Array configuration and readout scheme

US8731847B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Life Technologies Corporation · US

Inventors

• Kim L. Johnson · Carlsbad, US
• Jeremy Christopher Jordan · Cromwell, US
• Peter M. LEVINE · New York, US
• Mark Milgrew · Branford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 2011
• Grant date: May 20, 2014
• Expiry date: Mar 27, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/25875
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The described embodiments may provide a chemical detection circuit that may comprise a plurality of first output circuits at a first side and a plurality of second output circuits at a second side of the chemical detection circuit. The chemical detection circuit may further comprise a plurality of tiles of pixels each placed between respective pairs of first and second output circuits. Each tile may include four quadrants of pixels. Each quadrant may have columns with designated first columns interleaved with second columns. Each first column may be coupled to a respective first output circuit in first and second quadrants, and to a respective second output circuit in third and fourth quadrants. Each second column may be coupled to a respective second output circuit in first and second quadrants, and to a respective first output circuit in third and fourth quadrants.