selection of the best image sensor for a specific application and for the design in and integration process of analog or digital image sensors in vision sensors, processing boards and machinery.

Integration of CMOS image sensors

Board level design and FPGA design to control and readout CMOS image sensors (line scan and area scan) and to compensate for their defects (defect pixels, DSNU, PRNU, etc).

The designs can also include other algorithms like automatic exposure control, binning, histogram, digital gain, color reconstruction, gamma correction, etc.

Management of custom image sensor designs

Aphesa provides expert project management and design expericence during the complete development phase and feasibility phase of a custom image sensor design. Aphesa also ensures that the specifications agreed with the design house meet the requirements for the application and tests the first silicon by using the EMVA1288 standard in order to prove that the design meets the specification.

Basics of electronic imaging

An introductory, intermediate or more advanced course about the theory and details of operation of electronic image sensors.

High dynamic range image sensors

High dynamic range image sensors are usually not straightforward to use. Depending on the technology they may suffer from artefacts of various kinds. It is key to understand what a high dynamic range sensor can do and cannot do and if it makes sense at all to use a high dynamic range sensor in a particular application.

An e-book about High Dynamic Range Imaging can be downloaded here: Download

High speed sensors

High speed image sensors have to use a different sensor architecture. This can provide additional artefacts and requires different data acquisition techniques.

Optimizing image quality

An image sensor is not a digital component but an analog component. It is important to use it with care in order to achieve the highest possible performance.

High temperature sensors

Description and compensation of effects that occur at high temperatures in semi-conductors and in image sensors.