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J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2011, 1, 77-96; doi:10.3390/jlpea1010077 OPEN ACCESS Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications ISSN 2079-9268 /journal/jlpea Article A Compact Digital Pixel Sensor (DPS) Using 2T-DRAM Xiaoxiao Zhang, Sylvain Leomant, Ka Lai Lau and Amine Bermak ⋆ Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China; E-Mails: zhangxx@ust.hk (X.Z.); eesleoma@ust.hk (S.L.); kakalau@ust.hk (K.L.L.) ⋆ Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: eebermak@ust.hk. Received: 7 December 2010; in revised form: 14 March 2011 / Accepted: 21 March 2011 / Published: 28 March 2011 Abstract: In digital pixel sensors (DPS), memory elements typically occupy large silicon area of the pixel, which significantly reduces the pixel’s fill factor while increases its size, power and cost. In this work, we propose to reduce DPS memory’s area and power overhead by reducing the memory requirements with a multi-reset integration scheme, and meanwhile employing a dynamic memory instead of traditionally exploited large 6T-SRAM cell. The operation of the DPS takes advantage from the chronological change of the code, which results in reduced memory needs without affecting the light resolution. In the proposed implement