Canon Ixy 60 (Powershot SD450)
I’ve been playing with some Canon Ixy 60s which I picked up for 5USD in the junk bins of Akihabara. The camera uses a 5MP CCD sensor. I’m interested in understanding the protocol used to communicate with this sensor better. This post documents my notes so far.
I could just about get the thing to power up while disassembled by jaming the battery door sensor closed and pressing the power button:
I then taped everything down, so I could probe around. It’s still annoying that it powers off every 30s or so:
I assigned pin numbers to the CCD pins as follows:
I then removed the CCD from the FPCB, hopefully I didn’t damage the FPCB in the process. Interestingly the camera still powers up. If you short the pins in the bottom left corner you even get something on the screen.
Notes
I saved scope traces for all the pins below (clearly a bunch are ground, but hey).
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