SoC provides high-quality VGA camera images, sensitivity to low light levels

OmniVision Technologies, Inc. announced the OV0VA10 SoC, which integrates the industry’s most advanced VGA image sensor and signal processor in a single chip-scale package. The SoC’s OmniPixel 3-HS architecture allows entry level, thin-bezel notebook designers to incorporate the very best VGA camera performance with excellent low light image capture for applications such as videoconferencing. Additionally, it offers 30% lower power consumption than the leading competitor to extend battery life.

The OV0VA10 provides the industry’s best low light VGA camera performance. Additionally, its OmniPixel 3-HS architecture enhances color performance with symmetric pixel design to eliminate color shading and optimize the signal-to-noise ratio. It also offers high quantum efficiency for truer-to-life color reproduction and superior low light performance, while operating at 30fps for smooth video conferencing.

This SoC’s integrated image sensor has a 1/10” optical format and 2.2-micron pixel size, enabling a 4mm camera module in the Y dimension for the latest entry-level notebooks with thinner bezels. Additionally, it is manufactured using an advanced 200mm wafer process and is offered in an 8” chip-scale package with a DVP interface.

The OV0VA10 VGA SoC is available now for volume production, sampling, and evaluation kits, along with OmniVision’s onsite customer tuning service.