Solid state imaging device having a driver circuit composed of a storage system and a signal generator in the same substrate

An electronic apparatus, comprising;

• an electronic device driven by using (i) a plurality of kinds of first timing signals each of which is generated with a fixed repetition period and has a constant pulse waveform in every repetition period and (ii) a plurality of kinds of second timing signals each of which is generated in said repetition periods and in each of which the pulse waveform or number of pulses in said repetition period is not fixed, the generation of said first and second timing signals in every said repetition period is defined by signal generation control data, the electronic device has at least one operation mode, a plurality of operations is done in every said operation mode;
• and a timing signal generating device for generating said first and second timing signals adapted for driving said electronic device, wherein
• said signal generation control data includes at least one record for every operation mode of said electronic device,
• every said record includes a first field in which a control code for controlling one of the operations is recorded, a second field in which a code indicating one or more numerals representing one repetition period or successive repetition periods, said operation is executed once in every said repetition period, is recorded, and a third field in which a start address in said at least one rewritable storage, first record of a data defining the operation to be controlled by said control code being recorded at said start address, is recorded.

A timing signal generating device for generating timing signals, said device comprising:

• a solid-stage image pickup device having a plurality of photoelectric converter elements arranged in a row and column matrix, capable of generating and outputting image signals for one frame in a plurality of horizontal scan periods, said image signals being generated and outputted with one horizontal scan period represent signal charges accumulated in the photoelectric converter elements of at least one row, said image pickup device having at least one operation mode, a plurality of operations being performed in each of said plurality of operation modes;
• at least one rewritable storage, formed on a semiconductor substrate, for rewritably storing data;
• and
• a timing signal generator integrated together with said storage on said semiconductor substrate for receiving clock pulses, for counting the number of clock pulses, and for generating a sequence of timing signals of a plurality of kinds for each of said plurality of operation modes of the solid-state image pickup device, said sequence of timing signals being generated according to data stored in said storage.