TMDSDSK6713: How to interface a camera to DSK6713

Sreelakshmi S

Part Number: TMDSDSK6713

Hello all,

I'm working on an image processing algorithm which requires a camera to capture an image and do the processing on DSK6713 .The camera that I'm supposed to work with is Bumblebee .Since the DSK does not have a camera port or firewire port , the only way to connect is using the GPIO pins of the camera.
But , how can I connect the camera to the DSK ?How can I interface the DSK with the camera?

Thanks

over 5 years ago

0 Yordan Kovachev over 5 years ago

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Hi,

I've notified the design team. They will post their feedback directly here.

Best Regards,
Yordan

0 Mukul Bhatnagar over 5 years ago

TI__Guru* 78495 points

Hi Sreelakshmi
This is a very old EVM , and was not designed to interface to a camera.
As you mentioned that potentially you could use GPIOs to interface to a low end camera. The on board connector has the list of IOs that are brought out to interface with other devices or daughter card. You would need to review the schematic to see what is feasible.

We do not have any hardware or software reference to jump start your development on this.

If you have a proposal in mind and have doubts, we can try to review further.

Regards
Mukul

0 Sreelakshmi S over 5 years ago in reply to Mukul Bhatnagar

Prodigy 50 points

Hi Mukul ,
thanks for the reply . I will review the schematic once again and check for what's feasible.

0 Sreelakshmi S over 5 years ago in reply to Sreelakshmi S

Prodigy 50 points

Hi,

Which all interfaces are possible for connecting with the DSK6713 ? Is using a daughtercard convenient ? Or which camera is the most convenient to be used with the DSK ?

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Sreelakshmi

0 Mark Mckeown over 5 years ago in reply to Sreelakshmi S

TI__Mastermind 29290 points

Hi Sreelakshmi,

The Spectrum Digital Hardware technical reference document has good information about what you can connect to the DSK6713 and what signals are available for a daughter card. c6000.spectrumdigital.com/.../

See 2.6 Daughter Card Interface and 3.3 Expansion Connectors.

You mainly have HPI, which allows another processor to directly access internal memory of the '6713 processor; asynchronous memory, which allows the '6713 processor to read memories like asynchrnous SRAM (or an FPGA that supports the same protocol); and the McBSP/ GPIO signals.

Maybe you can put the McBSP1/0 into the SPI/ CLKSTP mode and find a SPI camera that operates at low frequencies. All the SPI signals are on J3, Peripheral Expansion Connector. Refer to 9 SPI Protocol: CLKSTP in SPRU580G. Something like www.arducam.com/.../

Hope this helps,
Mark

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