Connecting the camera directly to an array of VPUs

yomuevans

HPE Edgeline Movidius Myriad X VPU Module https://buy.hpe.com/us/en/digital-government/hpe-edgeline-vpu-module-with-myriad-x/p/1011157158 has 4 myriad X vpus in a M.2 factor, i wanted to do something similar to yours and Horned Sungem http://www.hornedsungem.org/ . take frames of videos from a camera, pass it through a csi interface directly to the 4 vpus, and the result to a raspberry pi (ideally for me a Jetson Nano module) using the compute hat, but i have little to no idea of where to start, i wanted to be my project for final year EEE project, kindly help? my @yomue_ on twitter i just posted my previous EEE project

Brandon

Hi yomuevans !

Thanks for sharing that. We actually hadn't seen it yet. Very interesting.

So yes this is the classic use of the Myriad X where the host brings in the image data somehow, and then transfers it over USB to the Myriad X (sometimes using a PCIE-USB converter in-between so that the host can interface over PCIE, but the Myriad X is still getting the data over USB).

So the following board we just ordered is probably of interest to you:

So this is the Myriad X, heatsink, power, and FFC connections to up to 3 cameras. It supports 2x grayscale Ov9282 sensors, which are ideal for depth sensing, and 1x IMX378, which is a 12MP 4K/60Hz high-res color sensor. (Note that the fan is probably not necessary... we just made a prototype with it in case. Our testing shows that a heatsink w/out fan is plenty.)

For reference, FFC are these little ribbon cables like what the Raspberry Pi camera uses:

And will reach out on Twitter... just saw the notifications.

And also please sign up for our CrowdSupply. We are doing a campaign soon so that we can do a larger initial batch order, to help keep the sales price as low as we reasonably can.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/luxonis/depthai

Thanks,
Brandon