FLIR LEPTON® Engineering Datasheet 
 
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Lepton Engineering Datasheet, Document Number: 500-0659-00-09 Rev: 203
 
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Contents 
1  INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 
1.1  REVISION HISTORY ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 
1.2  CONTACT US ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 
1.3  REFERENCES ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 
1.4  DEVICE OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................................................. 8 
1.5  KEY SPECIFICATIONS ........................................................................................................................................................... 9 
1.6  SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE .................................................................................................................................................... 11 
2  FUNCTIONAL 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) MODULE ......................................................................................................................... 13 
2.6  GENERAL PURPOSE PROCESSOR (GPP) ................................................................................................................................ 13 
2.7  VIDEO INTERFACE MODULE (VIDEO IF) ................................................................................................................................ 13 
2.8  ONE-TIME PROGRAMMABLE MEMORY (OTP) ...................................................................................................................... 13 
2.9  STATIC RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY (SRAM) ....................................................................................................................... 13 
2.10  GPIO INTERFACE MODULE (GPIO IF) ................................................................................................................................. 14 
2.11  VIDEO PIPELINE ............................................................................................................................................................... 14 
2.11.1  NUC .................................................................................................................................................................... 14 
2.11.2  Defect Replacement ........................................................................................................................................... 14 
2.11.3  Spatial / Temporal Filtering ............................................................................................................................... 14 
2.11.4  AGC .................................................................................................................................................................... 15 
2.11.5  Colorize .............................................................................................................................................................. 15 
2.12  MASTER CLOCK ............................................................................................................................................................... 15 
3  OPERATING STATES AND MODES ................................................................................................................................ 15 
3.1  POWER STATES ............................................................................................................................................................... 15 
3.2  FFC STATES .................................................................................................................................................................... 18 
3.3  GAIN STATES .................................................................................................................................................................. 22 
3.4  TELEMETRY MODES ......................................................................................................................................................... 23 
3.5  RADIOMETRY MODES ....................................................................................................................................................... 29