I am looking for some guidance on hooking up and collecting raw data from CMOS image sensors. I just bought LabVIEW 7, and our company has an IMAQ PCI-1424, and a PCI DIO-32HS (6533) available for me to use.
The problems I am running into in trying to get a connection solution for evaluating these sensors is that the DIO-32HS is not fast enough to keep up with the 24MHz pixel clock, and the PCI-1424 seems to be designed to interface with cameras, which provide line and frame enable signals, rather than the sensor chips themselves.
For instance, I am currently trying to evaluate an STMicroelectronics CMOS sensor (VS6502) that is an 8 or 10-bit sensor that outputs 4 or 5-bit parallel pixel nibble data on 5 data lines. (It takes 2 clocks to output a pixel value). The pixel data stream contains encoding information that indicates what type of pixel row this is (blanking, active image row, etc.), row number, and some other control data. After power up, the chip outputs a continuous stream of image data.
Is there a way to configure the 1424 to work with a raw image sensor like this or is it only suitable for use in conjunction with cameras?
