Xue sensor selection query

Andrés Calderón andres.calderon at emqbit.com
Thu Nov 18 07:13:16 EST 2010


 On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Wolfgang Spraul <wolfgang at sharism.cc>wrote:

> David,
> thanks for writing!
>
> > I'd noticed that the sensor page on Xué indicated that the Aptina
> > MT9M033C12STC was currently being sampled (tested?), and was wondering
> > whether any of the other sensors had been tested
>

Hi,

A comparison of some sensors:
http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Xue/sensors

We gave priority to the sensitivity of the sensor (up to *120db!*).

The sensor in action:
http://www.altera.com/education/webcasts/videos/videos-image-processing-fpgas.html

Regards,

    Andrés Calderón
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>
> We have placed a firm order for 30 of those sensors, and expect to
> get them in mid-December. Expensive ICs, we paid 18.90 USD / sensor!
> If we get them, I'm sure we will build the first cameras with those
> sensors, and will try to unlock the full potential of these ICs with
> free software for quite some time, maybe a year or more?
>
> > especially those with higher resolution.
>
> What is good about higher resolution?
>
> > OV14810, for example, looks interesting.
>
> What parameters do you look at in a sensor? Can you tell us a bit
> more about your use case, what you have in mind with Xué?
>
> > On the point of adding a second sensor, will a only a single sensor type
> > be supported via on-board circuitry?  (I suppose the supplied Ethernet
> > could be used for attaching a variety of second sensor modules; e.g.,
> > Elphel.)
>
> How do you want to attach another sensor via Ethernet? Sure with
> Ethernet you could connect to other IP cameras, including Elphel, but
> that would be at a very different level from getting sensor data into
> an FPGA.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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