NetVision has developed various SerDes boards that can be used with video capture boards for MIPI signals and parallel signals.Our strength is that, by combining with SerDes boards which are developed with variety,it is easy to capture images of automotive-dedicated SerDes interfaces such as GMSL2 and GVIF2, just like an ordinary web camera.
SerDes interfaces such as GMSL2 and GVIF2 are required in a situation where high-quality video is desired to be transmitted over a long distance.For example, in terms of high image quality, YouTube etc. is about 5 to 20Mbps,whereas SVM-06 of NV is capable of capturing up to 3200Mbps which makes huge difference.
In conventional uncompressed video, object recognition and autonomous driving are required to be uncompressed which does not generate compression noise.It is also characterized by long distances because, with MIPI, the transmission range is about 30cm and about 2 to 3m in USB, whilst with GMSL2 it can be transmitted to as far as 15m level.These specialized interfaces, such as GMSL2 which have great advantages in automotive on-board applications, can be realized just like conventional web camera sold at ordinary electric appliance shops. That is the reason why Netvision boards can be selected by customers.
A square-shaped board has a function to acquire simple MIPI acquisition, to which a small rectangular SerDes board is connected just like an attachment to convert various interfaces to MIPI.In addition, to register settings for sensors and SerDes devices is available and stored in memory on the capture board. Settings are automatically executed just by turning on the power, and it is possible to start video output, which has also been well reputed by customers.
Supplementary explanation: In the field of ordinary developments, software designed by software engineers, called drivers, is required to have sensors and SerDes devices activated.Therefore, hardware guys ask software guys to adjust/update/reconfirm the driver and put the driver in place. Those procedures are time-consuming as there might be some caseswhere development of driver is outsourced to third party.
With SVM-06, as settings that drivers shall execute can be easily done by writing in textual format, any hardware guy can easily perform a cycle of validation, thereby accelerating developments.
