一种基于sCMOS的商业天基望远镜成像电路

    Design of imaging circuit for commercial space-based telescope based on sCMOS

    • 摘要: 基于工业级sCMOS传感器Gsense400BSI研制了一种高集成度、低成本、低功耗和高可靠性的成像电路,电路采用FPGA作为主控芯片,采用双DDR3实现数据缓存,电路包络尺寸为70mm×70mm×20mm。与此同时,为降低成本,提高电路的能效比和稳定性,选用有飞行经历的工业级器件,对供电纹波要求的低功耗供电网络和大功率器件散热布局等方面进行多项优化。通过测试得到该成像电路功耗小于2W。在没有主动制冷模块的情况下,该电路在轨工作良好。在轨成像期间sCMOS传感器温升不超过0.1℃,在某些应用领域摆脱了对制冷措施的依赖。由于sCMOS传感器具有高集成度、低噪声和高量子效率的特征,可用于实现对微弱星光的识别,应用自动曝光算法可快速得到合适的曝光时间范围,因此该电路在商业天基天文观测领域具有广阔的应用前景。

       

      Abstract: It is developed an imaging circuit with high integration, low cost, low power consumption and high reliability based on the industrial-grade sCMOS sensor Gsense400BSI in this paper, The circuit uses FPGA as the main control chip, and uses double DDR3 to realize data cache. The circuit envelope size is 70mm×70mm×20mm. In order to reduce the cost and improve the energy efficiency ratio and stability of the circuit, several optimizations were carried out in terms of selecting industrial-grade devices with flight experience, low-power power supply network that can meet the requirements of power supply ripple, and heat dissipation layout of high-power devices.The imaging circuit consumes less than 2W.In the absence of an active cooling module, the circuit works well in orbit.With the temperature rise of the sCMOS sensor not exceeding 0.1℃ during each track of imaging, freeing it from reliance on refrigeration measures in some application areas. Because sCMOS sensors are characterized by high integration, low noise, and high quantum efficiency, which enable the recognition of weak starlight, appropriate exposure time range can be quickly obtained by applying automatic exposure algorithm, the imaging circuit has broad application prospects in the field of commercial space-based astronomical observation.