Greetings everyone, I’m fairly new to the PYNQ framework. I have a PYNQ-ZU board which I am trying to use with a MIPI CSI-2 camera to capture some frames and get familiar with it. I saw that the base overlay of the PYNQ-ZU already supports such interface, but it seems specified that the supported c…

Hi, The base overlay and the drivers are designed only for the Digilent pcam5C. If you want to use a different camera, you should configure the MIPI Rx subsystem to match your camera characteristics. You will also have to write the drivers to configure the camera to start streaming frames. For thi…

Hi, thank you for your reply. Just to be perfectly clear, this would involve designing a specific IP and overlay for my camera, correct? I cannot reuse in any way the current IP by configuring it somehow? Thank you.

Hi, No, you can reuse the base overlay design (not the bitstream). You would at least have to configure the MIPI CSI-2 Rx Subsystem within the MIPI hierarchy and generate the overlay again. This includes the pixel format, serial data lines, line rate and other camera characteristics. See image bel…

Great! Thank you very much for the useful input :slight_smile:

Let us know how you get on with this.

Greetings again, I installed Vivado 2020.2 and PetaLinux (same version) and now I’m trying to regenerate the base overlay. I did the following steps: cloning the PYNQ-ZU repo from Vivado, I ran the script build_ip.tcl inside Pynq-ZU/base, but this initially failed since the script was not finding…

It is Y2K22 bug [image] Error while rebuliding the BaseOverlay with PYNQ-Z2 Support Hi, This seems to be related to the Y2K22 bug. Did you apply the patch for this bug? https://support.xilinx.com/s/article/76960?language=en_US Mario

Hi, Any updates on your implementation of a custom camera IP? Thanks!

Capturing frames from CSI-2 camera in PYNQ-ZU

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marioruiz February 25, 2022, 2:05pm 8

It is Y2K22 bug

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