topic Solo Lite camera interface in i.MX Processors

Solo Lite camera interface

Rona — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:30:45 GMT

We have a custom board based on the "solo lite" version on the iMX6

We added a VGA GC0309 parallel camera

We use gstreamer to capture images and we see a very poor timing.

A single image is captured after more the 1 second and a series of captures are performed in a 3 images per second rate.

We do not need a video streaming for our application, but we would like to get about 5-6 images per second and still have the CPU power to perform some simple image processing and data manipulating on previous captured images.

What is the expected performance of the solo lite , taking into account it does not have any hardware accelerators other from the GPU?

Do you have an idea how to enhance the image capture processing time, without changing the CPU? ( the solo lite is not pin compatible with other iMX6 CPUs)

Thanks

Rona

Re: Solo Lite camera interface

igorpadykov — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 23:30:29 GMT

Hi RONIT

one can try simple camera test with unit test pxp_v4l2_test on

imx-test
www.nxp.com/lgfiles/NMG/MAD/YOCTO/imx-test-5.7.tar.gz

As for gstreamer, which one used in the case:

trac.gateworks.com/wiki/Yocto/gstreamer

One can try both options: gstreamer-imx (community version) and nxp plugins imx-gst described

in documentation on

http://www.nxp.com/products/software-and-tools/software-development-tools/i.mx-software-and-tools/i.mx-6series-i.mx-7series-software-and-development-tool-resources:IMX_SW

Best regards
igor
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