excamera, what I'm hacking on, daily.
jamesb@excamera.com
Thu, 31 Jul 2003
New chip
Some new chips came last week from National - LM9627. They're 640x480
color CMOS CCDs. What's new and exciting about this part (I should
write advertising copy, don't you think?) is that all the timing and
analog circuitry is on-chip. You talk to it with I2C and get a stream
of 12 bit samples out the back.
Trouble is that the package is a LCC48 - sockets are hundreds of dollars - so I'm having to think about hand soldering wires to the chip.
