[MinnowBoard] connecting mipi/csi camera to the minnowboard

[Elad Bar]

Can a MIPI/CSI connector or connector by add to the next version of the
MinnowBoard ?


On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 8:34 PM, John Hawley <john.hawley at intel.com> wrote:

> The simple answer is no, we can't connect a MIPI/CSI camera to the
> MinnowBoard MAX/Turbot directly, as we lack a connector for MIPI/CSI.
>
> The longer, more complicated is: yes, but it's obviously complicated.
> The E38xx series SoCs do support MIPI/CSI on them directly, however
> because of space, complexity, cost, a lack of a commonly accepted
> connector, and general lack of open source drivers (at the time) for
> MIPI/CSI cameras, when the MAX/Turbot was designed we forwent a header
> for it.  Fast forward a bit and the situation with MIPI/CSI is better,
> but it's not currently on the board.  It could be added with a custom
> spin of the board, but I don't currently know of anyone doing that.
>
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
>
> On 10/29/2016 6:34 AM, Elad Bar wrote:
> > Is it possible to connect a mipi/csi camera to the Minnowboard MAX/Turbo
> > like the one on
> > the Raspberry Pi ?
> >
> >
> >
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