The majority of image sensors and application processors (AP) in the consumer market use the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI®) Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2) as a video signal interface. In some cases, the AP has to take multiple image data for various applications without increasing the physical interface signals.
Using the N Input to 1 Output MIPI CSI-2 Side-by-Side Aggregation reference design for CertusPro™-NX devices offers up to eight-channel aggregation. Multiple channel image data are concatenated horizontally line by line. CertusPro-NX supports soft MIPI interfaces, which can be used as MIPI TX or RX. The RX module can also be realized by a soft macro utilizing general DDR modules (D-PHY Soft IP).
Non-continuous clock mode - Used to write the data to RX FIFO and the continuous byte clock is used to read the data from RX FIFO.
Horizontal Pixel - All RX channels are expected to have almost same frame timing (20-pixel timing or less).
Lane Aligner Module - Enabled in case of Soft D-PHY in 2-lane and 4-lane configurations.