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TMS320C6657 Evaluation Lite Module camera interface

pourang mahdavi
Prodigy 80 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TMS320C6657

Hello, any app note or information as how to interface the TMS320C6657  such as the Lite Evaluation Module to a camera?

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    TI__Guru* 81335 points

    Hi Mahdavi,

    Welcome to the TI E2E forum. I hope you will find many good answers here and in the TI.com documents and in the TI Wiki Pages (for processor issues). Be sure to search those for helpful information and to browse for the questions others may have asked on similar topics (e2e.ti.com).

    From my understanding, We don't have app note and keystone EVM's does not support to interface camera. Please refer below thread for more information,
    e2e.ti.com/.../379769
    Thank you.

  • 0 in reply to Raja
    Prodigy 80 points
    Thanks Rajasekaran for your reply. This is not for video but image sensing. A camera will take pictures of a liquid and the DSP will filter the image and count the particles in it. The problem is, embedded image sensors and cameras on the market are mostly USB or Ethernet based and have SDKs and APIs for windows and Linux. So the question is how to tranfer the data from them to TMS320C6657 EVM. Any idea? Do you think installing SYS/BIOS and Linux MCSDK on EVM would allow us to connect to these cameras through USB or Ethernet?
  • 0 in reply to pourang mahdavi
    TI__Guru* 81335 points

    So the question is how to tranfer the data from them to TMS320C6657 EVM. Any idea?

    The camera can be connected to Windows/Linux based host through USB/Ethernet and C6657 EVM can be connected through PCIe slot using adaptor card. With this configuration, image data can be read using camera SDK and can be send to DSP for processing via PCIe using MCSDK 2.x.

    Do you think installing SYS/BIOS and Linux MCSDK on EVM would allow us to connect to these cameras through USB or Ethernet?

    The Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) provides the core foundational building blocks that facilitate application software development on TI's high performance and multicore DSPs. The MCSDK & CCS will be installed on Windows/Linux based host not on EVM for application development for C66xx devices.

  • 0 in reply to Raja
    Prodigy 80 points

    Thanks Raja. We'd like to have a stand alone solution without PC so going through PCI is not an option. We want to capture the image sensor data in raw mode and from my research it seems Video Port is what we need and DaVinci DSPs have it. However, in this application we possibly dont need any ARM processor. So, to keep it simple just a C6-like DSP is preffered. App note SPRU629G talks about Video Ports of C64x but does not say which ones have it. Is there a C64 DSP or DaVinci without ARM available with video port? 

  • 0 in reply to pourang mahdavi
    TI__Mastermind 43660 points

    Hello Pourang,

    The video port is available in Davinci devices like DM647 (DSP only) device and available for C64x devices. Please refer table 2 in below reference guide.

    Regards,

    Senthil

  • 0 in reply to Senthilkumar Srinivasan
    TI__Guru* 81335 points
    Pourang,
    Updated the above post with correct document link.