
EZ-USB® CX3 Technical Reference Manual, Doc. No. 001-91492 Rev. *B
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Cypress EZ-USB CX3
1.1 Introduction
Cypress EZ-USB
®
CX3 is a USB 3.0 camera controller that enables developers to add USB 3.0 connectivity
to any image sensors conforming to the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Camera Serial Interface
Type 2 (CSI-2) standard. It serves as a MIPI CSI-2-to-USB Bridge.
EZ-USB CX3 is a variant of the EZ-USB FX3 device that features an integrated MIPI CSI-2 receiver mated to
the general programming interface II (GPIF II). CX3 provides the ability to add SuperSpeed USB connectivity
to image sensors supporting the MIPI CSI-2 interface.
CX3 conforms to the MIPI CSI-2 specification (version 1.01) and supports up to four data lanes with speed up
to 1 gigabits per second (Gbps) per lane for a total bandwidth of 2.4 Gbps.
CX3 is ideally suited for high-definition or high-speed image capturing applications and is capable of streaming
uncompressed video up to 1080p at 30 fps or 720p at 60 fps. CX3 supports a wide variety of image formats
including RAW8/10/12/14, YUV422, RGB888/666/565, and user-defined 8-bit.
Figure 1: EZ-USB® CX3 Device
Based on the proven EZ-USB FX3 platform, CX3 includes an ARM9
™ CPU and 512 KB SRAM that provide
200 MIPS of computational power. CX3 supports multiple peripheral interfaces such as I
2
C, SPI, and UART,
which can be programmed to support Autofocus, Pan, Tilt, and Zoom (PTZ), or other camera control functions.
CX3 uses the same application development tools as FX3. The FX3 Software Development Kit provides
support for CX3 along with application examples for accelerating time to market. CX3 complies with the USB
3.0 v1.0 specification and therefore is backward compatible with USB 2.0.
This technical reference manual (TRM) is a supplement to the
, and provides details about
the added CX3 MIPI CSI-2 receiver function block. Sections
of this TRM supplement describe
the MIPI CSI-2 receiver functional block, including the fixed-function GPIF II state machine. Section
provides the register details for the MIPI CSI-2 receiver interface. Detailed descriptions of the existing FX3