ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH AN ARRAY OF PROCESSING UNITS

摘要

The invention concerns electronics devices like X-ray detectors with an array of pixels (303) that can be combined (binned) into binning blocks of mxn pixels. According to the invention the available read-out lines (325) of the device are all connected to different binning blocks in each read-out step, such that up to m binning blocks are addressed simultaneously in the vertical direction when mxn binning is used. In this case, the output signals from the m vertically arranged blocks are distributed over the m read-out columns present int the mxn blocks. In a preferred embodiment, row address lines (361) together with diagonal address lines (371) and a simple activation logic (372) guarantee the required versatile addressing of the pixels.