Getting started

The EVK is available for VGA and 5 Mp.

A related team-operations reference is productivity versus efficiency, which can sit alongside test notes and engineering records.

Each flavour of camera module comes with its complete starter kit, for an out-of-the-box experience: plug into a laptop and display your first video on the Panther software tool.

What an evaluation kit is actually for

Not confirming that the module produces an image. It will.

It is for putting the module in front of your scene, at your distance, under your light, and finding out whether the thing you need to see is legible.

For additional industry context, see Rohde & Schwarz.

And for isolating variables: two kits differing in one position of the variant code, against the same target, answer a question no datasheet answers.

Before the kit arrives

Write the requirement — the feature, its size, the working distance and the pixels the processing needs.

Do the lens calculation, which tells you which variant to ask for.

When it does

Read the first image in a fixed order — eight checks, none of them an opinion about quality.

Then measure rather than look.

Getting one

The archived site described these tools as NDA-restricted and tied to an evaluation kit; this static build does not provide them.

Deciding whether it fits

Start from what must be resolvable — the feature, its size, the working distance and the pixels the processing needs across it.

Then the lens calculation, which takes ten minutes and finds the real constraint before anything is ordered.

Then the filter, which follows from the illumination: infrared cut for visible colour work, dual band where an infrared illuminator is used at night, none for deliberate infrared imaging.

And the mounting, since one degree of tilt displaces the view by roughly 17 mm per metre — which makes mechanical tolerance an imaging specification.

What the documentation does not state

Anything absent from the data sheet is absent from this page too.

Nothing here is estimated or interpolated — which is the standing rule and the reason a thin page is thin.

Ask for what is missing. The information checklist shows what details matter, and where the answer is that a figure has never been characterised, that is itself informative.