topic How many camera inputs can be used in IMX6 Quad simultaneously? in i.MX Processors

How many camera inputs can be used in IMX6 Quad simultaneously?

ivyliu — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:04:40 GMT

Hi,

I am now using IMX6 Quad.

I know it support 2 parallel ports and 1 MIPI port.

IMX6 Quad has 2 IPUs.

Could you please tell me can it use these 3 ports simultaneously?

If it can, is it right that MIPI and 1 parallel use 1 IPU and the other parallel use another IPU?

Thank you very much!

Best Regards,

Ivy

Re: How many camera inputs can be used in IMX6 Quad simultaneously?

igorpadykov — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:53:27 GMT

Hi Ivy

you are right: two IPUs and each has two CSI :

In general you can connect 4 cameras to the MIPI CSI-2 interface.

For this you have to multiplex the four streams in an FPGA.

Each camera in this case should use a different stream

identifier (stream 0-3), 4 data streams can the be distributed across

the 4 CSI.

Best regards

igor

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Re: How many camera inputs can be used in IMX6 Quad simultaneously?

art — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 06:35:13 GMT

The i.MX6Quad processor has three camera ports, physically routed out of the chip: two parallel ones (IPU1_CSI0 and IPU2_CSI1) and one MIPI CSI. The MIPI CSI port input can be routed to any of the two IPUs with so-called MIPI_CSI-to-IPU gasket module. And, yes, you can use all these three ports simultaneously.

Have a great day,
Artur

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Re: How many camera inputs can be used in IMX6 Quad simultaneously?

ivyliu — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:12:45 GMT

Hi Igor and Artur,

Thank you very much for the prompt reply!!

Best Regards,

Ivy

Re: How many camera inputs can be used in IMX6 Quad simultaneously?

ivyliu — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 16:30:14 GMT

Hi Igor,

Thank you very much for your prompt reply!!

Best Regards,

Ivy