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LEPTON® Engineering Datasheet 

 

The information contained herein does not contain technology as defined by the EAR, 15 CFR 772, is publicly available, 

and therefore, not subject to EAR.  NSR (6/14/2018). 

Information on this page is subject to change without notice. 

Lepton Engineering Datasheet, Document Number: 500-0659-00-09 Rev: 203

 

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Telemetry 

Row

 

 

Word 

start

 

 

Word 

End

 

Number 

of 16-bit 

Words

 

 

Name

 

 

Notes

 

11 

11 

Temperature 

Gain Mode 

Threshold Low to 

High (K) 

Temperature threshold in Kelvin used to 
determine when an Auto switch to High gain 
mode (while in Low gain mode) should occur in 
TLinear mode 

12 

13 

Reserved 

 

14 

14 

Population Gain 

Mode Threshold 

High to Low 

Population threshold in percent of the Gain Mode 
ROI used to determine when an Auto switch to 
Low gain mode (while in High gain mode) should 
occur 

15 

15 

Population Gain 

Mode Threshold 

Low to High 

Population threshold in percent of the Gain Mode 
ROI used to determine when an Auto switch to 
High gain mode (while in Low gain mode) should 
occur 

16 

21 

Reserved 

 

22 

25 

Gain Mode ROI  (startRow, startCol, endRow, endCol) 

26 

47 

22 

Reserved 

 

48 

48 

TLinear Enable 

State 

True if enabled 

49 

49 

TLinear 

Resolution 

T-Linear resolution (0 = 0.1, 1 = 0.01) 

50 

50 

Spotmeter Mean Spotmeter mean value in Kelvin within ROI 

51 

51 

Spotmeter 

Maximum 

Spotmeter max value in Kelvin within ROI 

52 

52 

Spotmeter 

Minimum 

Spotmeter min value in Kelvin within ROI 

53 

53 

Spotmeter 

Population 

Number of pixel in Spotmeter ROI 

Summary of Contents for Lepton 1.5

Page 1: ...80x60 and 160x120 active pixels available Thermal sensitivity 50 mK Integrated digital thermal image processing functions including automatic thermal environment compensation noise filters non uniform...

Page 2: ...L DESCRIPTION 12 2 1 FPA INTERFACE MODULE 12 2 2 SYSTEM CONTROL SYS CTRL MODULE 12 2 3 POWER MANAGEMENT MODULE 13 2 4 SOFTWARE BASED VIDEO PROCESSING SVP CORE MODULE 13 2 5 MEMORY SYSTEM MEMORY SYS MO...

Page 3: ...40 4 1 COMMAND AND CONTROL INTERFACE 40 4 1 1 User Defaults Feature 42 4 2 VOSPI CHANNEL 44 4 2 1 VoSPI Physical Interface 45 4 2 2 VoSPI Protocol Lepton 1 5 1 6 2 0 and 2 5 46 4 2 3 VoSPI Protocol Le...

Page 4: ...mera Temperature in Radiometry enabled Mode 31 Figure 11 Hypothetical Illustration of Camera Output vs Camera Temperature in Radiometry disabled Mode 32 Figure 12 Illustration of a Histogram for a 3x3...

Page 5: ...r for Successive Frames 60 Figure 38 Valid Frame Timing no loss of synchronization 61 Figure 39 Clock Too Slow Failure to Read an Entire Frame Within the Frame Period 61 Figure 40 Intraframe Delay Too...

Page 6: ...1 04 06 2018 Corrected part number for Lepton 1 5 Minor editorial changes Added document number 202 07 02 2018 Updated dimensions and weight 203 08 28 2018 Clarified validity of scene dynamic range Up...

Page 7: ...d by the EAR 15 CFR 772 is publicly available and therefore not subject to EAR NSR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton Engineering Datasheet Document Number 5...

Page 8: ...xed focus lens assembly an 80x60 or 160x120 long wave infrared LWIR microbolometer sensor array and signal processing electronics Some configurations are also provided with an integral shutter assembl...

Page 9: ...60 50 Yes 8 10 C to 140 C 17 m Lepton 2 5 500 0763 01 80 x 60 50 Yes Yes 8 10 C to 140 C 10 C to 450 C 17 m Lepton 3 0 500 0726 01 160 x 120 57 Yes 13 10 C to 140 C 12 m Lepton 3 5 500 0771 01 160 x 1...

Page 10: ...in accordance with Electrical Specifications page 73 Input supply voltage nominal 2 8 V 1 2 V 2 5 V to 3 1 V IO Power dissipation Nominally 150 mW at room temperature operating 5 mW standby For 2 0 2...

Page 11: ...ature coefficient of resistance TCR and low 1 f noise resulting in excellent thermal sensitivity and stable uniformity The microbolometer array is grown monolithically on top of a readout integrated c...

Page 12: ...epton camera module is shown in Figure 3 Figure 3 Lepton Detailed Block Diagram 2 1 FPA Interface Module The FPA Interface module generates timing and control signals to the FPA It also receives and d...

Page 13: ...e following functionality Servicing of CCI commands Initialization and configuration of the video pipeline Power management Other housekeeping functions 2 7 Video Interface Module Video IF The Video I...

Page 14: ...NUC block applies correction terms to ensure that the camera produces a uniform output for each pixel when imaging a uniform thermal scene Factory calibrated terms are applied to compensate for temper...

Page 15: ...4 2 11 5 Colorize The colorize block takes the contrast enhanced thermal image as input and generates a 24 bit RGB color output See Video Output Format Modes page 36 2 12 Master Clock In Lepton the ma...

Page 16: ...ons among the Five Power States The power states are listed here Off When no voltage is applied Lepton is in the off state In the off state no camera functions are available Uninitialized In the unini...

Page 17: ...6 The shutdown sequence shown in Figure 6 is the recommended transition back to the shutdown state It is also possible to transition between shutdown and on states via software commands as further de...

Page 18: ...riods of time degrade uniformity resulting in imagery which appears grainier Figure 7 b and or blotchy Figure 7 c Columns and other pixel combinations may drift as a group These drift effects may occu...

Page 19: ...Examples of Good Uniformity Graininess and Blotchiness Lepton provides three different FFC modes External default for shutter less configurations Manual Automatic default for configurations with shutt...

Page 20: ...nters this state when it is operating in automatic FFC mode The camera enters FFC imminent state at a specified number of frames default of 52 frames at 26Hz or approximately 2 seconds prior to initia...

Page 21: ...t possible opportunity Lepton automatically prohibits the shutter from operating when it detects the temperature to be outside the range 10 C to 80 C5 For example if the camera is operating at a tempe...

Page 22: ...500 0659 00 09 Rev 203 22 Figure 9 Relative Spatial Noise after FFC vs Number of Integrated Frames defaults is 8 3 3 Gain States Lepton 2 5 and 3 5 can be configured to operate in a high gain state t...

Page 23: ...hreshold is imaging a colder scene temperature than the user defined temperature threshold Gain mode ROI region of interest used for the calculations used to determine whether the scene conditions tem...

Page 24: ...A 0 0 1 Telemetry Revision Format major byte 1 minor rev byte 0 A 1 2 2 Time Counter 32 bit counter in units of msec elapsed since boot up A 3 4 2 Status Bits See Table 3 A 5 12 8 Module serial A 13...

Page 25: ...sec A 32 32 1 Housing temp at last FFC Updated every FFC Units are Kelvin x100 Lepton 2 5 3 5 A 33 33 1 Reserved A 34 37 4 AGC ROI top left bottom right A 38 38 1 AGC Clip Limit High See AGC page 15 A...

Page 26: ...0 High 1 Low 2 Auto C 6 6 1 Effective Gain Mode In Auto mode 0 High 1 Low C 7 7 1 Gain Mode Desired Flag 0 current gain mode is desired 1 gain mode switch desired C 8 8 1 Temperature Gain Mode Thresho...

Page 27: ...e Threshold High to Low Population threshold in percent of the Gain Mode ROI used to determine when an Auto switch to Low gain mode while in High gain mode should occur C 15 15 1 Population Gain Mode...

Page 28: ...notice Lepton Engineering Datasheet Document Number 500 0659 00 09 Rev 203 28 Telemetry Row Word start Word End Number of16 bit Words Name Notes C 54 54 1 Spotmeter ROI Start Row Spotmeter ROI startin...

Page 29: ...ired 1 FFC desired 4 5 2 FFC State7 00 FFC never commanded 01 FFC imminent 10 FFC in progress 11 FFC complete 6 11 6 Reserved 12 12 1 AGC State 0 Disabled 1 Enabled 13 14 2 Reserved 15 15 1 Shutter lo...

Page 30: ...tended as a fully radiometric camera therefore the factory defaults are defined to have both radiometry and TLinear modes enabled With radiometry mode enabled independent of TLinear state the Spotmete...

Page 31: ...tion as camera temperature changes particularly when the temperature change is rapid Also notice that responsivity is also independent of camera temperature that is the difference in output between tw...

Page 32: ...try disabled Mode 3 5 4 Radiometric Accuracy Module Lepton camera module radiometric accuracy in high gain mode is 5 C 25 C against a 35 C blackbody for a Lepton camera module using a simple test boar...

Page 33: ...must be considered Heat from nearby components such as electronic devices motors and solenoids and even heat from an operator s hand may directly or indirectly increase the radiation falling on the se...

Page 34: ...tor and AGC Calculation Enable State in the Software IDD for additional related options AGC is a process whereby the large dynamic range of the infrared sensor is collapsed to a range more appropriate...

Page 35: ...en an object and a much colder or hotter background can be rendered poor by the fact the algorithm collapses the separation between such that the object is only 1 gray shade above the background This...

Page 36: ...he brightness of objects in the scene more representative of their temperature differences The default values of both parameters produce a good compromise between the two however because optimum AGC i...

Page 37: ...Disable telemetry if required telemetry is not valid in RGB888 mode 2 Enable AGC colorization without AGC is not a valid permutation 3 Select RGB888 mode 4 Synchronize or re synchronize the VoSPI cha...

Page 38: ...in technology as defined by the EAR 15 CFR 772 is publicly available and therefore not subject to EAR NSR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton Engineering Data...

Page 39: ...0 0659 00 09 Rev 203 39 Figure 15 Comparison of an Identical Image with Grayscale and a False color Palette 3 8 GPIO Modes There are two supported GPIO modes Disabled default VSYNC enabled In disabled...

Page 40: ...run executing a function Table 6 shows a partial list of parameters features controllable through the CCI Note that the Power On Default field in the table is not always equivalent to the software def...

Page 41: ..._lo 85 C_lo_to_hi 388 T_hi_to_lo 358 T_lo_to_hi Gain States page 22 B8 26 VID Color LUT Select Fusion Video Output Format Modes page 36 n a VID User Color LUT Upload Download n a Video Output Format M...

Page 42: ...the CCI above to OTP such that an initialization sequence is not necessary at start up The OEM User Defaults command is described in the Software IDD The list of parameters that are included in the u...

Page 43: ...e 36 OEM Video Output Format Raw14 Video Output Format Modes page 36 OEM GPIO Mode Disabled GPIO Modes page 39 OEM GPIO VSYNC Phase Delay 0 lines Frame Synchronization page 53 RAD Radiometry Control E...

Page 44: ...SPI Channel The Lepton VoSPI protocol allows efficient and verifiable transfer of video over a SPI channel The protocol is packet based with no embedded timing signals and no requirement for flow cont...

Page 45: ...SR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton Engineering Datasheet Document Number 500 0659 00 09 Rev 203 45 Figure 16 VoSPI Flexible Clock Rate 4 2 1 VoSPI Physica...

Page 46: ...gure 18 SPI Mode 3 CPOL 1 CPHA 1 Figure 19 SPI Bit Order transmission of 0x8C08 The maximum clock rate is 20 MHz The minimum clock rate is a function of the number of bits of data per frame that need...

Page 47: ...e and bit resolution Telemetry mode Telemetry disabled default Telemetry enabled Video Format mode Raw14 default RGB888 Table 10 Packet Length and Number of Video Packets per Frame as a Function of Us...

Page 48: ...st significant bits of the ID and all sixteen bits of the CRC are set to zero for calculation of the CRC There is no requirement for the host to verify the CRC However if the host does find a CRC mism...

Page 49: ...ts are set to 0 For RGB888 mode the payload is 240 bytes long Excluding telemetry lines which are invalid in RGB mode each packet consists of pixel data for a single video line 3 bytes per pixel Each...

Page 50: ...ream A VoSPI stream is simply a continuous sequence of VoSPI frames following a synchronization event Provided that synchronization is maintained a VoSPI stream can continue indefinitely Note that the...

Page 51: ...able and therefore not subject to EAR NSR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton Engineering Datasheet Document Number 500 0659 00 09 Rev 203 51 Figure 25 Frame...

Page 52: ...now synchronized 4 2 2 3 2 Maintaining Sync There are three main violations that can result in a loss of synchronization Intra packet timeout Once a packet starts it must be completely clocked out wit...

Page 53: ...ilable Frame 4 2 2 3 3 Frame Synchronization The VoSPI protocol is designed such that embedded timing signals are not required However the Lepton does provide an optional frame timing output pulse tha...

Page 54: ...packets consisting of one quarter of a frame of pixel data To maintain synchronization it is necessary to read out each VoSPI segment before the next is available VoSPI Stream A VoSPI stream is defin...

Page 55: ...Payload 4 bytes 160 or 240 bytes depending upon bit resolution setting For video packets the header includes a 2 byte ID and a 2 byte CRC The ID field encodes the segment number 1 2 3 or 4 and the pa...

Page 56: ...e first bit of the ID field is always a zero The next three bits are referred to as the TTT bits and the following 12 are the packet number Note that packet numbers restart at 0 on each new segment Fo...

Page 57: ...ved see VoSPI Stream page 50 and in the idle period between frames Lepton transmits discard packets until it has a new frame from its imaging pipeline As shown in Figure 22 the 2 byte ID field for dis...

Page 58: ...gments Each valid Lepton 3 segment contains data for one quarter of a complete frame With telemetry disabled each segment includes 60 packets comprising 30 video rows When telemetry is enabled each se...

Page 59: ...ngineering Datasheet Document Number 500 0659 00 09 Rev 203 59 a Telemetry as header b Telemetry as footer 4 2 3 3 VoSPI Stream A VoSPI stream is simply a continuous sequence of VoSPI segments followi...

Page 60: ...also illustrated in Figure 37 The segment numbers will follow accordingly 1 2 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 etc where unique frames are comprised of segment numbers 1 2 3 4 and invalid frames are compr...

Page 61: ...de asserted or SCLK disrupted in the midst of the packet transfer an intra packet timeout is an unexpected event Failing to read out all packets for a given frame before the next frame is available T...

Page 62: ...next frame timing pulse is received The pulse is enabled by selecting the VSYNC GPIO mode via the CCI when enabled it is provided on the GPIO3 pin see GPIO Modes page 39 The signal can be configured a...

Page 63: ...decode the packet number from each packet header For Lepton 3 the host must decode both the packet number and the segment number 2 There is 4X more data to be read per frame on Lepton 3 compared to L...

Page 64: ...tion to integrating signal current the ROIC also digitizes and multiplexes the signal from each detector into a serial stream And the Lepton ROIC digitizes data from an on chip temperature sensor as w...

Page 65: ...EAR NSR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton Engineering Datasheet Document Number 500 0659 00 09 Rev 203 65 6 Mounting Specifications The Lepton camera mechan...

Page 66: ...is compatible with two commercially available sockets Molex 105028 1001 and Molex 105028 2031 illustrated in Figure 44 below The former makes electrical contact on the upper surface of a printed circu...

Page 67: ...technology as defined by the EAR 15 CFR 772 is publicly available and therefore not subject to EAR NSR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton Engineering Datashe...

Page 68: ...gning the foam thickness and compression the tolerances have to be such that the maximum force of 1kgF at the same time as enough force is exerted to keep the Lepton in the socket Figure 46 Recommende...

Page 69: ...in the Lepton with Radiometry STEP file To avoid mechanical vignetting do not impinge upon the keep out zone defined by this cone 7 Image Characteristics The information given in Table 13 applies acro...

Page 70: ...and therefore not subject to EAR NSR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton Engineering Datasheet Document Number 500 0659 00 09 Rev 203 70 The nominal minimum...

Page 71: ...e not subject to EAR NSR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton Engineering Datasheet Document Number 500 0659 00 09 Rev 203 71 8 Spectral Response For reference...

Page 72: ...o EAR NSR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton Engineering Datasheet Document Number 500 0659 00 09 Rev 203 72 Figure 48 Normalized Response as a Function of S...

Page 73: ...5 CFR 772 is publicly available and therefore not subject to EAR NSR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton Engineering Datasheet Document Number 500 0659 00 09...

Page 74: ...Description 1 6 8 9 10 15 18 20 25 27 30 GND Power GND CommonGround 2 GPIO3 VSYNC IN OUT VDDIO Video output synchronization see GPIO Modes page 39 3 GPIO2 IN OUT VDDIO Reserved 4 GPIO1 IN OUT VDDIO Re...

Page 75: ...Signal Level Description 16 VDDIO Power 2 8 V 3 1 V Supply used for System IO 17 VPROG See section 2 8 19 VDD Power 2 8V Supply for Sensor 2 8V 3 21 SCL IN VDDIO Camera Control Interface Clock I2C co...

Page 76: ...6 Volts VDDCpp VDDC peak to peak ripple voltage 50 mV VDD Sensor Voltage primary power for the Lepton internal sensor chip 2 72 2 80 2 88 Volts VDDpp VDD peak to peak ripple voltage 30 mV VDDIO3 I O V...

Page 77: ...90 to 10 SPI_CLK Fclk See note 3 20 MHz VoSPI clock rate SPI_CLK Fclk duty 45 50 55 SPI clock duty cycle SPI_CLK tr TBD SPI clock rise time 10 to 90 SPI_CLK tf TBD SPI clock fall time 90 to 10 SCL Fc...

Page 78: ...the device at these or any other conditions beyond those indicated under the recommended operating conditions listed in Table 19 is not implied Exposure to absolute maximum rated conditions for exten...

Page 79: ...ain technology as defined by the EAR 15 CFR 772 is publicly available and therefore not subject to EAR NSR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton Engineering Dat...

Page 80: ...Relative Humidity 95 Thermal Shock Air to air across operating temp extremes 10 C to 65 C 65 C to 10 C MechanicalShock 1500 g 0 4 msec Vibration Transportation profile 4 3 grms ESD Human Body Model H...

Page 81: ...in does not contain technology as defined by the EAR 15 CFR 772 is publicly available and therefore not subject to EAR NSR 6 14 2018 Information on this page is subject to change without notice Lepton...

Page 82: ...Anti reflection CCI Command and Control Interface CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check DSP Digital Signal Processor EMC ElectromagneticCompatibility FFC Flat Field Correction FOV Field of View FPA Focal Plane...

Page 83: ...gineering Datasheet Document Number 500 0659 00 09 Rev 203 83 RoHS Reduction of Hazardous Substances ROIC Readout Integrated Circuit SBNUC Scene basedNon uniformity Correction SNR Signal to Noise Rati...

Page 84: ...rted sold or leased in the United States The FCC regulations are designed to provide reasonable protection against interference to radio communications See 47 C F R 2 803 and 15 1 et seq Industry Cana...

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