hello sir, I have ARM LPC2478 processor and want to interface a ccd camera with it. My purpose is to take live feed from this camera and create a camouflage effect on a spy robot i am making. For this purpose i am using a 3 mega pixel ccd camera with resolution 600x480 and a TFT with the same resolution. what i need to know is how m i going to interface this camera with LPC2478( i wish to use the i2c protocol! is it feasible?) Waiting for your suggestions
Some how I'd imagine your unspecified CCD camera only configures via I2C (horizontal, vertical, etc), and the data goes over a much high bandwidth connection.
The resolution is also going to generate a lot of data.
A 3 megapixel camera with 600x480 resolution?
If monochrome, then it would have 288k pixels. If RGB then it would have 864k pixels. So not near 3MP.
Anyway - 864k pixels and 8-bit color resolution means 864kByte for each frame or 6.9Mbit. An 1Mbit/s interface would need 7 seconds to transfer one image assuming almost no overhead.