MCU with parallel camera interface

Hey Amit,

Thanks for the quick reply! I didn't see the CC22xx series I'll definitely take a look. I have thought about scaling things up and building a system based off of the Sitara. I'm concerned with the amount of time and effort it might take to put together a AM335 based system though. Do you have any thoughts on the difficulty? I assume the bare minimum would be the AM335, DDR memory module, and flash memory module to store the program. I have no interest in running an OS so I feel as though that might reduce some of the integration time.

Thanks,
Jordan

Hello Jordan,

That would be C32xx and not C22xx. I am not the expert for AM335 devices, so you might want to post the question or check the answer repo in Sitara Forum

e2e.ti.com/.../791

Regards
Amit

Amit, before to post request on another forum area, missing data are the worst. camera to do what?
Production quantity planned?
Target product area and price.
Posting the data sheet of a processor of another firm is the worst specification I see so I am thinking this customer has none knowledge of what it need and seems (sorry but I feel this from a lot of same request to this forum) messing up.
So NOR TI NOR Other Arm NOR ST posted data sheet can securely run an unknown application!!!!!!!!!!
No idea if one processor can do what nor HIGHEST ultrafast video multidsp processor of this firm can afford unknown application.
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Robert,

In addition to your post being difficult to read, it offered no constructive information. Amit answered my question quickly and effectively.

Thanks,
Jordan

Your request is missing data, camera interface forever has a target, that target determine if normal processor, DSP, HIGH SPEED DSP has to be applied, what are your application?
Amit answered in an elusive manner I try same in his position.
What to select from TI^? TI has not an equivalent to that processor matching speed and on chip peripheral, close to can be CC3200 but clock is slower a lot, WIFI but not ehternet, there is no second source to ST product, AM3xxx family are an overkill to request just to not mess up with a low entry able to process high end camera, price and complexity are aligned too .
To select a processor to wherever task:
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What is the application?
Bandwidth of camera and resolution?
Type of image processing required?
Compression decompression of image?
Video Pre - Post processing?
Has to be remotely accessed from ethernet?
Network bandwidth?

If you provide a request with all this data we can analyse your request, otherwise we can try 3 door winning: low end, low end, high end. Try open a door and get a processor!
Have a good luck!

Hi Amit,

I am interested having a solution for a camera. If found the CC32xx attractive because it has WiFi builtin, and it has  8-bit parallel lines for the camera. But your above comment leads to a question  - what is the FPS that I can expect at the best ? I want 30 FPS ....

Thanks

-Sharma

Shrikumar Sharma said:

I am interested having a solution for a camera. If found the CC32xx attractive because it has WiFi builtin, and it has  8-bit parallel lines for the camera. But your above comment leads to a question  - what is the FPS that I can expect at the best ? I want 30 FPS ....

 I am interested have a Ferrari car, but I don't have money nor I know how to use....

 Did you think I can drive that car @200KM/h on a city way? I need to do some night shopping in a bank store ;)

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 What camera?

Resolution?

frame rate? (opps this is the only one provided)

RAW image stream or pre/post processing are required too?

what.....

 Too many detail missing to say yes or NO.

 Conservative answer with so much missing data is: can be yes can be NO!

Hello Sharma,

The serial camera is a JPEG camera and these cameras are very much dependent on two important factors.

1. Rate at which serial interface works (generally start cap-ing at 1Mbps)
2. How fast the DSP on the camera chip can convert RAW to JPG

The camera that I am using had a rider: It works upto 3.68Mbps but has almost 6 UART frame gaps between two transmissions at max transfer rate. Thus based on my initial compute what was supposed to be ~9fps turned out to be 1.5fps. But all is not bad, these cameras have motion detection as well, so they can alert the user when a movement in frame is detected and send it over UART. I am still investigating a list of such cameras.

Regards
Amit

Amit Ashara said:

Hello Sharma,

The serial camera is a JPEG camera and these cameras are very much dependent on two important factors.

1. Rate at which serial interface works (generally start cap-ing at 1Mbps)
2. How fast the DSP on the camera chip can convert RAW to JPG

 Hi Amit, my dear friend, I am sorry see you out of sync, please take care for your healt, our poster asked about an unknown parallel camera @30fps on CC3200, so this rate we don't know max bandwidth nor if camera send RAW, JPEG, MJPEG ....  Nor we know resolution and data rate more important than frame rate.

 I am evaluating some parallel low cost camera for VOIP and home automation too but I have no time to connect CC3200 and experiment. It is connected to OMAP from a long time, same time trouble and evaluation stopped after echo to local video...

 This otherwise is TIVA not CC3200 forum.