FPC Camera Board Interface - DVP Camera Module vs MIPI CSI Camera Module
CMOS image sensor interface divided into two catalogs, one is DVP (Digital Video Port) interface, the other is MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface). The main difference between DVP and MIPI is that DVP is parallel interface and the MIPI interface is high speed differential serial interface. MIPI interface provide higher data band width than DVP interface and support higher resolution and frame rate. Because the complexity and need additional hardware of MIPI interface, we only discuss DVP interface here.
FPC Printed Board & Interface - DVP / MIPI CSI
The sensor driver is a necessary pare for driving the sensor to work and connect to the processor. It's a software program can be controlled by the processor need to consider whether the processor driver can support, the data interface of the processor need. Because there are too many kinds of processor and the driver programed for each different one. You'd better choose the FPC camera interface meet your processor's requirements. IADIY major provides two popular interface DVP and MIPI CSI for our FPC cameras.
CMOS image sensor interface divided into two catalogs, one is DVP (Digital Video Port) interface, the other is MIPI Mobile Industry Processor Interface. The main difference between DVP and MIPI is that DVP is parallel interface and the MIPI interface is high speed differential serial interface. MIPI interface provide higher data band width than DVP interface and support higher resolution and frame rate. Because the complexity and need additional hardware of MIPI interface, we only discuss DVP interface here.
MIPI Alliance is an organization that develops interface specifications, the MIPI Camera Serial Interface was widely used in mobile industries. As this camera interface was high-performance, cost-effective. It was quickly expanded beyond the mobile industry. The MIPI camera module is separated with the DSP. It needs to program the firmware of DSP and using the grabber board to test in development and production.