1-Didn't know that.I thought I read somewhere Spartan 6 supports PCIe and because you mentioned the FPGA for the USB3......Forget it :D

2-Well, about the product brief and NDAs, the same happens to me with Aptina sensors (no access to datasheets although I got an account.Asking for NDA), and because of that I thought in this situation it was not different.Sorry.

2-Well, about the product brief and NDAs, the same happens to me with Aptina sensors (no access to datasheets although I got an account.Asking for NDA), and because of that I thought in this situation it was not different.Sorry.

Yes, that is a problem. We do have datasheet for Aptina (it was Micron) 5MPix sensor (as well as for earlier 1.3-2-3MPix ones) that we got years ago without signing any NDA but that's all. Even if we'll ever sign NDA with Aptina we need written waiver that 2 pieces of information should be out of the NDA scope:

1 - device pinout that we need to include in our circuit diagrams that we provide;
2 - register addresses/descriptions that are used in the driver code.

It was much better to deal with Kodak - probably they are proud of their sensors and are not ashamed of releasing the full datasheets without any NDA. Same with Axis, Texas Instruments, Xilinx and many other component manufacturers that we use in Elphel products. Unfortunately Kodak does not have small fast high resolution CMOS sensors.

Andrey

Is it the same situation with other Image sensor manufacturers? Like Omnivision, Sony, Toshiba, etc....