One of the biggest challenges for engineers looking to add embedded vision or image sensors to a design is the diversity in camera and sensor hardware interfaces, which is enough to make your head explode. A standard like the MIPI Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2), a high-speed protocol that defines the interface between the image sensors, ISP and a host processor, is widely used today for high-speed communications output from image sensors in most embedded systems. Its popularity is due to the fact that it vastly reduces the complexity of integration for developers.
But existing standards like this describe only the electrical interface—namely point-to-point image and video transmission between cameras and host devices and a software protocol. Up until now, none have addressed the physical connection, defining such pesky but necessary details like which signal will reside on which pin. In this presentation we will discuss the new, standardized IAS (Imager Access System) MIPI sensor interface, which addresses hardware, and where it’s gaining traction among suppliers.
This presentation will provide an overview of:
• A range of popular image sensors and how they map to specific vision applications
• The new IAS MIPI sensor interface
• Different camera modules using the IAS sensor interface for industrial embedded vision applications
• NXP and Xilinx-based vision platforms using IAS sensor interface
• Demo of facial recognition application using an example development platform using IAS sensor interface
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