AXIOM Beta/AXIOM Beta Software

1 Getting Started

1.1 Connectivity

1. Use a micro-USB cable to connect the MicroZed development board (USB UART) to a computer. The MicroZed board is the backmost, red PCB. (There is another micro-USB socket on the Power Board, but that is the JTAG Interface.)
2. Connect the ethernet port on the MicroZed to an ethernet port on your computer. You might have to use an ethernet adapter on newer, smaller machines which come without a native ethernet port.
3. Connect the AC adapter to the Power Board. (The power cord plugs into an adapter that connects to the Power Board; to power the camera off at a later point, you need not disconnect the adapter from the board but can just unplug the cord from the adapter.)

By default, the Beta requests an IP address via DHCP.

The camera is accessed via the Serial Console (USB UART).
Drivers for bridging USB to UART can be downloaded from Silicon Labs' website. We have successfully used Minicom, Screen or Putty to access UART.

Once the Beta is connected and powered on, it is listed as a USB device in the /dev directory of your file system, e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0 (Linux) or /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART (Mac OS X).
You can use e.g. ls -al /dev/ | grep -i usb to list all USB devices connected to your machine.

To connect to the camera, use the command:

screen file_path 115200

e.g. one of the following:

screen /dev/ttyttyUSB0 115200
screen /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART 115200

You might have to run the command with superuser rights, i.e.:

sudo screen /dev/ttyttyUSB0 115200
sudo screen /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART 115200

On successful connection, you will be prompted to enter user credentials needed for logging into the camera.
If your terminal remains blank, try pressing enter.

The default credentials are:

user: root
password: beta

To disconnect from the camera again, use:

exit

The result will be a logout message followed by a new login prompt. To suspend or quit your screen session (and return to your regular terminal window) use one of the following commands:

CTRL+a CTRL+z
CTRL+a CTRL+\

Then you can set the IP manually if DHCP is not an option:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.9/24 up # use proper IP/prefix

It is required to use keypair authentication for SSH access to the Beta via Ethernet:

• Add your public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

Notice: We had problems that screen could not copy/paste the entire key at once - had to split it copy/pasting two halves in the end.

1.2 Setup

The init script is automatically run at startup:

./kick.sh

This will initialize all systems and train the sensor communication.

1.3 Capture an image

write the image into file: snap.raw16 plus display it with imagemagick:

ssh root@*BETA-IP* "./cmv_snap3 -e 10ms" | tee snap.raw16 | display -size 4096x3072 -depth 16 gray:-

same for 12bit (more efficient, same data):

ssh root@*BETA-IP* "./cmv_snap3 -2 -e 10ms" | tee snap.raw12 | display -size 4096x3072 -depth 12 gray:-

1.4 Overlay Images

Remove overlay

./mimg -a -o -P 0

1.5 Addititonal information

Display voltages and current flow:

./pac1720_info.sh

Output:

ZED_5V        	5.0781 V [2080] 	+29.0625 mV [2e8]   +968.75 mA
BETA_5V       	5.1172 V [20c0] 	+26.6016 mV [2a9]   +886.72 mA
HDN           	3.2422 V [14c0] 	 -0.0391 mV [fff]     -1.30 mA
PCIE_N_V      	3.2422 V [14c0] 	 -0.0391 mV [fff]     -1.30 mA
HDS           	3.2422 V [14c0] 	 +0.0000 mV [000]     +0.00 mA
PCIE_S_V      	3.2422 V [14c0] 	 -0.0391 mV [fff]     -1.30 mA
RFW_V         	3.2812 V [1500] 	 +0.2734 mV [007]     +9.11 mA
IOW_V         	3.2422 V [14c0] 	 +0.0000 mV [000]     +0.00 mA
RFE_V         	3.2812 V [1500] 	 +0.2344 mV [006]     +7.81 mA
IOE_V         	3.2812 V [1500] 	 +0.0781 mV [002]     +2.60 mA
VCCO_35       	2.5000 V [1000] 	 +0.6641 mV [011]    +22.14 mA
VCCO_13       	2.4609 V [ fc0] 	 +1.2500 mV [020]    +41.67 mA
PCIE_IO       	2.4609 V [ fc0] 	 -0.0391 mV [fff]     -1.30 mA
VCCO_34       	2.4609 V [ fc0] 	 +0.8203 mV [015]    +27.34 mA
W_VW          	1.9922 V [ cc0] 	 -0.0781 mV [ffe]     -2.60 mA
N_VW          	3.1641 V [1440] 	 +0.0000 mV [000]     +0.00 mA
N_VN          	1.8750 V [ c00] 	+15.4297 mV [18b]   +514.32 mA
N_VE          	3.1641 V [1440] 	 +0.0000 mV [000]     +0.00 mA
E_VE          	1.9922 V [ cc0] 	 -0.0391 mV [fff]     -1.30 mA
S_VE          	1.9531 V [ c80] 	 +0.0000 mV [000]     +0.00 mA
S_VS          	2.9297 V [12c0] 	 +0.3906 mV [00a]    +13.02 mA
S_VW          	1.9922 V [ cc0] 	 -0.1562 mV [ffc]     -5.21 mA

Read Temperature on Zynq:

./zynq_info.sh 

Output:

ZYNQ Temp     	49.9545 °C

2 Tools

2.1 cmv_reg

Get and Set CMV12000 image sensor registers (CMV12000 sports 128x16 Bit registers).

Details are in the sensor datasheet: https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/beta-hardware/tree/master/Datasheets

Examples:

Read register 115 (which contains the analog gain settings):

cmv_reg 115

Return value:

0x00

Means we are currently operating at analog gain x1 = unity gain

Set register 115 to gain x2:

cmv_reg 115 1

2.2 set_gain.sh

Set gain and related settings (ADC range and offsets).

ssh root@cameraip "./set_gain.sh 1"
ssh root@cameraip "./set_gain.sh 2"
ssh root@cameraip "./set_gain.sh 3/3"

2.3 cmv_snap3

Capture and store image snapshots and sequences.

Example:

ssh root@cameraip "./cmv_snap3 -B0x08000000 -x -N8 -L1024 -2 -e 5ms" >/tmp/test.seq12

-B setzt die buffer base und ist im augenblick erforderlich
0x08000000 bedeutet 128MB, ich hab das linux auf 128MB zusammengepfercht, damit bleibt 1024MB-128MB fuer sequenzen
bitte beachten, es gibt kein sicherheitsnetz und keine plausibilitaetschecks, d.h. wenn du addressen erreichst oder spezifizierst wo das linux laeuft, dann ist vermutlich ein reset notwendig
-x bedeutet das erste frame zu skippen (optional), da mir aufgefallen ist, dass das erste frame nach einer pause anders aussieht
-N setzt die anzahl der frames die zu capturen sind (bitte wieder beachten, wenn du ueber 0x3FFFFFFF kommst, dann ueberschreibst du den linux bereich)
-L setzt die anzahl der zeilen (nur gerade werte, max 3072)
-2 stellt auf 12bit output (einziges format das ich getestet habe :)
-e setzt die exposure wie gehabt

To split one seq12 file into multiple individual files:

split -b <size> <file.seq12> <prefix>

<size> the amount of bytes of one image (4096 x number-of-lines x 12bit / 8bit)
<prefix> name
optionally add --additional-suffix=.raw12 for the proper extension
-d or --numeric-suffixes for numeric numbering of the split files

Example for 1024 lines (input file: test.seq12):

split -b 6291456 -d test.seq12 output --additional-suffix=.raw12

Example for 1080 lines (input file: test.seq12):

split -b 6635520 -d test.seq12 output --additional-suffix=.raw12

Use imagemagick to convert raw12 file into a color preview image:

cat test.raw12 | convert \( -size 4096x3072 -depth 12 gray:- \) \( -clone 0 -crop -1-1 \) \( -clone 0 -crop -1+0 \) \( -clone 0 -crop +0-1 \) -sample 2048x1536 \( -clone 2,3 -average \) -delete 2,3 -swap 0,1 +swap -combine test_color.png

Capture directly to DNG, without saving the raw12, in the camera:

./cmv_snap3 -2 -b -r -e 10ms | raw2dng snap.DNG

3 General Info

Stop HDMI live stream:

fil_reg 15 0

Start HDMI live stream:

fil_reg 15 0x01000100

3.1 Operating System

At this moment we were able to reuse an Arch Linux image for the Zedboard on the Microzed. To do so, some software such as the FSBL and uboot were added. More information can be found here: http://stefan.konink.de/contrib/apertus/ I will commit myself on the production of a screencast of the entire bootstrap proces from the Xilinx software to booting the MicroZed.

I would suggest running Arch Linux on the AXIOM Beta for development purposes. If we need to shrink it down that will be quite trivial. Obviously we can take the embedded approach from there, as long as we don't fall in the trap of libc implementations with broken threading.

3.2 Userspace

Arch Linux comes with systemd, which has one advantage that the boot process is incredible fast. Standard tools such as sshd and dhcpcd have been preinstalled. We may need other tools such as ftp, webserver, etc.

• ftp; I would suggest vsftpd here
• webserver; I am able to modify cherokee with custom C code to directly talk to specific camera sections. Cherokee already powers the WiFi module of the GoPro.

One idea to store camera relevant parameters inside the camera and provide access from most programming languages is to use a database like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB