1. An image-sensing module, comprising:
a substrate unit including at least one flexible substrate, wherein the at least one flexible substrate has a main portion and at least two extending portions respectively and upwardly extended from two opposite lateral sides of the main portion, and the main portion has at least one through opening passing therethrough;
a light-transmitting unit including at least one light-transmitting element disposed on the top surface of the at least one flexible substrate and corresponding to the at least one through opening, wherein the at least one light-transmitting element is electrically connected to the at least one flexible substrate through a plurality of first conductive bodies;
an image-sensing unit including at least one image-sensing element disposed on the bottom surface of the at least one light-transmitting element and embedded in the at least one through opening, wherein the at least one image-sensing element is electrically connected to the at least one flexible substrate through a plurality of second conductive bodies;
a lens unit including an opaque frame disposed on the top surface of the at least one flexible substrate to surround the at least one light-transmitting element and a lens positioned on the opaque frame to correspond to the at least one light-transmitting element, wherein the lens unit is disposed on the main portion and between the at least two extending portions, and the lens unit has two opposite lateral sides respectively separated from the at least two extending portions; and
a connection unit including a plurality of adhesive substances separated from the second conductive bodies and disposed between the at least one light-transmitting element and the at least one image-sensing element for firmly fixing the at least one image-sensing element on the bottom surface of the at least one light-transmitting element and exposing the at least one image-sensing element from the at least one through opening of the at least one flexible substrate.
2. (canceled)
3. The image-sensing module of claim 1, wherein the substrate unit includes a plurality of electronic elements disposed on the at least one flexible substrate, and two of the electronic elements are electrically connected to each other through a first conductive track disposed on the main portion.
4. The image-sensing module of claim 1, wherein the substrate unit includes a plurality of electronic elements disposed on the at least one flexible substrate, and two of the electronic elements are electrically connected to each other through a first conductive track simultaneously disposed on the main portion and one of the at least two extending portions.
5. The image-sensing module of claim 1, further comprising: a conductive unit including a plurality of first conductive bodies disposed between the at least one light-transmitting element and the at least one flexible substrate and a plurality of second conductive bodies disposed between the at least one light-transmitting element and the at least one image-sensing element.
6. The image-sensing module of claim 5, wherein the at least one flexible substrate has at least one first conductive track disposed on the top surface thereof, the at least one light-transmitting element has at least one second conductive track disposed on the bottom surface thereof and electrically connected to the at least one first conductive track through one of the first conductive bodies, and the at least one image-sensing element has at least one third conductive track disposed on the top surface thereof and electrically connected to the at least one second conductive track through one of the second conductive bodies.
7. (canceled)
8. The image-sensing module of claim 1, wherein the bottom surface of the at least one flexible substrate are flushed with the bottom surface of the at least one image-sensing element.
9. An image-sensing module, comprising:
a substrate unit including at least one flexible substrate, wherein the at least one flexible substrate has at least one through opening;
a light-transmitting unit including at least one light-transmitting element disposed on the top surface of the at least one flexible substrate and corresponding to the at least one through opening, wherein the at least one light-transmitting element is electrically connected to the at least one flexible substrate through a plurality of first conductive bodies;
an image-sensing unit including at least one image-sensing element disposed on the bottom surface of the at least one light-transmitting element and embedded in the at least one through opening, wherein the at least one image-sensing element is electrically connected to the at least one flexible substrate through a plurality of second conductive bodies; and
a connection unit including a plurality of adhesive substances separated from the second conductive bodies and disposed between the at least one light-transmitting element and the at least one image-sensing element for firmly fixing the at least one image-sensing element on the bottom surface of the at least one light-transmitting element and exposing the at least one image-sensing element from the at least one through opening of the at least one flexible substrate.
10. (canceled)
11. An image-sensing module, comprising:
a flexible substrate having a through opening passing therethrough;
a light-transmitting element disposed on the top surface of the flexible substrate and above the through opening, wherein the light-transmitting element is electrically connected to the flexible substrate through a plurality of first conductive bodies;
an image-sensing element disposed on the bottom surface of the light-transmitting element and disposed in the through opening, wherein the image-sensing element is electrically connected to the light-transmitting element through a plurality of second conductive bodies; and
a connection unit including a plurality of adhesive substances separated from the second conductive bodies and disposed between the light-transmitting element and the image-sensing element for firmly fixing the image-sensing element on the bottom surface of the light-transmitting element and exposing the image-sensing element from the through opening of the flexible substrate;
wherein the image-sensing element is suspended from the light-transmitting element through the adhesive substances to form an air gap between an inner surface of the though opening and the image-sensing element.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method comprising:
receiving a first plurality of events timed by a first clock and a second plurality of events timed by a second clock;
rotating the bits of the one-hot value stored in a first memory in response to receiving an event of the first plurality of events and the bits of the threshold value stored in a second memory in response to receiving an event of the second plurality of events;
determining whether a first logic bit of the one-hot value matches position-wise with a first logic bit of the threshold value; and
generating an alarm signal if the first logic bit of the one-hot value matches position-wise with the threshold value.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the threshold value represents a maximum allowable magnitude of the jitter.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the threshold value comprises a set of second logic bits that is centered around one of a plurality of first logic bits.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the maximum value of the second logic bits in the threshold value is based on the size of the second memory.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one-hot value comprises one of a plurality of first logic bits that is centered around a second logic bit.
6. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating an error signal in response to generating the alarm signal.
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising modulating a point at which the jitter magnitude exceeds the threshold value.
8. An apparatus comprising
a one-hot register to store a one-hot value,
a threshold register to store a threshold value,
a set of logic devices coupled to the one-hot register and the threshold register to determine whether a first logic bit of the one-hot value matches position-wise with the threshold value after rotating the bits of the one-hot value upon receiving an event generated based on a first clock and after rotating the bits of the threshold value upon receiving an event generated based on a second clock, and
wherein the set of logic devices is to generate an alarm signal if the first logic bit of the one-hot value matches position-wise with the threshold value.
9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the threshold value represents a maximum allowable magnitude of the jitter.
10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the threshold register to store a set of second logic bits that is centered around one of a plurality of first logic bits.
11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the maximum value of the second logic bits in the threshold value is based on the size of the second memory.
12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the one-hot register to store the one-hot value comprises one of a plurality of first logic bits that is centered around a second logic bit.
13. The apparatus of claim 8 further comprises a first variable delay buffer coupled to the one-hot register to modulate a point at which the jitter magnitude exceeds the threshold value.
14. The apparatus of claim 8 further comprises a second variable delay buffer coupled to the threshold register to modulate a point at which the jitter magnitude exceeds the threshold value.
15. A system comprising:
a first sub-system to generate data units based on events timed on a first clock;
a data transfer device coupled to the first sub-system to transfer data units from the first sub-system to a second sub-system;
the second sub-system coupled to the data transfer device to receive the data units based on events timed on a second clock; and
a detector-coupled to the first sub-system and the second sub-system
to detect the magnitude of the jitter by comparing a one-hot value and a threshold value, wherein a plurality of bits of the one-hot value is rotated based on the events of the first clock and a plurality of bits of the threshold value is rotated based on the events of the second clock; and
to generate an alarm signal if a first logic bit of the one-hot value, position-wise, matches with the first logic bit of the threshold value.
16. The system of claim 15 the detector comprises
a one-hot register to store the one-hot value,
a threshold register to store the threshold value, and
a set of logic devices coupled to the one-hot register and the threshold register to determine whether the first logic bit of the one-hot value, position-wise, matches with the first logic bit of the threshold value after rotating the bits of the one-hot value on receiving an event of the first clock and after rotating the bits of the threshold value on receiving an event of the second clock.
17. The system of claim 15, wherein the first sub-system further comprises a error handling logic, which generates an error signal in response to receiving the alarm signal from the detector.
18. The system of claim 17, wherein the error handling logic avoids collision of a write pointer pointed to a first memory location of a first-in-first-out memory and a read pointer pointed to a second memory location of the first-in-first-out memory of the data transfer device in response to receiving the alarm signal.
19. The system of claim 16, wherein the detector further comprises
a first variable delay buffer coupled to the one-hot register to modulate a point at which the jitter magnitude exceeds the threshold value, and
a second variable delay buffer coupled to the threshold register to modulate a point at which the jitter magnitude exceeds the threshold value.