Month: December 2009

From DealExtreme, I got these tiny iPhone camera modules (sku.16945) and was hoping to get the specs, but no luck. So I thought, why not sacrifice one.

The heat gun melted off the lens in no time. Scratching off the last bits of plastic dirt reveals, as the rumours suggested:

• It’s a SOC2020 or MT9D112 sensor (Aptina), respectively SpecTek WXMK15A in a special package
• The sensor is protected by a glass layer
• The bond wires are connected to a ceramic carrier
• The ceramic carrier is directly soldered onto the flex

Unfortunately, the sensor pinout is still a secret, and I still don’t have an iPhone myself to probe. Perhaps it’s time for some good guessing?

The Sony P990 camera is a Aptina SOC-2010 or MT9D111.

 

Opening this beast, reveals some more details as shown in the pictures below. Also, we find out more about the sensor:

• It’s seems to be identical with the SpecTek part #WXMK15L
• It’s bonded directly on the flex cable without protection. The bond wires can be damaged very easily when trying to buzz through the connections
• The autofocus is a piezo spiral, driven by high voltage which is generated on the camera module by a DC/DC converter

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The pinout

Pin No.	Signal	Pin No.	Signal
1	GND	30	GND
2	D1	29	D0
3	D3	28	D2
4	D5	27	D4
5	D7	26	D8
6	GND	25	GND
7	RESET	24	PCLK
8	SCL	23	GND
9	SDA	22	VSYNC
10	SDA	21	HSYNC
11	VDD2.8	20	?
12	GPIO	19	GND
13	VAUTO	18	MCLK
14	GND	17	GND
15	VDDIO2.8	16	VDD1.8