[Elphel-support] Global Shutter

[Sebastian Pichelhofer]

Current Elphel 353 camera only has the rolling shutter option, there
is Elphel 363 as well that uses a high resolution, large scale Kodak
CCD but these sensors are rather expensive (~3000$) and only deliver a
rather low framerate (3-5fps if I remember correctly). Also if I
remember correctly Elphel does not have them in stock and requires a
batch of at least 10 orders or so before it will start production...

Next generation Elphel 373 which will be released late next year (wild
guess) will feature a wider range of sensors.
Like Kodak CCDs in 2/3", 1" and 4/3" optical designs.

Funding development of a new Sensor Front End now would be an
interesting option, the PCB hosting the sensor is a rather small and
not too dense board (http://www3.elphel.com/wiki/10338) but I guess it
depends very much on the new type of sensor how complex the new one
will be. And remember that a new sensor frontend will require some
software changes as well but since everything is open and available it
is very well possible.
Maybe Andrey can help estimate cost of such a project.

Regards Sebastian

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 01:43, Abe Bachrach <abachrac at mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I was very excited to find the Elphel camera since it looked like exactly
> what I was looking for in terms of a camera integrated with an FPGA, however
> I was disappointed to see that the only sensor available uses a rolling
> shutter.
> I am interested in using the FPGA to do visual odometry which requires a
> global shutter.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrMHaO6NpE
> Does anyone know of a camera that would provide us a user programmable FPGA
> with a Global shutter?
> Alternatively, if we could hire someone to design a sensor board for the
> elphel system, we would be very interested.
> thanks,
> -=Abe
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