Connect Arducam HQ Camera to ROCK5B

#1

I’m have an Arducam HQ Camera that I’d like to connect to my ROCK5B. The problem is they of course use different cables. I designed an adapter to convert the pinout of the ROCK5B to the Arducam pinout. The Arducam HQ camera uses the same pinout as the RPi Zero (W) camera connector.

I would appreciate it if someone would take a look at my design to see if I made any mistakes.
https://oshwlab.com/zipdox/arducam-hq-camera-to-rock5b-adapter

If anyone wonders why I didn’t design an FPC cable instead, I did. But after a look at the PCBWAY flex PCB pricing I changed my mind.

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#2

FYI I used these resources to design it:

#4

this could work with evrey pi camera

#5

I still have to find a jumper cable though.
This one seems like it would work: https://eu.mouser.com/c/wire-cable/ffc-fpc-jumper-cables/?number%20of%20conductors=31%20Conductor&pitch=0.3%20mm&instock=y

#6

yeah it seems like it would work, i think the best would be to risk it and order the components and the pcb and asamle it try and correct any mistakes (if there are any)

#7

Board

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Camera

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Do you have plans to make it available assembled?
What about the driver and 3A?

#8

I guess I could order a large batch of boards and sell them, but shipping is expensive from the Netherlands for consumers. Maybe even more expensive than people ordering a batch pre-assembled directly from JLCPCB.

I have no idea about the software yet.

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#9

That’s what i thought about the shipping expenses.

#10

I wouldn’t mind if someone experienced in high frequency signalling took a look at my design. I haven’t done any sort of trace length matching.

#11

it can be a problem with pcie 3, 4 and 5 but i dont think csi is fast enguth

#12

Just got my Rock 5B on hand, any updates on this project? I have an ArduCam 16MP AutoFocus Camera (which i am not sure whether it is 2-lane or 4-lane, but it should be using the same connector) but i will be interested in having an adapter or a cable to allow the 5B to work with these cameras (especially to get MIPI CSI in 4-lanes)

#13

Someone with experience in high speed PCB design told me they’d do the CSI traces for me so I’m waiting for him.

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#14

all pi cameras are 2 lanee as far as i know

#15

oh cool that means a high quality design

#16

Well yeah, but we are having ArduCam camera module which from the beginning of the post, his ArduCam HQ Camera seems claiming 4-lanes CSI.

#17

is that even possible on a pi 4 because i always thought 2 lanes are for the csi connector and the other 2 lanes are unused

#18

For the Pi 4, i guess they only have two lanes physically exposed to the CSI connector.

However, the Pi CM4 does supports 4-lanes CSI, just took a quick look on the Rock 5B’s schematic, it seems like we have a 30 pin (*it should be 31-pin 0.3mm pitch) CSI connector that expose all 4-lanes with two clock available (AN,AP,CAM0-CLK) and (BN,BP,CAM1-CLK).

So i am curious, does that means our rock 5B can support either 1x 4-lanes CSI Camera or 2x 2-lanes CSI Camera ? Would that means a Dual 4K Camera setup is possible ?

#19

i knew that about the cm4 and it would be amazing to have 2x4k cameras for 3d or twin survailence cameras

#20

does that means our rock 5B can support either 1x 4-lanes CSI Camera or 2x 2-lanes CSI Camera ? Would that means a Dual 4K Camera setup is possible ?

Yes, two 2-lanes camera is possible.

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#21

You may want to check this one:

https://dl.radxa.com/accessories/camera-4k/radxa_camera_4k_Revision_0.8_g29f7fed.pdf