Supported carrier boards

List of supported boards

Carrier board

FMC connector

AMD Xilinx ZCU104 Zynq UltraScale+ Evaluation board

LPC

AMD Xilinx ZCU102 Zynq UltraScale+ Evaluation board

HPC0 and HPC1 (HPC1 limited to 2 cameras)

AMD Xilinx ZCU106 Zynq UltraScale+ Evaluation board

HPC0

TUL PYNQ-ZU Zynq UltraScale+ Development board

LPC

Digilent Genesys-ZU Zynq UltraScale+ Development board

LPC

Avnet UltraZed EV Carrier Card Zynq UltraScale+

HPC

Unlisted boards

If you need more information on whether the RPi Camera FMC is compatible with a carrier that is not listed above, please first check the compatibility list. If the carrier is not listed there, please contact Opsero, provide us with the pinout of your carrier and we’ll be happy to check compatibility and generate a Vivado constraints file for you.

Support for more than 4x cameras

By using more than one RPi Camera FMC it is possible to support more than 4x cameras on a single target platform. At the moment however, the only target platform that can support more than 4x cameras in this way is the AMD Xilinx ZCU102 Evaluation board, and it can only support a maximum of 6 cameras. This configuration is achieved as follows:

  • ZCU102 HPC0 connector mates with one RPi Camera FMC with 4x cameras

  • ZCU102 HPC1 connector mates with another RPi Camera FMC with 2x cameras

The limitation is due to the pinout of the HPC1 connector and there is currently no way around this.

Here are some other possibilities for supporting more than 4x cameras on a single target platform:

  • Digilent Genesys-ZU Zynq UltraScale+ Development board can support 6x cameras with the RPi Camera FMC because it has 2x MIPI CSI connectors.

  • TUL PYNQ-ZU Zynq UltraScale+ Development board can support 5x cameras with the RPi Camera FMC because it has 1x MIPI CSI connector.

Board specific notes

PYNQ-ZU and UltraZed EV carrier

Note that the PYNQ-ZU and UltraZed EV carrier boards have a fixed VADJ voltage that is set to 1.8VDC. The AMD Xilinx MIPI CSI Controller Subsystem IP documentation recommends an I/O voltage of 1.2VDC, and the Vivado tools prevent using the IP with IO standards that are not compatible with 1.2VDC. For this reason, all of the designs in this repository use 1.2VDC compatible IO standards, even though the I/O banks on the PYNQ-ZU and UltraZed EV carrier boards are powered at 1.8VDC. At the moment this is the only practical and functional workaround that we have found for these two target boards.