The active polarity of CLPOB (Active HIGH or Active
LOW) can be selected through the serial interface (refer to
the “Serial Interface” section for more detail). The default
value of CLPOB is “Active LOW”. However, immediately
after power on, this value is “Unknown”. For this reason, the
appropriate value must be set by using serial interface, or
reset to the default value by the RESET pin. The description
and the timing diagrams in this data sheet are all based on
the polarity of Active LOW (default value).
VOLTAGE REFERENCE
All the reference voltages and bias currents needed in the
VSP2210 are generated by its internal bandgap circuitry.
The CDS and the ADC use mainly three reference voltages:
REFP (Positive Reference, pin 38), REFN (Negative Refer-
ence, Pin 39) and CM (Common-Mode Voltage, pin 37).
REFP, REFN and CM should be heavily decoupled with
appropriate capacitors (e.g., 0.1µF ceramic capacitor), and
should not be used elsewhere in the system; they affect the
stability of the reference level, and cause ADC performance
degradation. Note that these are analog output pins.
PREBLANKING AND DATA LATENCY
Some CCDs have large transient output signals during
blanking intervals. Such signals may exceed the VSP2210’s
1Vp-p input signal range and would overdrive the VSP2210
into saturation. Recovery time from the saturation could be
substantial. To avoid this, the VSP2210 has an input blank-
ing (or preblanking) function (PBLK). When PBLK goes to
LOW, the CCDIN input is disconnected from the internal
CDS stage and large transients are prevented from passing
through. The VSP2210’s digital outputs will go to all ZEROs
at the 11th rising edge of ADCCK, from just after PBLK sets
to LOW, to accommodate the clock latency of the VSP2210.
In this mode, the digital output data come out at the rising
edge of ADCCK with a delay of 11 clock cycles (data
latency is 11). Note that in the normal operation mode, the
digital output data come out at the rising edge of ADCCK
with a delay of 9 clock cycles (data latency is 9).
BYPP2 (pin 29), BYP(pin 31), BYPM(pin 32) are also
reference voltages to be used in the analog circuit. BYP
should be connected to ground with 0.1µF ceramic capaci-
tor. The capacitor value for BYPP2 and BYPM affects the
step response. Therefore, we consider 1000pF is the reason-
able value. However, it depends on the application environ-
ment; we recommend making careful adjustments using
trial-and-error.
All of BYPP2, BYP and BYPM should be heavily decoupled
with appropriate capacitors, and not used elsewhere in the
system. They affect the stability of these reference level, and
cause performance degradation. Note that these are analog
output pins.
SERIAL INTERFACE
It is recommended that CLPOB should not be activated
during PBLK active period in order to keep a stable and
accurate OB clamp level. Since the CCDIN input is discon-
nected from the internal circuit, even if the auto-calibration
loop is closed while CLPOB is active, the OB clamp level is
different from the “actual” OB level established by CCD
imager output. The missed OB clamp level would affect the
picture quality.
The serial interface has a 2-byte shift register and various
parallel registers to control all the digitally programmable
features of the VSP2210. Writing to these registers is con-
trolled by four signals (SLOAD, SCLK, SDATA, RESET).
To enable the shift register, SLOAD must be pulled LOW.
SDATA is the serial data input and the SCLK is the shift
clock. The data at SDATA is taken into the shift register at
the rising edge of SCLK. The data length should be 2 bytes.
After the 2-byte shift operation, the data in the shift register
is transferred to the parallel latch at the rising edge of
SLOAD. In addition to the parallel latch, there are several
registers dedicated to the specific features of the device and
they are synchronized with ADCCK. It takes 5 or 6 clock
cycles for the data in the parallel latch to be written to those
registers. Therefore, to complete the data updates, it requires
5 or 6 clock cycles after the parallel latching by the rising
edge of SLOAD.
If the input voltage is higher than the supply rail by 0.3V, or
lower than the ground rail by 0.3V, protection diodes will be
turned on to prevent the input voltage from going further.
Such a high swing signal may cause device damage to the
VSP2210 and should be avoided.
STAND-BY MODE
For the purpose of power saving, the VSP2210 can be set to
Stand-By mode (or Power-Down mode) through the serial
interface when the VSP2210 is not in use. Refer to “Serial
Interface” section for more detail. In this mode, all the
function blocks are disabled and the digital outputs will go
to all ZEROs. The consumption current will drop to 1mA.
Since all the bypass capacitors will discharge during this
mode, a substantial time (usually of the order of 200ms to
300ms) is required to power up from Stand-By mode.
See Table II for the serial interface data format. TEST is the
flag for the test mode (Burr-Brown proprietary only), A0 to
A2 is the address for the various registers, and D0 to D11 is
the data or the operand field.
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