The invention provides a pixel circuit and an
infrared imager, and relates to the field of
infrared imaging. The integration module performs integration and coarse quantization through the common module and the
charge injection module at the same time; the
charge injection module injects charges into an integrating
capacitor in the integrating module; the dynamic
comparator generates a counting
signal in the process of carrying out fine quantization on the
residual voltage, the
linear feedback shift register counter counts, the counting result is a coarse quantization result, the dynamic
comparator generates the counting
signal in the process of carrying out fine quantization on the
residual voltage, the
linear feedback shift register counter receives the counting
signal and counts from 0, and the counting result is a fine quantization result. According to the pixel circuit, coarse and fine quantization share the same module, so that the pixel area is reduced. According to the pixel circuit, part of charges are injected into the integrating
capacitor in stages, compared with the injection of equal charges, the introduced
noise is lower, the
noise charges injected every time are reduced on the whole, the signal-to-
noise ratio is improved, and therefore the overall
power consumption of the pixel circuit is reduced. The pixel circuit has lower
power consumption and better quality factor.