Open source USB C camera with C mount lens, MIPI Sensor, Lattice FPGA, USB 3.0

Re:Open source USB C camera with C mount lens, MIPI Sensor, ... by jhallenworld on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:05AM (#34026781)

Nice project! I've used Crosslink-NX and Cypress FX-3 on various MIPI camera projects as well. Did you notice that Radiant does not control the timing of the data from the mixel hardmacro to your FPGA logic? (click on one of the pins in the physical viewer to see this). I ended up adding a ring of flip-flops and physically locking them near the top edge of chip to get consistent timing.

Looking at code: why are you not using the byte aligner built into the hardmacro?

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Re:Open source USB C camera with C mount lens, MIPI Sensor, ... by circuitvalley on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:18AM (#34027505)

FPGA ISP i am using with this project is improved version of ISP that i made for lattice machxo3 FPGA , those FPGA like most FPGAs do not have any MIPI hard PHY. If you want to port this ISP to Xilinx you would not find hard PHY in many FPGAs and you would need a byte aligner. That is why Byte Aligner was implemented and left enabled in there for the sake of portability to other FPGA it does not hurt (except for may be very very small performance in very edge case or some FPGA resource consumption).

I had many issues with Crosslink NX part. I never specifically got/or noticed the issue you have mentioned.

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