CMOS Active Pixel Sensor Technology

California Institute of Technology has licensed over 80 patents to Forza Silicon, which represent fundamental patents in CMOS Active Pixel Sensor (APS) technology, including:.

• Patent #6570617 - "CMOS Active Pixel Sensor Type Imaging System on a Chip"
• Patent #6,990,506 - "Active Pixel Sensors with Substantially Planarized Color Filtering Elements"

Forza is able to sublicense these patents to our clients.

Forzafied Intellectual Property

With over 60 years of combined experience in IC design, our designers have worked in leading companies such as NASA’s JPL, Photobit Corporation, Micron Imaging, IBM, AMCC, and Teradyne. Forza continuously builds upon this experience by filing patents on design innovations, new architectures and process technologies related to CMOS image sensor and high speed solutions. In addition, Forza Silicon has a formidable repository of schematics, circuit designs, HDL source, Analog and Digital IP Blocks, which facilitate rapid development of custom, high peformance, mixed signal designs that exceed our client's specifications and time-to-market requirements.

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