Monday, 27 January 2014

Processor with hardware camera interface port?


I was looking for a processor to interface to the DVP port of a 5MP CMOS camera module.


I could possibly write the software for doing this but I've heard that many processors have a hardware camera interface port that makes the job much efficient.


What would like to do is capture frames from this camera and store it in external ram for some processing later.


Any idea how could I get around doing this? I just a small enough processor about 44pins or 64pins or so that has a camera interface port and external memory interface.


Edit: I think a small enough processor isn't going to be available, I'd be lucky if someone finds some most of the processor pointed out in the answers have 200+ pins. So feel free to point to processors without the "pins" limitation.



Answer



Have you looked at the Gumstix Overo COMs? COM = Computer On Module. They have a dedicated camera interface (J5). Beagleboard may have this as well, as it is the same OMAP35xx series processor.


If you want to roll your own, there are many, many microprocessors with camera interfaces. Freescales i.MX series of devices (i.MX31, i.MX51, etc.), the OMAP processors I mentioned above, Atmel has the AT91SAM series... What other features do you need?


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