The MIPI CSI-2 Alvium camera gives embedded system developers access to Sony’s high-performance image sensors. Alvium C combines a compact sugar cube format with large high-resolution sensors. It offers the highest possible resolution within such a small footprint (bare board or open housing).
High Image Quality For Embedded Systems
Benefit From A Wide Embedded Platform Support!
- Implement driver once, use with any Alvium CSI-2 camera
- Use our Vimba X APIs to control Alvium CSI-2 camera via GenICam for CSI-2 Access
- Advanced triggering and image optimization for CSI-2
- Wide embedded platform support; Nvidia Jetson, AMD Xilinx Zynq, NXP i.MX8M Plus
Built For Your Vision:
Alvium C Is The Perfect Camera For You If:
- You need excellent image quality for demanding embedded vision applications.
- You want to offload image processing tasks from your embedded board.
- You're looking for a scalable solution that makes it easy to exchange cameras as needed.
- You're designing low-power or battery-powered systems.
// Benefits At A Glance
Alvium 1800 C is a small, high-performance industrial camera. Benefit from high image quality and a wide range of sensors!
- State-of-the-art sensors: Get access to Sony’s high-performance image sensors popular in the machine vision industry!
- On-board ISP functionality: Use advanced image corrections and free up your embedded board for other processing tasks
- One driver fits all: Quickly integrate Alvium cameras and exchange models easily.
- Intelligent power management: Design low-power or even battery-powered systems.
- High bandwidth: Use the powerful MIPI CSI-2 interface with up to 4 lanes.
- Image reproduction quality: Get the best out of your lens-to-sensor combination by high-precision Alvium Sensor Alignment.
// Features
- Resolution: Up to 24.6 megapixels
- Sensor: CMOS global and rolling shutter sensors from Sony
- Frame rates: Up to 689 frames per second
- Housing options: Bare Board, Open Housing
- Lens mount options: C-Mount, CS-Mount, or S-Mount (M12)
- Chroma: Monochrome, Color
- Spectral sensitivity: from ultraviolet (UV) to shortwave infrafred (SWIR)
// Powered By ALVIUM Technology
ALVIUM® is a powerful, energy-efficient processor including an Image Signal Processor (ISP) and an Image Processing Library (IPL). It allows image corrections and pre-processing on the camera to optimize image quality and throughput for your application while offloading your CPUs on the embedded system.
// Easy Integration
Large choice of CSI-2 Adapter Boards
Allied Vision has developed adapter boards to connect Alvium CSI-2 cameras to various embedded boards. The adapter boards allow to convert the CSI-2 connector pinout and voltages on the embedded boards to the pinout and voltages of the Alvium CSI-2 camera. Depending on the design of the adapter, one or more cameras can be connected.
Available adapter boards are:
- Adapter Board for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier and TX2
- Adapter Board for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin/Xavier and TX2
- Adapter Board for NXP i.MX 8M Plus Eval Kit
- Adapter Board for AMD Xilinx ZCU106 Evaluation Kit
- Adapter Board for AMD Xilinx Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit
- Adapter Boards for Nitrogen6_MAX and Wandboard i.MX6
- Adapter Board for Toradex Ixora Carrier Board
- Adapter Board for Avnet MSC SM2S-MB-EP5
Together with the adapter boards Allied Vision is offering MIPI CSI-2 drivers supporting all current and future Alvium camera modules with MIPI CSI-2 interface, no matter which sensor the camera module uses.
The one common CSI-2 driver for NVIDIA’s Jetson SoMs is available on Github.
The latest version of the Allied Vision Software Development Kit Vimba X includes an Alvium CSI-2 driver for NXP i.MX8M Plus, Alvium CSI-2 driver for XILINX KRIA KV260 as well as a CSI-2 driver for XILINX ZYNQ ZCU106.
Further CSI-2 drivers for Alvium cameras on NXP-based ARM boards can be found on our website.
// The Right Accessories For Every Application
The Alvium 1800 C camera series can be equipped with several accessories. Click the button below to see compatible lenses, interface and I/O connections, and mounting adapters.
- FPC cables: Cables from 120 to 420 mm
- Interface connections: Adapter boards for various embedded boards
- Lenses: Tested C-Mount and S-Mount lenses
- Mounting adapters: Adapts between metric and imperial thread
// Perfectly Connected – Thanks To Powerful Software
To operate Alvium 1800 C cameras on your vision system, Allied Vision provides different access modes:
- GenICam for CSI-2 Access controls the camera by GenICam features, using the Alvium CSI-2 driver and CSI-2 transport layer (TL) directly. Open-source CSI-2 drivers are available on GitHub for different boards and systems on chips (SoC). Download sources from Github.
- For GenICam Access, you need the CSI-2 transport layer from Vimba X. You can use Vimba X in the same way as with a GigE or USB camera. Download Vimba X
- Direct Register Access (DRA) to control the cameras via registers for advanced user controls. Learn about Alvium control registers
- Video4Linux2 Access allows to control the cameras via:
- V4L2 API
- Allied Vision V4L2 Viewer
- Frameworks like GStreamer and OpenCV
- Open-source CSI-2 drivers are available on GitHub for different boards and systems on chip (SoCs). Download sources from GitHub
