• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 62, Issue 8, 0811003 (2025)
Qian Wan1,2,*, Jiangtao Xu1,2, Quanmin Chen1,2, Zijian Liu1,2, and Yijie Zhang1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronic Technology, Tianjin 300072, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP241876 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Qian Wan, Jiangtao Xu, Quanmin Chen, Zijian Liu, Yijie Zhang. Design of Image-Acquisition System for I-ToF Image Sensor Based on FPGA[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(8): 0811003 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    As conventional image-acquisition systems cannot easily fulfill the demand for rapid transmission of significant data amounts from indirect time-of-flight (I-ToF) image sensors, a high-speed image-acquisition system based on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and multilane camera serial interface 2 (CSI-2) is proposed. Based on the CSI-2 protocol, the system adopts a digital physical layer with 12 independent lanes, which can significantly improve the acquisition rate of sensor data. Simultaneously, the system utilizes the short-packet information of the CSI-2 protocol to denote different phase-shift images output by the I-ToF sensor, thus enabling the host computer to reconstruct depth images accurately. In the FPGA design, the low level protocol layer module is designed based on a parallel architecture to process CSI-2 data packets at high speed. Additionally, a parallel first-in first-out (FIFO) structure is adopted to eliminate delays between different data lanes. Experimental results show that the system can support the complete acquisition of I-ToF image sensor data with a 2016 pixel×1096 pixel resolution and 30 frame/s frame rate. In the high-speed burst mode of the CSI-2, the instantaneous bandwidth of the FPGA data acquisition can reach a maximum of 9.600 Gb/s. The depth image reconstructed by the host computer enables distance measurement. Therefore, the image-acquisition system based on FPGA and multilane CSI-2 enables high-speed I-ToF image-sensor data transmission.