The CMV12000 is a high sensitivity pipelined global shutter CMOS image sensor with a resolution of 4096 x 3072 pixels (ultra HD 4:3 format). Pipelining means that exposure during read out is possible. The state-of-the-art pixel design makes true correlated double sampling (CDS) possible which reduces the fixed pattern noise and dark noise significantly. The imager integrates 64 LVDS channels each running at 300 Mbps resulting in a 300 fps frame rate at full resolution with 10 bits per pixel data output. Driving and read-out programming can be set over a serial peripheral interface. An internal timing generator produces the signals needed for read-out and exposure of the image sensor while external exposure triggering remains possible.