[sdiy] RAM CCD

[James Patchell]

Not as a CCD, but as an imager (focal plane)...I knew some people who were 
doing research on doing that, but in the end, for their application, the 
performance-cost ratio just wasn't there...I don't know if anybody ever did 
such a thing or not in a commercial product....
At 11:29 PM 1/22/2005 +0100, Peter Ullrich wrote:

> > >> Hey this is a nice segue into something I've been pondering about a very
> > >> similar thing. I have an old static RAM. I heard someone once say that
> > >> you could use a static RAM as a CCD camera.
> > >
> > > There was an old Circuit Cellar article in Byte Magazine that covered
> > > doing just this.  I dont seem to remember it being SRAM tho, but the
> > >article was about 20 years ago so I dont rightly remember details.
>
>I remember a similar article in the German magazine Elektor back in the 80s.
>They told that the 4164 (64kx1 dynamic ram) could be used as CCD chip...
>
>Ciao
>Peter
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