Camera Support for AM62 - How many camera's can be supported?

Feature Requests
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There is a need to support 6 FPD-GMSL camera’s in a system. How that could be supported in AM62 SOM based system.

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Hi @BVRM,

Thanks for writing to Toradex Community!

My team is already in touch with you but to close post with appropriate response and may help others as well, please find below response.

  • Simple answer is we do not have any off the self carrier board which can be used with 6 FPD-GMSL camera.

  • Now complex answer, it is certainly possible to do 6 FPD-GMSL camera to MIPI CSI using SerDes chip which can provide 6 virtual channel stream to MIPI CSI. This require custom board design and respective driver for Deserializer chip.

  • Verdin AM62 MIPI CSI do provide virtual channel so connecting should be possible but that said it heavily depends on exact use case of the 6 cameras.

  • If you want to do any real processing on all stream then we suggest to check Apalis iMX8QM.

  • Why not Verdin iMX8MM and Verdin iMX8MP as the MIPI CSI on them lacks virtual channel.

Let me know if you have any queries.
Best Regards
Ritesh Kumar

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Thanks Ritesh.

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this company offers GMSL to MIPI convertor boards. not sure if they provide arm linux support but quite possible they do.