Product category: Optoelectronic Sensors, Switches and Receivers
News Release from: Avago Technologies | Subject: ADCC-3000 image sensor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 August 2006
Image sensor is top product
The ADCC-3000 image sensor has been selected as the top product in the Ultimate Products 3.1 interconnect, passive and electromechanical (IP and E) category from EE Times and eeProductcentre.
The ADCC-3000 image sensor has been selected as the top product in the Ultimate Products 3.1 interconnect, passive and electromechanical (IP and E) category from EE Times and eeProductCenter "Avago Technologies raises the price and performance bar with its quarter-inch optical format, 1.3Mpixel CMOS image sensor", said Gina Roos, Editor at eeProductCenter
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The ADCC-3000 leverages the company's enhanced-performance (EP) pixel architecture and image-pipe processing technology touting much better picture quality than existing megapixel sensors for camera phones".
Avago's ADCC-3000 enables handset manufacturers to easily upgrade their one-quarter inch VGA (video graphics array) resolution cameras to 1.
3Mpixel cameras with a 4x increase in resolution and the ability to take sharper, clearer photos.
Additionally, the product is designed to support superior video and action shots, enabling features like smooth digital zoom, autofocus support and reduced image lag.
With 1280 x 1024, 2.8 x 2.8um pixels, the ADCC-3000 is also ideal for today's ultrathin megapixel mobile phones.
Editors from EE Times and eeProductCenter nominate the most significant products announced each quarter in seven categories.
Selected products are then rated on technical significance and product usability by more than 1000 engineers.
"The need for better image quality in megapixel and multimegapixel sensors in the phone market is rapidly increasing", said Feisal Mosleh, Worldwide Director of Marketing and Support for Avago Technologies' Mobile Imaging Division.
"We are delighted that EE Times readers have recognised the value image quality brings to camera sensors".
"Our 1.3Mpixel ADCC-3000 outperforms competing 1, 2 and 3Mpixel sensors with the ability to take brighter, colour-rich photos under all lighting conditions".
"The ADCC 3000 is part of a new generation of Avago's enhanced performance line of mobile phone camera sensors delivering noticeably better images". Request a free brochure from Avago Technologies ...
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