AD Interfacing Blackfin EZ-Kit Lite Boards to CMOS Image Sensors (Rev 1, 11 2006) Owner's Manual and User Guide

Engineer-to-Engineer Note EE-300

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Interfacing Blackfin® EZ-KIT Lite® Boards to CMOS Image Sensors Contributed by Bob Nakib Rev 1 – November 9, 2006

Introduction In addition to saving time and effort for the programmer, the configuration table presented in

This EE-Note describes the hardware and

this EE-Note is also intended to simplify the

software configurations that are needed to

debugging of an image sensor application by

interface various Micron® CMOS image sensors

providing a set of known, reliable hardware and

to Blackfin® processors. The CMOS image

software settings that will prevent or remove

sensors discussed in this document are used for a

errors originating from misconfigured devices in

variety of applications, ranging from security to

the system.

entertainment. The configuration settings given in this EE-Note were tested on EZ-KIT Lite® evaluation systems

Usage

for ADSP-BF533 Blackfin processors (ADDS-

Unpack the ZIP file[1] associated with this

BF533-EZLITE, Rev 1.2), ADSP-BF537

application note. Open the Sensor Table.htm

Blackfin processors (ADDS-BF537-EZLITE,

file using any HTML-enabled browser (i.e.,

Rev 1.3), and ADSP-BF561 Blackfin processors

Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla

(ADDS-BF561-EZLITE, Rev 1.3). The code

Firefox, etc.). The initial screen shows a table

included with this document was verified using

with an X in each cell. Select the X in the cell

the Visual DSP++® 4.0 and 4.5 (Updated May

that corresponds to the EZ-KIT Lite and sensor

2006) tools suites for Blackfin processors.

combination of interest. The resulting page contains all the basic hardware and software configuration information, settings, and code

Objective

necessary to run an application in the context of When beginning the development of any imaging the selected platforms. The information in these application comprising an embedded processor pages can also be found in text files located in and a CMOS image sensor, it is important to the data folder of the compressed archive.

identify the correct hardware and software configurations for your system. The goal of this document is to accelerate and simplify the connection between Blackfin processors and various Micron CMOS image sensors by describing the hardware and software configurations needed to interface these devices.

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