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CameraLink 2.0 Frame Grabber

  • Supports one Camera Link Base or Lite configuration camera

  • Directly compatible with hundreds of Camera Link cameras available on the market

  • Supports PoCL, Power over Camera Link

  • ECCO: Extended Camera Link cable length

  • PCIe x1 bus: 200 MB/s sustained delivery bandwidth

  • Feature-rich set of 10 digital IO lines

  • Memento Event Logging Tool

 

SPECIFICATIONS

CAMERA/VIDEO INPUTS

Interface standard(s) Camera Link 2.0
Connectors One Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) Miniature Camera Link (MiniCL)
ECCO – Extended Camera Link Cable Operation ECCO
Number of cameras One Base or Lite camera
Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate 2.04 Gbit/s (255 MB/s)
Camera Link configuration Base or Lite
Camera Link clock frequency From 20 MHz up to 85 MHz
PoCL (Power over Camera Link) One PoCL SafePower compliant controller with overload, over-voltage and short-circuit protection
Camera types Grayscale and color (RGB and Bayer) area- and line-scan cameras

ONBOARD PROCESSING

On-board memory 64 MB (32 MB for image data)
Image data stream processing
  • Unpacking of 10-/12-/14-bit to 16-bit with selectable justification to LSb or MSb
Input LUT (Lookup Table)
  • Monochrome: 8-bit, 10-bit or 12-bit per pixel, up to 500 MPixel/s
  • RGB: 3×8-bit per pixel, up to 125 MPixel/s
Bayer CFA to RGB decoder
  • Advanced interpolation method using average and median functions on a 3×3 kernel
  • Up to 125 MPixel/s

MECHANICAL

MECHANICAL

Format Low profile, half length, 1-lane PCI Express card
Cooling method Air-cooling, fanless
Mounting For insertion in a low-profile or standard height, 1-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot
Connectors ‘A’ on bracket:

  • 26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket
  • Camera Link Base connector

‘EXTERNAL I/O’ on standard bracket:

  • 25-pin 2-row female sub-D connector
  • I/O lines and power output

‘INTERNAL I/O’ on PCB:

  • 26-pin 2-row 0.1″ pitch pin header with shrouding
  • I/O lines and power output

‘POWER INPUT’ on module:

  • 4-pin MOLEX power socket
  • 12 VDC power input for PoCL camera and I/O power
Dimensions PCB L x H: 167.65 mm x 68.90 mm, 6.6 in x 2.71 in
Weight 98 g, 3.46 oz

ENVIRONMENTAL

Operating ambient air temperature 0 to +50 °C / +32 to +122 °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 2014/30/EU
  • United States FCC rule 47 CFR 15
EMC – Emission
  • EN 55022:2010 / CISPR 22:2008 Class B
  • 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 61000-4-5:2014
  • 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 1.0
Link width 1 lane
Link speed 2.5 GT/s (PCIe 1.0)
Maximum payload size 1024 bytes
DMA 32- and 64-bit
Peak delivery bandwidth 256 MB/s
Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth
  • Up to 200 MB/s for a PCI Express payload size of 256 bytes
  • Up to 180 MB/s for a PCI Express payload size of 128 bytes
Power consumption Max. 4.5 W; Typ. 3.8 W (0.34 A @ 3.3V;0.22 A @+12V)

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.
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)
  • 4 isolated inputs (IIN)
  • 4 isolated outputs (IOUT)
Usage
  • The input lines can be used by the acquisition channel as:
    • Camera frame trigger source (area-scan only)
    • Acquisition sequence trigger source (area-scan only)
    • Camera line trigger source (line-scan only)
    • Page acquisition trigger source (line-scan only)
    • Page acquisition end trigger source (line-scan only)
    • (Quadrature) motion encoder input (line-scan only)
  • The IOUT 1 output line can be used by the acquisition channel as:
    • Illumination strobe output
  • All the input lines can be used as general purpose inputs
  • All the output lines can be used as general purpose outputs
Electrical specifications
  • DIN: High-speed differential inputs compatible with ANSI/EIA/TIA-422/485 differential line drivers and complementary TTL drivers
  • 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

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 only on input lines used as trigger sources
  • Configurable with five time constants:
    • 100 ns, 500 ns, and 2.5 µs for trigger / page trigger / page end trigger sources
    • 40 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns, 1 µs, 5 µs, 10 µs for line trigger sources
Power output Non-isolated, +5V, 1A and +12V, 1A, with electronic fuse protection

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) and x86-64 (64-bit) processor architectures

Refer to release notes for details
APIs
  • MultiCam 32- and 64-bit binary libraries (Windows and Linux), for ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers

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