Introduction

This hardware guid helps for interfacing the Arducam OV9281 camera module. There are hardware USB2 or USB3 camera shield develop boards and mipi adapter board which can well mate this camera module without designing any customize board, they can be used for fast evaluation for this camera module.

Pin Definition

The camera module using Molex 545482671_SD or similar 22pin 0.5mm pitch FPC connector.

Pin No.	PIN NAME	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	NOTE
1	GND	Ground	Power ground
2	MDN0	Input	Pixel Data Lane0 Negative
3	MDP0	Input	Pixel Data Lane0 Positive
4	GND	Ground	Power ground
5	MDN1	Input	Pixel Data Lane1 Negative	M12 Version Only
6	MDP0	Input	Pixel Data Lane1 Positive	M12 Version Only
7	GND	Ground	Power ground
8	MCN	Input	Pixel Clock Output Form Sensor Negative
9	MCP	Input	Pixel Clock Output Form Sensor Positive
10	GND	Ground	Power ground
11	NC	NC	NC
12	NC	NC	NC
13	GND	Ground	Power ground
14	NC	Input	NC
15	NC	Input	NC
16	GND	Ground	Power ground
17	POWER_EN	Output	Power Enable
18	LED-EN	Input	Led Enable
19	GND	Ground	Power ground
20	SCL	Input	Two-Wire Serial Interface Clock
21	SDATA	Bi-directional	Two-Wire Serial Interface Data I/O
22	VCC_3.3V	POWER	3.3v Power supply

Mechanical Dimension

Lens Option

There are M12 mount lenses can be used together with is camera module. This is 1/4″ optical format sensor, so make sure the lens optical format is bigger than 1/4″ or else there will be dark corner. More lens options can be found from lens product page.