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From: gcouger@olesun.okstate.edu (Gordon Couger)
Subject: Re: CCD shuttering
Message-ID: <1994Feb17.225027.13903@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu>
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 22:50:27 GMT
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In article <1994Feb14.184750.29078@mksol.dseg.ti.com>,
john r strohm <strohm@mksol.dseg.ti.com> wrote:
>In article <CL2s1E.KLz@ucdavis.edu> nelsonk@bunsen.cs.ucdavis.edu (Karl Nelson) writes:
>>Hello.  I am working on constructing a low resolution CCD camera for a
>>small robot.  I plan to use a TC211 chip to take the pictures.
>>However, the chip lacks a buffer area.  Therefore, I must either
>>shutter the CCD or pull the image out faster.  By my calcs it shows
>>that to pull out the image it would tkae at least 3ms to pull out the

As I remember all you have to do to "shutter" the DRAM is to start 
refreshing it. 
Gordon
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                              Oklahoma State University                         
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