CoaxLink Quad CXP-12 DF

Four-Port CoaXPress CXP-12 frame grabber

with Data Forwarding

  • 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

SPECIFICATIONS

CAMERA/VIDEO INPUTS

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 (TBC)
    • Four 1-connection cameras (TBC)

Line-scan cameras:

    • One 1- or 2- or 4-connection camera (TBC)
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
  • 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
  • Raw

ONBOARD 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)
  • Monochrome 8-bit to 8-bit transformation
  • Monochrome 10-bit to 8-, 10- or 16-bit transformations
  • Monochrome 12-bit to 8-, 12- or 16-bit transformations
Bayer CFA to RGB decoder ‘1-camera’ firmware variant:

  • 3×3 linear interpolation method
  • 3×3 median-based interpolation method
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

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

‘DA’, ‘DB’, ‘DC’, ‘DD’ on bracket:

    • 4x Micro BNC female connectors
    • CoaXpress data forwarding interface

‘INTERNAL I/O 2’ on PCB:

    • 26-pin 2-row 0.1″ pitch pin header with shrouding
    • I/O 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

‘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 PCB:

  • 3-pin 1-row 0.1″ header or 2-way DIP switch
  • Firmware emergency recovery
Dimensions PCB L X H: 167.65 mm x 111.15 mm, 6.6 in x 4.38 in
Weight TBD g, TBD oz (3624)

ENVIRONMENTAL

Operating ambient air temperature 0 to +55 °C / +32 to +131 °F
Operating ambient air humidity 10% to 90% RH non-condensing (TBC)
Storage ambient air temperature -20 to +70 °C/ -4 to +158 °F (TBC)
Storage ambient air humidity 10% to 90% RH non-condensing (TBC)

CERTIFICATIONS

Electromagnetic – EMC standards
  • European Council EMC Directive 2014/30/EU
  • United States FCC rule 47 CFR 15
EMC – Emission
  • EN 55032:2015 / CISPR 32:2012 Class B
  • FCC 47 Part 15 Class B
EMC – Immunity
  • EN 55024:2010 / CISPR 24:2010
  • EN 55035:2017 / CISPR 35:2016
  • EN 61000-4-2:2009
  • EN 61000-4-3:2006
  • EN 61000-4-4:2004
  • EN 61000-4-6:2014
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

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. TBD W (TBD W @ +3.3V,TBD 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 & OUTPUTS (GPIO)

Number of lines 10 I/O lines:

  • 2 differential inputs (DIN)
  • 2 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs (TTLIO)
  • 4 isolated inputs (IIN)
  • 2 isolated outputs (IOUT)
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
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: 200 kHz isolated current-sense input with wide voltage input range up to 30V, compatible with totem-pole (push-pull) HTL drivers, 5V TTL/RS-422 differential line drivers, 5V CMOS drivers, potential free contacts, solid-state relays and opto-couplers
  • IOUT: Isolated contact outputs compatible with 30V / 100mA loads

NOTE: IIN and IOUT lines provide a functional isolation grade for the circuit technical protection. It does not provide an isolation that can protect a human being from electrical shock!
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):

  • 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.
  • Device Link Trigger tool (DLT): delivers an event on reception of a valid high-speed CoaXPress 2.0 connection trigger packet message from the remote device.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • The ‘Input Tools’ (LIN, QDC, DLT and UAS) can be further processed by the ‘Event Tools’ (DEL, DIV and MDV) 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)
I/O Toolbox composition TBD

SOFTWARE

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

ACCESSORIES

ACCESSORIES

Optional accessories

DOWNLOADS

COAXLINK QUAD CXP-12 DF DATASHEET
Euresys WHITE PAPER COAXPRESS 2.0

 

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