Camera module with lens to interface with PicoZed

Does anyone have a recommendation for a camera module (including lens) that can be made to quickly interface with PicoZed? I need the PicoZed to retrieve the video data and place it into a UDP packet for decoding at a remote location. Other than the desire for a sub $100 camera/lens cost and an industrial temperature range, I really just want camera video to stream to the PicoZed in some common format that the PicoZed can insert into outgoing UDP.

0 dougw over 1 year ago

Is the vision kit too expensive or not adequate?

PicoZed Embedded Vision Kit
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0 dej1 over 1 year ago in reply to dougw

I appreciate the quick response and have been looking at the materials you referenced. I would really need to go from the PYTHON 1300C LVDS outputs to the Zynq and from there to h.264 compressed video sent via UDP to a peer that could display the video using Open CV. I aplogize for not mentioning that the peer would be using Open CV. I planned on designing a carrier card not much larger than the Pico Zed and having enough electronics for the power supply and any media conversion not done by the Pico Zed.
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0 flyingbean over 1 year ago

It will depend on the resolution spec of the camera for your FPGA project. If you use Petalinux on PicoZed, you could consider to use a $100 camera/lens on USB port, which can give you a lot of flexibility to switch different camera models without updating FPGA project/HW.
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0 dej1 over 1 year ago in reply to flyingbean

My previous reply didn't show up on screen. In case it got lost and is not just being processed, I'll express my main thought again: I'm not sure how to pull USB video data so that it can be sent via Ethernet to an Open CV peer. I'm also running bare metal software on the Zynq and don't know if I'll have the luxury of migrating to an OS like Petalinux. I'll keep the idea in mind and appreciate your feedback.
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0 shabaz over 1 year ago

It's a waste of that processor if you're running bare metal. In any case, if you don't wish to use USB, you could use any cheap camera, for instance this one is really not that hard to interface, since it has 0.1" header pins: https://thepihut.com/products/ov9655-camera-board and is simple enough that it could be interfaced with a microcontroller, let alone a Zynq board. There will be dozens of examples online and simple microcontroller example code for that sort of part.

It might be more difficult to find an industrial temperature range product for sub-$100, but that's the sort of camera that will be cheap and easy to interface, the resolution is configurable to meet your processing capability, and you could directly dump the raw data into UDP packets.
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0 dej1 over 1 year ago in reply to shabaz

I'm running bare metal for other reasons not listed, but the recommendation with the software example is very informative. I'm in a rush and thank you for taking time to respond.
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