From:  Nizamov Shawkat <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  <[email protected]>
Date:  Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 11:50 AM
To:  <[email protected]>
Cc:  <[email protected]>
Subject:  [beagleboard] Re: Vision on DSP

> Hi, 
> 
> You will be able to get at most 150 MHz pixel rate with 8 bit, 75 MHz with
> 12-bit (it is actually 16 bit) - these are maximal ratings according to
> datasheet. So with mt9p031 it is possible to get the full frame rate - it
> means 5 megapixels @15 fps. But getting the frames and processing them are
> quite different stories. The maximal memory bandwidth you can achieve in
> software processing (carefully using neon, cache alignment and prefetch) is in
> the range of 500-700 mb/s, with non-optimized access it is going to drop down
> to 200-300 mb/s. I have no idea what is with DSP, but pretty much sure that it
> will not be faster. Besides, DSP does not come readily usable. If you are not
> specifically bound to using Beagleboard XM, I would suggest to use something
> else - e.g. there exist imx6 boards with serial and parallel camera ports.

The best solutions for camera processing is OMAP5 [1] because it has RPMSG
support in mainline so you can use the DSP for image processing. Supports
single or dual MIPI CSI-2 camera.

[1] http://www.svtronics.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=33
[2] http://www.ti.com/tool/omap5432-evm

Regards,
John
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Shavkat
> 
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