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The Camera Link Interface

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The Camera Link standard has been devised to provide a generic 26-pin interface to a wide range of digital cameras and as such we can specify a standard interface at the top level of our design. Although the interface requires 26 pins, they are configured differentially, and so we can specify the basic interface functionally using only 11 pins. There is a clock pin, which we can define as camera_clk, and then four camera control lines defined as cc1 to cc4, respectively. Using the camera_ prefix, we can therefore name these as camera_cc1, camera_cc2, camera_cc3, and camera_cc4. There are two serial communication lines, serTFG (comms to frame grabber) and serTC (comms to camera), which we can name as camera_sertfg and camera_sertc, respectively. Finally, we have the four connection pins from the camera which will contain the data from the device and these are named camera_x0, camera_x1, camera_x2, and camera_x3. Clearly, the actual interface requires differential outputs, and so eventually an extra interface will be required to translate the simple form of interface defined here to the specific pins of the connector.

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