Simulation and Analysis of Uncooled Microbolometer for Serial Readout Architecture

Algorithm 1

Algorithm for the thermal imager simulator.

() Get the thermal image as a reference.

() Get the thermal parameters of microbolometer.

() Get the bias parameters.

() Get the ROIC parameters.

() Generate the pulse sequence based on the ROIC architecture.

() Assign the resistance to each microbolometer pixel,

() where, = random(“uniform”, ±10% of )

() Assign the Johnson noise rms voltage to each microbolometer pixel,

() if dark condition equals true, then

()   Set

()   Set

()   Assign

() else

()   Evaluate

()   Evaluate

()   Assign

() Evaluate

() Evaluate

() Amplification and integration based on the readout topology.

() Analog to digital conversion using -bit non-ideal ADC.

() if dark condition equals true, then assign output as,

()   Calibration data

() else

()   Image data

() Display the output image (Calibration data – Image data).