Devices that support the Sony SLVS-EC sensor interface

[Spirit532]

I'm looking for an SoC or something similar that has 8x SLVS-EC input lanes, to talk to a Sony IMX426 sensor.

So far I've been able to find the following:

• Socionext - Milbeaut SC2000 - No reply
• Ambarella - CV5, CV52, etc - No reply
• HiSilicon - Hi3519AV100 and a couple others - No reply, but also told by a Chinese distributor that the entire series is discontinued due to TSMC embargo

Does anyone know of another secret chip that can talk this stupid high speed Sony-gatekept interface, or have contacts at one of the above three who could get me a few samples and documentation(under NDA is fine)?

I want to build a tiny, cheap high speed camera using the IMX426 - it outputs a respectable 800Mpix/s through 8x 2.4Gb/s SLVS-EC lanes, 800x600@1600fps and up to 7-8kfps at lower res(though I believe it's possible to go a LOT faster with "unsupported" ROI configs and a slightly faster clock), but most importantly it's very cheap(<$70 @ qty1, <$50 @ 1k), and comes in a much more sane, solderable LGA package, rather than PGA like most high speed sensors.
I would also very much prefer to avoid using an FPGA, mostly because I am too dumb to use them, and because SLVS-EC IP is high 4, low 5 figures. FPGAs with 8+ 2.5Gbit/s transceivers are also quite expensive.

[Andlier]

Sorry for jumping in a year+ later... did you find anything that fit the bill? I'm also interested in SLVS-EC capable SoC's or similar. I believe the nvidia jetson had hardware support early on, but difficult/non-supported in software.

[Spirit532]

Sorry for jumping in a year+ later... did you find anything that fit the bill? I'm also interested in SLVS-EC capable SoC's or similar. I believe the nvidia jetson had hardware support early on, but difficult/non-supported in software.

No, it's just FPGAs, unfortunately. Very little off the shelf stuff.