# Circuit Valley CHC5 - A modular USB, HDMI, and Ethernet camera system (Crowdfunding)

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Author: Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Published: 2026-09-02T07:25:10Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [CNX Software - Embedded Systems News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cnx-software-embedded-systems-news.md>)

Topics: [webcam](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webcam.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [USB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usb.md>), [hdmi](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hdmi.md>), [Ethernet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethernet.md>), [SOC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/soc.md>), [Embedded Systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embedded-systems.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [SDK](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdk.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [arm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/arm.md>), [buildroot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/buildroot.md>), [c-c-plus-plus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c-c-plus-plus.md>), [camera](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/camera.md>), [computer-vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/computer-vision.md>), [edge-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/edge-ai.md>), [embedded-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embedded-systems.md>), [ethernet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethernet.md>), [fpga](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fpga.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [hdmi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hdmi.md>), [kickstarter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kickstarter.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [poe](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/poe.md>), [sdk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdk.md>), [soc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/soc.md>), [usb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usb.md>), [video](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/video.md>), [xilinx-zynq](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/xilinx-zynq.md>)

## AI overview

CNX Software reports on Circuit Valley's CHC5, a modular camera system built around an AMD/Xilinx Zynq-7020 SoC FPGA. It supports interchangeable sensor and lens configurations, USB, HDMI, and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and image-processing and machine-vision workloads.

## Source excerpt

Circuit Valley's CHC5 is a modular camera system based on a Core board powered by an AMD/Xilinx Zynq-7020 SoC FPGA, a range of interface boards with USB, HDMI, or Ethernet (PoE), various sensor boards, and a metal enclosure. The solution can be customized with different lens objectives and different sensors with MIPI D-PHY, LVDS, Sub-LVDS, Low Voltage LVDS, or SLVS interfaces. The Zynq-7020's Cortex-A9 cores can handle complex tasks, while the FPGA fabric takes care of high-speed calculation and correction on the image, and can also be leveraged for AI/machine-vision-specific algorithms or complex low-latency hardware acceleration. CHC5 specifications: Core board SoC - Xilinx AMD Zynq-7020 SoC FPGA CPU - Dual-core Arm Cortex-A9 processor FPGA - 85K logic cells, 4.9Mb Block RAM, 220 DSP slices System Memory - 1GB DDR3 Storage 1 Gbit flash memory MicroSD card slot ISP - Full-fledged ISP implemented on FPGA fabric Multiple interface boards with 10Gbps [...] The post Circuit Valley CHC5 - A modular USB, HDMI, and Ethernet camera system (Crowdfunding) appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News.