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Configuration of the camera

Camera status

This register allows to determine the current status of the camera. The most

important flag is the Idle flag.

If the Idle flag is set the camera does not capture any images and the camera

does not send any images (but images might be present in the image FIFO).

The ExSyncArmed flag indicates that the camera is set up for external triggering.

Even if the camera is waiting for an external trigger event the Idle flag might get

set.

Other bits in this register might be set or toggled: just ignore these bits.

Note

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• Excessive polling of this register may slow down the

operation of the camera. Therefore the time between two

polls of the status register should not be less than 5 mil-

liseconds. If the time between two read accesses is lower

than 5 milliseconds the response will be delayed.

• Depending on shutter and isochronous settings the sta-

tus flags might be set for a very short time and thus will

not be recognized by your application.

0xF1000100 CAMERA_STATUS Presence_Inq [0] Indicates presence of this fea-

ture (read only)

--- [1..23] Reserved

ID [24..31] Implementation ID = 0x01

0xF1000104 --- [0..14] Reserved

ExSyncArmed [15] External trigger enabled

--- [16..27] Reserved

ISO [28] Isochronous transmission

--- [29..30] Reserved

Idle [31] Camera idle

Table 107: Advanced register: Camera status