41.2 Embedded Characteristics

The CSI is compliant with the following standards:

  • MIPI Alliance Specification for Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2), Version 1.2
  • MIPI Alliance Specification for D-PHY, Version 1.2
D-PHY Characteristics:
  • Two-lane Receive MIPI D-PHY Compliant with Revision 1.1 Specification
  • Lane Operation Ranging from 80 Mbps to 1.5 Gbps in Forward Direction
  • Aggregate Throughput up to 3 Gbps with Two Data Lanes
  • Low-Power Escape Modes and Ultra-Low-Power State

CSI-2 Host Characteristics:

  • Dynamically Configurable Multi-Lane Merging
  • Long and Short Packet Decoding
  • Timing Accurate Signaling of Frame and Line Synchronization Packets
  • Frame Formats:
    • General frame or digital interlaced video with or without accurate sync timing
    • Data type (packet or frame level) and virtual channel interleaving
  • All Primary and Secondary Data Formats.
    • YUV, RGB, RAW (for details, refer to the section "Image Sensor Interface (ISC)")
    • Generic 8-bit long packet data types
    • User-defined byte-based data
  • Error Detection and Correction
    • PHY level
    • Packet level
    • Line level
    • Frame level
  • EMI Mitigation