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Custom Camera Design Services



Expert development of Ambarella-based solutions
for automotive, robotics and intelligent automation


From idea to mass production







New

GMSL2 CAMERA EVK



Camera Hardware Design

Rhonda creates innovative camera designs with the best camera processor (SoC) technologies, image sensor and other hardware components



Rhonda Software is a close Ambarella's design partner with many years of experience in the Imaging business, providing camera solutions based on A12S, A12W, A9SE, H2, H22, S2L, S3L, S5L, CV2, CV22


The Rhonda System on a Module (SoM) platform can accelerate your camera project or prototype. SoM is a PCB-level camera module with state-of-the-art Rhonda Image Quality and a pre-defined feature set


Rhonda is a one-stop shop for camera schematics and high-frequency HDI PCB layouts with interdisciplinary coordination with ME, optics and thermal design

The best Ambarella silicon in your product



Camera Software Development

Breathing life into bare metal


Highly customizable, continuously evolving Cross-platform middleware accelerates camera software development

Synchronized video capture and balanced image quality auto-correction on multi-sensor / multi-SoC cameras

Real-time video stitching for dual sensor cameras with back-to-back lens alignment


Deep learning neural network porting and acceleration to execute complex computer vision features on-camera

Rhonda's Video Cloud solution: 2-way camera connection, archived storage, event notifications, video transcoding & streaming

Android and iOS applications for camera setup, live video streaming and over-the-air firmware updates


Seeing Is Believing

A picture is worth a thousand words...What about a video?




Image Quality Tuning

Build an optical system most appropriate for Your application


Optical system design

Image sensor & lens selection for your product needs

Adequate equipment

Image Quality (IQ) Lab for thorough Optical system analysis

Skilled experts

IQ experts configure the Ambarella SoC IQ Pipeline to deliver the best Camera IQ possible

Baseline IQ tuning

Rhonda's 3A (AF, AE, AWB) algorithms, Noise reduction, Tone mapping, Color fidelity adjustment, Aberrations and shading compensation, Distortion correction, Image sharpening, Local contrast enhancement, and more


Manufacturing Control

Make Your camera factory process reliable and manageable


Manufacturing Quality Control

Automated testing with quantitative pass/fail criteria to find and filter out malfunctioning components at different assembly stages

Incoming Optical modules testing

Dust contamination checks, lens alignment verification, focus uniformity verification

Per-unit Factory IQ Calibration

Defective pixel correction, white balancing, lens shading compensation, etc.

Computer vision validation algorithms

Objective and consistent decision-making procedures unbiased by human-factor


How to Start Designing Your Camera with Rhonda

Select one of three platform strategies



Advantages

  • Board-level Camera System on a Module (SoM)
  • Out-of-the-box feature set
  • Stable HW design
  • Pre-calibrated IQ
  • Can be easily integrated with a customer's application processor over an extensible control protocol
  • Low-volume friendly

Next steps

  • Select a SoM model best-suited to your needs
  • Acquire SoM samples from one of our distribution partners (please submit a request via the contact form below)
  • Obtain integration support (if necessary)
  • Secure the required quantity of units and make a payment
  • Receive your package and enjoy


Advantages

  • Customized SoM Firmware to include additional functionality (custom protocols, new features, additional settings, etc.)
  • Re-designed SoM Hardware to fit your custom camera housing
  • Additional HW accessories (new image sensor & lens, sensor board flexible printed circuit (FPC) cables, new peripheral devices, etc.)
  • New SoM platform tailored to your requirements and needs
  • Applicable to low volumes as well

Next steps

  • Contact us to launch a short project for a Requirements, Architecture and Feasibility study
  • Start a SoM customization project based on the conditions defined in the previous step
  • Rhonda’s team will be in charge of software development for both features and interfaces
  • Rhonda’s team will be in charge of hardware modifications and design (if necessary)
  • Manufacturing is done with a recommended ODM using Rhonda processes & tools

Advantages

  • Unique camera HW: your design or Rhonda's EE services (schematics & layout development)
  • Optimal SoC & key HW component selection
  • New Software features & complex feature interaction scenario implementation
  • System Performance balancing is performed to incorporate Customers’ code stack
  • Full camera functionality on the same platform

Next steps

  • Contact us to launch a short project for a Requirements, Architecture, and Feasibility study
  • Start a new camera development project based on the conditions defined in the previous step
  • Define responsibilities in co-development scenarios
  • Get a dedicated optical system design and calibration
  • Receive recommendations on factory selection and manufacturing support as a deliverable


About Rhonda Software

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Our Partners

We have close relationships with the most famous names in the camera manufacturing world



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