Datasheet of Toshiba and Sony CCDs

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AlessandroLamba

Joined Feb 27, 2023
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I have some linear CCDs I'd like to use for a spectrum analyzer but could not find any useful information and all links I found lead to some different part names. The CCDs are Toshiba TCD2952DG and Sony ILX538K
Thank you very much for your support.
 

LesJones

Joined Jan 8, 2017
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This post seems to be the same as your post yesterday. Duplicate posts cause confusion.
I did not respond yesterday as I have no idea where in a spectrum analyzer design you could use a Toshiba TCD2952DG image sensor. (I suspect others did not respond for the same reason.) Can you explain how you plan to use a CCD device in a spectrum analyzer.
A quick google search found a datasheet for the Toshiba TCD2952DG.
Thsi is the URL to the result
https://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/153429/TOSHIBA/TCD2950D.html

Les.
 

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AlessandroLamba

Joined Feb 27, 2023
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This post seems to be the same as your post yesterday. Duplicate posts cause confusion.
I did not respond yesterday as I have no idea where in a spectrum analyzer design you could use a Toshiba TCD2952DG image sensor. (I suspect others did not respond for the same reason.) Can you explain how you plan to use a CCD device in a spectrum analyzer.
A quick google search found a datasheet for the Toshiba TCD2952DG.
Thsi is the URL to the result
https://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/153429/TOSHIBA/TCD2950D.html

Les.
Thank you for your reply.
The post is the same because I was hinted to do this by the system or an administrator (can't tell) because the thread was almost one year old. I'm no expert of inner working of forums, I rarely post somewhere, and still have to understand the workings of AAC's. Sorry if this is not what was expected from me.
As for the second part of your reply, I designed and 3D-printed a box with two razor blades on one side of the small box, as the slit of the analyzer. On the other side of the box I placed a diffraction grating (plastic, from Amazon, made in Israel) and it works great at the eye. Now I'd like to place the CCD behind the diffraction grating (with a collimator) and read location and intensities of the peaks of the spectrum into a microcontroller (STM32F401, probably) and display onto a small TFT display.
Of course Google searches returned some similar hits, but with CCDs I understand that similar in part number does not mean similar in electrical and physical characteristics, and since I just have one CCD per type I better be careful and stick to the exact datasheet: AFAIK TCD2950 can be completely different or totally equivalent to the TCD2952, can't tell.
Hope this helps. Thank you. Alex
 

LesJones

Joined Jan 8, 2017
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I had not noticed that the search had taken me to a result that was slightly different to the part number that I put in the search. On this forum we would assume that a spectrum analyzer was for looking at radio frequencies. I have never seen the term used with respect to the visible part of the spectrum. I did once try using a small piece of a compact disk as a diffraction grating but it was not very succesful.

Les.
 
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