Allied Vision Alvium CSI driver for Jetpack 6.2

Compatibility

SoMs + Carrier Boards

• Jetson AGX Orin DevKit
• Jetson Orin Nano DevKit
• Jetson Orin NX + forecr DSBOARD-ORNX carrier

Cameras

• All Alvium C cameras with Firmware 14 or newer

Installation

1. Download the debian package from the releases section to our target board
2. Install the packages by running:

   sudo apt install ./avt-nvidia-csi2-driver_<version>.deb

3. Configure the device tree
   1. Start the jetson-io tool

      sudo /opt/nvidia/jetson-io/jetson-io.py

   2. Select the CSI connector configuration
      • For AGX Orin: "Jetson AGX CSI Connector"
      • For Orin Nano / NX: "Jetson 24pin CSI Connector"
   3. Select "Configure for compatible hardware"
   4. Select the appropriate "* Alvium C Dual *" configuration
   5. Select "Save pin changes"
   6. Select "Save and reboot to reconfigure pins"
4. After the board has rebooted the camera can be accessed with V4L2 and Vimba X

Building

1. Clone this repository including all submodules
2. Download the Jetson Linux driver package and cross compiler from: Jetson Linux Downloads
3. Extract the driver package:

       tar -xf jetson_linux_r36*.tbz2

4. Extract the kernel headers from the driver package:

       cd Linux_for_Tegra/kernel/
       tar -xf kernel_headers.tbz2

5. Extract the cross compiler
6. Build the modules:

       export ARCH=arm64
       export CROSS_COMPILE=<path to cross compiler>/bin/aarch64-buildroot-linux-gnu-
       export KERNEL_SRC=Linux_for_Tegra/kernel/linux-headers-*-linux_x86_64/3rdparty/canonical/linux-jammy/kernel-source/
       make all 

7. Install the driver modules

       export INSTALL_MOD_PATH=<path to install directory>
       make install

Known limitations

• When using external triggers the NVIDIA v4l2 control override_capture_timeout_ms has to be set a suitable timeout value or -1 for a infinite timeout. Otherwise incomplete buffers with the error flag set might be returned due to a timeout while waiting for the image.