VEYE CS Camera on Firfly Boards

How to use VEYE and CS series cameras on Firefly's RK35XX board (Ubuntu)

1 Overview

VEYE series and CS series cameras are the video streaming mode MIPI cameras we designed. This article takes Firefly's ROC-RK3566-PC board as an example to introduce how to connect VEYE and CS series cameras to RK3566/RK3568/RK3588 system.

1.1 Camera Module List

Series	Model	Status
VEYE Series	VEYE-MIPI-IMX327S	Done
VEYE Series	VEYE-MIPI-IMX462	Done
VEYE Series	VEYE-MIPI-IMX385	Done

2 Hardware Setup

VEYE series and CS series cameras are provided with Raspberry Pi compatible 15Pin FFC connector. An ADP-Tfirefly adapter board is required to adapt to the ROC-RK3566-PC board.

2.1 Connection of camera and ADP-Tfirefly

The two are connected using 1.0 mm pitch*15P FFC cable with opposite direction. The cable must be inserted with the silver contacts facing outside.

2.2 Connection of ADP-Tfirefly and Firefly Board

The two are connected using 0.5 mm pitch*30P FFC cable with same direction. The cable must be inserted with the silver contacts facing inside.

2.3 Overall connection

TODO

3 Introduction to github repositories

https://github.com/veyeimaging/rk356x_firefly

includes：

• driver source code
• i2c toolkits
• application demo

In addition, a compiled linux kernel installation package is provided in the releases.

9 References

• ROC-RK3566-PC Manual

https://wiki.t-firefly.com/en/ROC-RK3566-PC/

• Firefly Linux User Guide

https://wiki.t-firefly.com/en/Firefly-Linux-Guide/index.html

10 Document History

• 2022-10-22

Release 1st version.