Sony IMX327 Linux Driver

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Sony IMX327 Features

The IMX327LQR-C is a diagonal 6.46 mm (Type 1/2.8) CMOS active pixel type solid-state image sensor with a square pixel array and 2.13 M effective pixels. This chip operates with analog 2.9 V, digital 1.2 V, and interface 1.8 V triple power supply, and has low power consumption. High sensitivity, low dark current and no smear are achieved through the adoption of R, G and B primary color mosaic filters. This chip features an electronic shutter with variable charge-integration time. (Applications: Surveillance cameras, FA cameras, Industrial cameras)

Supported Platforms

• NVIDIA Jetson Nano
• Google coral (for more information about this driver check our [Coral] documentation )

Features Included in the Driver

Nano	Feature Details SDK Support 1920x1080@30fps 4 Lanes, RAW12, RGGB L4T 32.5 / Jetpack 4.5

Enabling the Driver

In order to use this driver, you have to patch and compile the kernel source using JetPack:

• Follow the instructions in (Downloading sources) to get the kernel source code.

• Once you have the source code, apply the following the patches in order to add the changes required for the IMX327 camera at kernel and dtb level.

4.5_imx327.patch

• Follow the instructions in (Build Kernel) for building the kernel, and then flash the image.

Make sure to enable IMX327 driver support:

make menuconfig

-> Device Drivers                                                                                                                        
  -> Multimedia support                                                                                           
    -> NVIDIA overlay Encoders, decoders, sensors and other helper chips 
       -> <M> IMX327 camera sensor support

And to select the runtime device tree blob by editing the $JETSON_L4T/rootfs/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf to add the "FDT" line:

TIMEOUT 30
DEFAULT primary

MENU TITLE L4T boot options

LABEL primary
      MENU LABEL primary kernel
      LINUX /boot/Image
      INITRD /boot/initrd
      FDT /boot/tegra210-p3448-0000-p3449-0000-a02.dtb
      APPEND ${cbootargs} quiet

Using the Driver

GStreamer Examples

Capture and Display

• 1920x1080@30fps RGGB12

gst-launch-1.0 nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=1920, height=1080, format=NV12, framerate=30/1' ! nvvidconv ! xvimagesink

Video Encoding

CAPS="video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1"

gst-launch-1.0 nvarguscamerasrc sensor-id=0 num-buffers=500 ! "video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1" ! omxh264enc ! mpegtsmux ! filesink location=test.ts

The sensor will capture in the 1920x1080@30fps mode and the pipeline will encode the video and save it into test.ts file.

Performance

ARM Load

Tegrastats display the following output when capturing with the sensor driver used in the Jetson Nano platform:

RAM 1167/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [25%@1132,16%@1132,9%@1132,12%@1132]
RAM 1168/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [28%@921,12%@921,9%@921,13%@921]
RAM 1167/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [23%@921,12%@921,13%@921,10%@921]
RAM 1167/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [28%@921,8%@921,12%@921,12%@921]
RAM 1169/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [26%@1479,9%@1479,16%@1479,9%@1479]
RAM 1167/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [28%@921,13%@921,9%@921,16%@921]
RAM 1168/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [23%@1036,13%@1036,14%@1036,7%@1036]
RAM 1167/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [25%@921,12%@921,9%@921,11%@921]
RAM 1168/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [25%@921,13%@921,16%@921,12%@921]
RAM 1169/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [27%@921,12%@921,8%@921,13%@921]
RAM 1168/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [24%@921,8%@921,13%@921,10%@921]
RAM 1169/3963MB (lfb 522x4MB) CPU [29%@921,13%@921,15%@921,6%@921]

Framerate

Using the next pipeline we were able to measure the framerate for single capture with perf element:

gst-launch-1.0 nvarguscamerasrc sensor-id=0 ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' ! perf  ! fakesink

GST-PERF-INFO --> timestamp: 0:44:34.324884537; bps: 0,000; mean_bps: 0,000; fps: 0,000; mean_fps: 0,000
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:35.354956530; bps: 24192,000; mean_bps: 8064,000; fps: 30,095; mean_fps: 30,095
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:36.355520992; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 66528,000; fps: 29,983; mean_fps: 30,039
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:37.356864989; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 101606,400; fps: 29,960; mean_fps: 30,013
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:38.357433006; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 124992,000; fps: 29,983; mean_fps: 30,005
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:39.358908010; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 141696,000; fps: 29,956; mean_fps: 29,995
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:40.359357860; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 154224,000; fps: 29,987; mean_fps: 29,994
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:41.360617558; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 163968,000; fps: 29,962; mean_fps: 29,989
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:42.361400607; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 171763,200; fps: 29,977; mean_fps: 29,988
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:43.362674329; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 178141,091; fps: 29,962; mean_fps: 29,985
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:44.363320878; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 183456,000; fps: 29,981; mean_fps: 29,984
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:45.364541434; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 187953,231; fps: 29,963; mean_fps: 29,983
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:46.365041950; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 191808,000; fps: 29,985; mean_fps: 29,983
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:47.366186373; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 195148,800; fps: 29,966; mean_fps: 29,981
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:48.366852845; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 198072,000; fps: 29,980; mean_fps: 29,981
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:49.368081920; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 200651,294; fps: 29,963; mean_fps: 29,980
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:50.368731947; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 202944,000; fps: 29,981; mean_fps: 29,980
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:51.370037391; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 204995,368; fps: 29,961; mean_fps: 29,979
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:52.370821395; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 206841,600; fps: 29,976; mean_fps: 29,979
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:53.371545430; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 208512,000; fps: 29,978; mean_fps: 29,979
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:54.372675500; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 210030,545; fps: 29,966; mean_fps: 29,978
GST-PERF-INFO -->  timestamp: 0:44:55.373703465; bps: 241920,000; mean_bps: 211417,043; fps: 29,969; mean_fps: 29,978

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