those image sensors for webcam applications are highly integrated, and can be connected to PC via USB, eg OV7725 vga Sony image sensor interface is using sub-LVDS, sort of bridge circuitry is required to convert to MIPI CSI protocol sensor bridge: Lattice various solutions, eg MachXO3 ,$25 Lattice FPGA Mach project IMX219 running on 4 lanes with MachXO3 Xilinx Virtex(very high performance), Zynq(64 bit controller + FPGA) Xilinx appnote Epson S2D13P04 ( details to be added ) btw, HiSense 3516 series are image sensor SoC which encodes videos in H.264 , H.265 formats, not really intended for raw image or videos System level: Cypress EZ-USB CX3, with USB3 interface video intro Denebola development kit from E-Con : eCon e-CAM130_CUTK1 connecting to a Tegra K1 board via 4-lane MIPI CSI-2 interface: Texas Instruments DaVinci imaging processor with Lattice sensor bridge: Raspberry Pi ...