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Embedded Vision, MIPI camera modules from Germany for OEMs
Vision Components is a leading international manufacturer of embedded vision systems with over 25 years of experience. The product range extends from versatile MIPI camera modules to freely programmable board cameras with ARM/Linux and OEM systems for 2D / 3D image processing. Products are applied in UAVs in agriculture, automation, surveillance.
At XPONENTIAL, Vision Components will present new MIPI camera modules and components for even more efficient and faster implementation of embedded vision projects. The highlight will be the FPGA-based hardware accelerator VC Power SoM, which completes complex image processing calculations and transfers the results directly to a processor board. The module is extremely compact at only 28 mm x 24 mm. It features mature FPGA technology and comprehensive image processing functionalities. It can be directly integrated into embedded vision mainboard designs as a module or combined with an I/O board with multiple MIPI interfaces. Using the VC Power SoM, OEMs can employ the full computing power of their preferred embedded processor board for the main application. The German manufacturer is developing own FPGA designs for applications such as color conversion, 1D barcode identification, epipolar correction, etc., and will be happy to present this work.
Caption: Sample application with VC Power SoM: stereo camera with direct data processing on the edge device
Vision Components is continually expanding its range of image sensor modules for easy integration in MIPI embedded vision applications. Additional exhibits include several of the latest additions to the portfolio that open up new application areas for vision OEMs: SWIR and 3D/ToF VC MIPI camera modules, and an enlarged range of VC MIPI camera modules with SONY Pregius S series sensors. The company will also showcase its versatile range of full-fledged embedded vision systems featuring powerful, fast processors from a stamp-sized board camera to enclosed cameras in a rugged housing with ethernet interfaces. All products are developed and produced by Vision Components in Germany and are long-term available and suitable for commercial solutions.
Vision Components at XPONENTIAL
Denver, CO, USA, 8 – 11 May 2023
Booth #3632
About Vision Components
Vision Components is a leading international manufacturer of embedded vision systems. The freely programmable cameras with powerful onboard CPUs perform image processing tasks on their own without the need for an additional computer. Vision Components offers OEMs versatile Linux-based embedded systems for 2D and 3D image processing, supplied as board cameras or in protective casings. These are complemented by a growing range of ultracompact MIPI camera boards, which connect to a variety of different CPU boards. In addition, Vision Components offers software libraries and develops customized solutions on request. The team of experts can draw on extensive knowledge and over 20 years of experience with imaging applications. The company based in Ettlingen in southwestern Germany was founded in 1996 by Michael Engel, the inventor of the first industrial-grade intelligent camera. More world premieres followed, including the world's first intelligent vision sensors and the first-ever embedded 3D laser profiler. Today, Vision Components has sales offices in the United States and Japan and works with local partners in over 25 countries to provide consistent customer focus and readily available expertise throughout the world.
Vision Components has integrated four new Sony Pregius S sensors into MIPI camera modules for embedded vision. Featuring high image quality, light sensitivity and readout rates, the IMX565, IMX566, IMX567 and IMX568 global shutter sensors are perfect for high-speed applications such as industrial inspection. The VC carrier boards are designed for efficient repeatable industrial processing: robust, with excellent heat dissipation and prefabricated mounting holes and precision fittings. The MIPI-CSI-2 port allows for easy connection to all common processor platforms. Vision Components supplies high-performance cables and other accessories perfectly matched to the boards from a single source and provides customers with proven drivers free of charge. This enables vision OEMs to bring their projects to series maturity faster, with less effort and lower costs. Vision Components is continuously expanding its VC MIPI portfolio, adding more image sensors, accessories and developer kits. Specific sensors can be integrated on request.
More information: www.mipi-modules.com
Caption: Vision Components offers one of the most comprehensive portfolios of MIPI camera modules and has now added four Sony Pregius S global shutter sensors
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VC Power SoM is an FPGA-based hardware accelerator can handle complex image processing tasks It can be easily integrated into the design of embedded vision electronics and allows more flexibility in processor board selection. Measuring only 2.8 cm x 2.4 cm, the tiny module provides image processing such as color space conversions, barcode identification, and data fusion of stereo vision and multi-camera applications.
VC Power SoM is available with openFPGA for customer programming along with demo applications. For series productions, VC Power SoM can either be combined with an already available carrier board with multiple MIPI inputs and outputs, or it can be integrated directly into the design of a mainboard as a building block.
Vision Components adapts the widest range of machine vision image sensors on MIPI camera modules and is the first manufacturer to also integrate non-native MIPI sensors such as Sony Pregius IMX250 and IMX252. The portfolio currently comprises 10 sensors with resolutions up to 20 MP and is being continuously expanded. It includes global shutter, rolling shutter, and global reset shutter versions. The latter offer significant price advantages over global shutter variants with roughly the same functionality. The compact, only 23.5 mm wide VC MIPI boards feature a 22-pin MIPI CSI-2 port for FPC (flexible printed circuit) cables. They are compatible to over 20 CPU boards including NVIDIA Jetson, DragonBoard, all Raspberry Pi boards, and all 96boards. Vision Components has developed proprietary shielded FPC cables that ensure robust data transfer and support the full bandwidth of the MIPI standard. The cables with two or four transmission lanes can be connected to 15 and 22-pin MIPI ports. Depending on the processor, this allows communication at twice the maximum speed of USB3 cameras.
The MIPI standard supports relatively short transfer distances. Vision Components has developed repeaters for its 200 mm cables that can amplify the signal up to five times. This allows transmission paths to be extended to more than 1 m without compromising speed or signal quality. The repeater board also features a trigger interface (image trigger input/flash trigger output) and thereby augments CPU boards lacking these particular interfaces. The VC MIPI range furthermore includes lens holders, filter discs, adapter boards, as well as custom carrier boards and interface extensions. In addition, the manufacturer has already developed stable drivers for the most common hardware combinations and is steadily continuing this work to connect additional boards. Vision Components provides these drivers to its customers free of charge.
More about MIPI: www.mipi-modules.com