Image sensor with control signal sequence generation

An image sensor comprising a matrix of rows and columns of active pixels, readout circuits, and a sequencing circuit for applying control signals to the pixels and/or to the readout circuits according to clearly determined sequences, wherein the sequencing circuit comprises:

• a programmable addressable memory containing binary words in which each word comprises a group of several bits of position 1 to N, and in which the position i of a bit in a word corresponds to the position i of a respective control signal from among a series of control signals for pixels and/or readout circuits of the sensor,
• a memory controller for extracting from the memory at a fixed clock rate the words located at successive addresses of the memory from a start address to an end address, which define respectively the beginning and the end of an operational sequence of the image sensor,
• and a control signal generation circuit establishing each control signal of position i from the succession at the fixed clock rate of bits of respective position i that are extracted from the memory by the controller, the control signal having a first value or a second value according to the value of the bit and changing value when the bit changes value.