Camera on a chip

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Camera on a chip
By Mark Compton

http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/05/22/kemeny/index.html

In the early '90s, a crack team of researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory (JPL) set out to dramatically advance the state of image-capture 
technology. Their goal: smaller, cheaper, faster image sensors that could 
work using less power than the CCD (charge-coupled device) chipsets that had 
been carried aboard all previous space missions. It just so happens that that 
team, led by Eric Fossum, managed to hit a major home run -- exploiting 
standard CMOS technology to invent new 

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