e-con Systems announces 5MP Full HD MIPI camera support for Wandboard

ST. LOUIS, USA & CHENNAI, INDIA: e-con Systems Inc., a leading embedded design services company specializing in development of advanced camera solutions announces the release of 5MP Full HD MIPI Camera Board, e-CAM51IMX6 for Wandboard - an low power complete computer based on Freescale i.MX6 Development Board.

The Wandboard is an open source project built around the ARM Cortex A9 powered Freescale i.MX6 CPU. This e-CAM51IMX6 is interfaced directly to the CSI-2 MIPI interface on the Wandboard. The e-CAM51IMX6 includes e-CAM57_MI5640_MOD, a 5 MP Autofocus 2-lane MIPI CSI-2 camera module with 70mm flexible PCB length.

The e-CAM51IMX6 board comes with full schematics and Linux driver support with source code. e-con Systems shall be announcing the support for Android soon.

e-CAM51IMX6 can stream Full HD 1080p@30fps and supports HD 720p@60fps. The i.MX6 processor has support for dual camera interfaces and has the ability to record video at 1080p and 720p resolutions in various industry standard video encoding formats. The e-CAM51IMX6 can be plugged directly to the MIPI CSI-2 camera header of Wandboard - Freescale i.MX6 development through the 33 pin flex cable.

The Wandboard is an ultra-low power complete computer with high performance multimedia capabilities based on the Freescale i.MX6 family of processors. The i.MX6 CPU family is based on ARM Cortex A-9 core and is available with single, dual and quad core versions with each core clocking at a maximum of 1.2GHz.

The i.MX6 CPU family has a dedicated multi-format video codec engine and e-con's camera solution has been integrated very well with this engine. With e-CAM51IMX6, Wandboard can record 1080p video at 30 fps and stream 1080p@30fps over Wi-Fi or Wired Ethernet.

The e-CAM51IMX6 camera solution is well integrated with the i.MX6 processor and its internal multi-format video codec engine.

Customers can take advantage of this powerful combination of e-CAM51IMX6 with Wandboard as a ready-to-use reference platform for developing their video streaming/recording/processing applications on the powerful i.MX6 CPU. E-con has also demonstrated the simultaneous streaming/recording/displaying 720p or 1080p video on the same platform.