Basler CXP-12 Interface Card 4C

Four-Port CoaXPress CXP-12 frame grabber

  • Four CoaXPress CXP-12 connections: 5,000 MB/s camera bandwidth
  • PCIe 3.0 (Gen 3) x8 bus: 6,700 MB/s bus bandwidth
  • Feature-rich set of 20 digital I/O lines
  • Extensive camera control functions
  • Memento Event Logging Tool

$ 923.00

SPECIFICATIONS

Interface standard(s) CoaXPress 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1 and 2.0
Connectors Four micro-BNC 75 Ohms (also known as HD-BNC™) CXP-12
Status LEDs One CoaXPress Host connection status LED per connection
Number of cameras Area-scan cameras:
One 1- or 2- or 4-connection camera
Four 1-connection cameras
Line-scan cameras:
One 1- or 2- or 4-connection camera
Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate 50 Gbit/s (5,000 MB/s)
Supported CXP down-connection speeds 1.25 GT/s (CXP-1), 2.5 GT/s (CXP-2), 3.125 GT/s (CXP-3), 5 GT/s (CXP-5), 6.25 GT/s (CXP-6), 10.0 GT/s (CXP-10), and 12.5 GT/s (CXP-12)
Supported CXP up-connection speeds
  • Low-speed 20.83… Mbps (CXP-1 to CXP-6)
  • Low-speed 41.66… Mbps (CXP-10, CXP-12)
Number of CXP data streams (per camera) 1 data stream per camera
Maximum CXP stream packet size 16,384 bytes
PoCXP (Power over CoaXPress)
  • PoCXP Safe Power:
    • 17 W of 24V DC regulated power per CoaXPress connector
    • PoCXP Device detection and automatic power-on
    • Overload and short-circuit protections
  • On-board 12V to 24V DC/DC converter
  • A +12V power source must be connected to the AUXILIARY POWER INPUT connector using a 6-pin PEG cable
Camera types
  • Area-scan cameras:
    • Grayscale and color (YCbCr, YUV, RGB and Bayer CFA)
    • Single-tap (1X-1Y) progressive-scan
  • Line-scan cameras and contact imaging sensors:
    • Grayscale and color RGB
Camera pixel formats supported Raw, Monochrome, Bayer, RGB, and RGBA (PFNC names):

  • Raw
  • Mono8, Mono10, Mono12, Mono14, Mono16
  • BayerXX8, BayerXX10, BayerXX12, BayerXX14, BayerXX16 where XX = GR, RG, GB, or BG
  • RGB8, RGB10, RGB12, RGB14, RGB16
  • RGBA8, RGBA10, RGBA12, RGBA14, RGBA16
  • YCbCr601_422_8, YCbCr601_422_10
  • YCbCr709_422_8, YCbCr709_422_10
  • YUV422_8, YUV422_10
On-board processing
On-board memory 4 GB
Image data stream processing
  • Unpacking of 10-/12-/14-bit to 16-bit with selectable justification to LSb or MSb
  • Optional swap of R and B components
  • Little endian conversion
Input LUT (Lookup Table) Only available for monochrome cameras:

  • 8 to 8 bits
  • 10 to 8, 10 or 16 bits
  • 12 to 8, 12 or 16 bits
Bayer CFA to RGB decoder
  • ‘1-camera’ firmware variant:
    • 3×3 linear interpolation method
    • 3×3 median-based interpolation method
CustomLogic firmware variants
  • 1-camera, customlogic firmware variant
    • one 1- or 2- or 4-connection area-scan camera
    • 91% DSP, 82% FF, 74% LUT and 56% BRAM resources of the Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale XCKU035 FPGA available for user programming
    • 2GB capacity, 12GB/s bandwidth, shared on-board DRAM memory
Data stream statistics
  • Measurement of:
    • Frame rate (Area-scan only)
    • Line rate
    • Data rate
  • Configurable averaging interval
Event signaling and counting
  • The application software can be notified of the occurrence of various events:
    • Standard event: the EVENT_NEW_BUFFER event notifies the application of newly filled buffers
    • A large set of custom events
  • Custom events sources:
    • I/O Toolbox events
    • Camera and Illumination control events
    • CoaXPress data stream events
    • CoaXPress host interface events
  • Each custom event is associated with a 32-bit counter that counts the number of occurrences
  • The last three 32-bit context data words of the event context data can be configured with event-specific context data:
    • Event-specific data
    • State of all System I/O lines sampled at the event occurrence time
    • Value of any event counter
C2C-Link
Description
  • Accurate synchronization of the trigger and the start-of-exposure of multiple grabber-controlled area-scan cameras.
  • Accurate synchronization of the start-of-cycle, start-of-scan and end-of-scan of multiple grabber-controlled line-scan cameras.
Specification
  • C2C-Link synchronizes cameras connected to:
    • the same card
    • to different cards in the same PC (requires an accessory cable such as the “3303 C2C-Link Ribbon Cable” or a custom-made C2C-Link cable)
    • to different cards in different PCs (requires one “1636 InterPC C2C-Link Adapter” for each PC and one RJ 45 CAT 5 STP straight LAN cable for each adapter but the last one)
  • Maximum distance:
    • 60 cm inside a PC
    • 1200 m cumulated adapter to adapter cable length
  • Maximum trigger rate:
    • 2.5 MHz for configurations using a single PC, or up to 10 PCs and 100 m total C2C-Link cable length
    • 200 kHz for configurations up to 32 PCs and 1200m total C2C-Link cable length
  • Trigger propagation delay from master to slave devices:
    • Less than 10 ns for cameras on the same card or on different cards in the same PC
    • Less than 265 ns for cameras on different cards in different PCs (3 PCs and 40m total C2C-Link cable length)

 

MECHANICAL

Format Standard profile, half length, 8-lane PCI Express card
Cooling method Air cooling, fan-cooled heatsink
Mounting For insertion in a standard height, 8-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot
Connectors
  • ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’ on bracket:
    • 4x Micro-BNC female connectors
    • CoaXPress host interface
  • ‘EXTERNAL I/O’ on bracket:
    • 26-pin 3-row high-density female sub-D connector
    • I/O lines and power output
  • ‘INTERNAL I/O 1’ and ‘INTERNAL I/O 2’ on PCB:
    • 2x 26-pin 2-row 0.1″ pitch pin header with shrouding
    • I/O lines and power output
  • ‘I/O EXTENSION’ on PCB:
    • 26-pin 2-row 0.05″ pitch pin header with shrouding
    • I/O extension lines and power output
  • ‘AUXILIARY POWER INPUT’ on module:
    • 6-pin PEG power socket
    • 12 VDC power input for PoCXP camera(s) and I/O power
  • ‘C2C-LINK’ on module:
    • 6-pin 2-row 0.1-in header
    • Card to card link
LED indicators
  • ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’ on bracket:
    • Bi-color red/green LEDs
    • CoaXPress Host connector indicator
  • ‘FPGA STATUS LAMP’ on PCB:
    • Bi-color red/green LED
    • FPGA status indicator
  • ‘BOARD STATUS LAMP’ on PCB:
    • Bi-color red/green LED
    • Board status indicator
Switches ‘RECOVERY’ on card PCB:

  • 3-pin 1-row 0.1″ header
  • Firmware emergency recovery
Dimensions L 167.65 mm x H 111.15 mm L 6.6 in x H 4.38 in
Weight 196 g, 6.91 oz

 

ENVIRONMENTAL
Operating ambient air temperature 0 to +55 °C / +32 to +131 °F
Operating ambient air humidity 10 to 90% RH non-condensing
Storage ambient air temperature -20 to +70 °C/ -4 to +158 °F
Storage ambient air humidity 10% to 90% RH non-condensing
Certifications
Electromagnetic – EMC standards
  • European Council EMC Directive 2004/108/EC
  • United States FCC rule 47 CFR 15
EMC – Emission
  • EN 55022:2010 Class B
  • FCC 47 Part 15 Class B
EMC – Immunity
  • EN 55024:2010 Class B
  • EN 61000-4-3
  • EN 61000-4-4
  • EN 61000-4-6
KC Certification Korean Radio Waves Act, Article 58-2, Clause 3
Flammability PCB compliant with UL 94 V-0
RoHS European Union Directive 2015/863 (ROHS3)
REACH European Union Regulation 1907/2006
WEEE Must be disposed of separately from normal household waste and must be recycled according to local regulations

HOST BUS

Standard PCI Express 3.0
Link width
  • 8 lanes
  • 1 lane, 2 lanes or 4 lanes with reduced performance
Link speed
  • 8.0 GT/s (PCIe 3.0)
  • 5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0) with reduced performance
Maximum payload size 512 bytes
DMA 32- and 64-bit
Peak delivery bandwidth 7,800 MB/s
Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth 6,700 MB/s (Host PC motherboard dependent)
Power consumption Typ. 17.1 W (7.3 W @ +3.3V,9.8 W @ +12V), excluding camera and I/O power output

CONTROLS

Area-scan Camera Control
Trigger
  • Precise control of asynchronous reset cameras, with exposure control.
  • Support of camera exposure/readout overlap.
  • Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay and trigger decimation.
Strobe
  • Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.
  • Support of early and late strobe pulses.
Line-scan camera control
Scan/page trigger
  • Precise control of start-of-scan and end-of-scan triggers.
  • Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay.
  • Support of infinite acquisition, without missing line, for web inspection applications.
Line trigger
  • Support for quadrature motion encoders, with programmable noise filters, selection of acquisition direction and backward motion compensation.
  • Rate Converter tool for fine control of the pixel aspect ratio: Rate Conversion Ratio in the range 0.001 to 1000 with an accuracy better than 0.1%.
  • Rate Divider tool
Line strobe
  • Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.

GPIO

General Purpose Inputs and Outputs
Number of lines 20 I/O lines:

  • 4 differential inputs (DIN)
  • 4 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs (TTLIO)
  • 8 isolated inputs (IIN)
  • 4 isolated outputs (IOUT)

NOTE: The number of I/O lines can be extended using I/O modules attached to the I/O EXTENSION connector.
Usage
  • Any I/O input lines can be used by any LIN tool of the I/O Toolbox
  • Selected pairs of I/O input lines can be used by any QDC tool of the I/O toolbox to decode A/B signals of a motion encoder
  • The LIN and QDC tools outputs can be further processed by the other tools (DIV, MDV, DEL) of the I/O toolbox to generate any of the following “trigger” events:
    • The “cycle trigger” of the Camera and Illumination controller
    • The “cycle sequence trigger” of the Camera and Illumination controller
    • The “start-of-scan trigger” of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)
    • The “end-of-scan trigger” of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)
Electrical specifications
  • DIN: High-speed differential inputs compatible with ANSI/EIA/TIA-422/485 differential line drivers and complementary TTL drivers
  • TTLIO: High-speed 5V-compliant TTL inputs or LVTTL outputs, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers or LVTTL, TTL, 3V CMOS receivers
  • IIN: Isolated current-sense inputs with wide voltage input range up to 30V, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers, RS-422 differential line drivers, potential free contacts, solid-state relays and opto-couplers
  • IOUT: Isolated contact outputs compatible with 30V / 100mA loads
Filter control
  • Glitch removal filter available on all System I/O input lines
  • Configurable filter time constants:
    • for DIN and TTLIO lines: 50 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns, 1 µs
    • for IIN lines: 500 ns, 1 µs, 2 µs, 5 µs, 10 µs
Polarity control Yes
Power output Non-isolated, +12V, 1A, with electronic fuse protection
I/O Toolbox tools The I/O Toolbox is a configurable interconnection of tools that generates events (usually triggers) from input lines. The composition of the toolset is product- and firmware-dependent.

  • Line Input tool (LIN): Edge detector delivering events on rising or falling edges of any selected input line.
  • Quadrature Decoder tool (QDC): A composite tool including:
    • A quadrature edge detector delivering events on selected transitions of selected pairs of input lines.
    • An optional backward motion compensator for clean line-scan image acquisition when the motion is unstable.
    • A 32-bit up/down counter for delivering a position value.
  • Divider tool (DIV): to generate an event every nth input events from any I/O toolbox event source.
  • Multiplier/divider tool (MDV): to generate m events every d input events from any I/O toolbox event source.
  • Delay tool (DEL): to delay up to 16 events from one or two I/O toolbox event sources, by a programmable time or number of motion encoder ticks (any QDC events).
  • User Actions Scheduler tool (UAS): to delegate the execution of User Actions at a scheduled time or encoder position. Possible user actions include setting low/high/toggle any bit of the User Output Register or generation of any User Events.
I/O Toolbox composition Determined by the selected firmware variant:

  • 1-camera: 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 DEL, 1 UAS
  • 1-camera, line-scan: 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 DEL, 1 UAS
  • 4-camera: 8 LIN, 4 QDC, 4 DIV, 4 MDV, 4 DEL, 1 UAS

SOFTWARE

 

Host PC Operating System
  • Microsoft Windows 10, 8.1, 7 for x86 (32-bit) and x86-64 (64-bit) processor architectures
  • Linux for x86 (32-bit), x86-64 (64-bit) and aarch64 (64-bit) processor architectures
  • macOS for x86-64 (64-bit) processor architecture

Refer to release notes for details
APIs EGrabber class, with C++ and .NET APIs:

  • .NET assembly designed to be used with development environments compatible with .NET frameworks version 4.0 or higher

GenICam GenTL producer libraries compatible with C/C++ compilers:

  • x86 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86 applications
  • x86_64 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86_64 applications
  • aarch64 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of aarch64 applications

DOWNLOADS

COAXLINK QUAD CXP-12 DATASHEET
egrabber Offline Documentation (167 MB executable ZIP file installs to your start menu)
Updated Software for Wndows, Linux and macOS (link to Euresys Manufacturer Web Site)

 

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