Embedded Vision solutions - NXP Kinetis camera development kit
Imaging solution for low resolution video applications
Avnet Silica, expert in vision solutions, provides a low-cost and flexible tool solution for NXP Kinetis K82F Cortex®-M4 microcontrollers. The NXP Kinetis K82F low current consumption MCU has a FlexIO interface, which is a highly configurable module, providing a wide range of functionality and protocols. The FlexIO can simulate of protocols like UART, SPI, but most of all it is capable of integrating a camera interface.
The TD next TD7740 miniature camera module is particularly suited to connect to the Kinetis K82F MCU. TD next modules are high-quality camera modules with a long lifetime. A demo is included for the Kinetis Design Studio development tool to stream the video data from the camera to a host computer or terminal via USB. The solution is a full development platform to simplify development and to create your own application. The camera driver is included as well as an example application to capture and display video. This is a low resolution implementation. If your application requires a higher resolution video, NXP provides other devices like the i.MX6 product family with its VPU/GPU accelerators.
Key features
- Flexible and low-cost video solution for low resolution DVP applications
- Video USB interfacing
- Real-time low resolution video streaming with QQVGA resolution (160x120) @ 25 frames per second (fps)
- Still image capturing
- Low current consumption
Applications
- Low resolution USB video streaming
- Monitoring systems
- Automated inspection
- Part sorting and identification
- Camera PIR sensors
- Security & Surveillance
- Home Automation
- Access control systems
- Logistics/retail analytics
NXP Freedom K82F (FRDM-K82F) board
The NXP Freedom K82F (FRDM-K82F) is a low-cost development platform for Kinetis K82, K81, and K80 MCUs. The NXP Freedom K82F can capture still images or stream low resolution video in QQVGA (160x120).
Additional peripherals enable rapid prototyping, including a six-axis digital accelerometer and magnetometer to create full eCompass capabilities, a tri-colored LED and two user push-buttons for direct interaction, 2x32Mb QuadSPI external flash, FlexIO camera header, touch pads and headers for use with Bluetooth® and 2.4 GHz radio add-on modules. OpenSDAv2.1, the NXP open source hardware embedded serial and debug adapter running an open source bootloader, offers options for serial communication, flash programming, and run-control debugging.
