THine’s ISP THP7312 is available in the Linux mainline kernel

The driver development finalisation and upstreaming were done under partnership with Ideas on Board, one of the Linux consulting service companies for camera and display systems.

Until now, there has been no production-ready driver for standalone ISPs in the mainline Linux kernel. It has always been a heavy burden for system design engineers to develop and integrate a Linux kernel driver for the ISP, because it requires deep architectural understanding of the ISP and the Linux kernel structure.

THine THP7312 is the first standalone ISP whose Linux driver is available in the mainline kernel. This now makes it easier to use THine’s standalone Image Signal Processor (ISP) with high performance image sensors in various SoC platforms to achieve high image quality.

The driver being upstream is beneficial not only for system design engineers but also to SoC platforms suppliers. MediaTek has integrated this driver into the Software Development Kit (SDK) for their Genio family of edge-computing platforms targeting AI and IoT.

Pumpkin Evaluation Kits (EVK) for MediaTek Genio with THine THEIA-CAM Kit are available from OLogic, Inc.