Interfacing the Sparkfun CMOS sensor

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blooper

Joined Apr 1, 2011
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Hi, I'm workong on the interface between an Atmega16 and I would like some help with the same.

Details:
The sensor I'm using is a sparkfun CMOS camera (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/637). Also, I will not be able to get another camera as this one has been already bought and I don't have enough budget.

I am running the camera with an ~14Mhz crystal connected to the clock generator and All I am interested in doing is taking a 176x144 pixel image into the microcontroller and outputting it to matlab using serial.

For everyone who says it's not possible, it has been done before.
http://www.robozes.com/inaki/dproject/report.pdf

The problem: after supplying the required signalling, I am unable to get a output clock on the PCLK pin (which seems to stay inherently high) and HSYNC and VSYNC are always low.

I just hope someone is able to help.

Thanks!
 
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