In terms of an integrated circuit, what is the term for a chip that is used in a camera to detect light?
I hope this photo helps. What is the technichal term for the light sensitive IC in a camera?
Term for a chip that is used in a camera to detect light
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You could certainly marry that camera to a Raspberry Pi and still stay within your budget.
That looks like a BGA surface mount component. It is possible to solder these parts to a PCB by hand using a variety of different methods.
- Use a hot-air rework station
- Use a reflow oven. This can be a professional one, or more commmon for hobbyists is to build your own from a toaster oven or a hot plate. For really cheap you can try using the toaster oven/hot plate without any extra controlling circuitry, just carefully watch the process.
Note: If you use the second option, be sure NOT to use the same toaster oven/hot plate for cooking food you're planning on eating or feeding to someone else.
Whichever method you choose you'll want to get a pair of very fine point tweezers, or even better a vacuum pickup tool.
You'll also want some kind of magnifying system. This allows you to precisely align components. Some people use a headband magnifier, others use a full-on desk microscope.
Soldering BGA packages also usually requires solder paste and flux.
You can get breakout prototyping boards for BGA packages, these are a basic PCB board which route the BGA's pinout to some through-hole pins you can solder headers or wires to.
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Best Answer
This is called an image sensor.
This particular image sensor in your picture is a CMOS image sensor, commonly found in pretty much anywhere a small to medium sized camera is used, as well in some big and/or professional gear. The camera in your phone is almost certainly a CMOS image sensor. It is probably also the type of sensor captured the image you posted here.
The other major type of image sensors besides CMOS is CCD, which is an older (but in no way inferior) technology and commonly found in older gear as well as more professional digital photography gear now.
In the construction of a digital camera, the image sensor is placed where photographic film used to be placed in traditional film cameras. Some modern DSLR even accepts lens assemblies from those film cameras (like the one I occasionally used which took over the set of lenses from my older film SLR.)