Grablink Duo

CameraLink 2.0 Frame Grabber

  • Supports two independent Camera Link Base configuration cameras or one Camera Link Base, Medium, Full, 72-bit or 80-bit camera

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

  • PoCL, Power over Camera Link

  • ECCO: Extended Camera Link cable length

  • PCIe Gen 2 x4 bus

  • Feature-rich set of 20 digital IO lines

  • Compatible with eGrabber driver and Memento Event Logging Tool

SPECIFICATIONS

CAMERA/VIDEO INPUTS

Interface standard(s) Camera Link 2.0
Connectors Two Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) Miniature Camera Link (MiniCL)
ECCO – Extended Camera Link Cable Operation ECCO
Number of cameras
  • One 80-bit / 72-bit / Full / Medium / Base configuration camera
  • Or two Base configuration cameras
Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate 6.8 Gbit/s (850 MB/s)
Camera Link configuration Base, Medium, Full, 72-bit, 80-bit
Camera Link clock frequency From 20 MHz up to 85 MHz
PoCL (Power over Camera Link)
  • PoCL Safe Power:
    • Two independent controllers
    • PoCL Device detection and automatic power-on
    • Overload and short-circuit protection
  • 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 (RGB and Bayer CFA)
  • Line-scan cameras:
    • 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

NOTE: Contact us for availability

ONBOARD PROCESSING

On-board memory 512 MB
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 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 Advanced interpolation method using average and median functions on a 3×3 kernel NOTE: Contact us for availability
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
  • 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, 4-lane PCI Express card
Cooling method Air cooling, fan-cooled heatsink
Mounting For insertion in a standard height, 4-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot
Connectors
  • ‘A’ on bracket:
    • 26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket
    • Camera Link camera #1 Base connector
  • ‘B’ on bracket:
    • 26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket
    • Camera Link camera #1 Medium/Full/72-bit/80-bit connector
    • Camera Link camera #2 Base connector
  • ‘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’ on PCB:
    • 26-pin 2-row 0.1″ pitch pin header with shrouding
    • I/O lines and power output
  • ‘INTERNAL I/O 2’ on PCB:
    • 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 PCB:
    • 6-pin PEG power socket
    • 12 VDC power input for PoCL camera(s) and I/O power output
  • ‘C2C-LINK’ on PCB:
    • 6-pin 2-row 0.1-in header
    • Card to card link
LED indicators
  • ‘A’, ‘B’ on bracket:
    • Bi-color red/green LEDs
    • Camera Link 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 150 g, 5.29 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 2.0
Link width
  • 4 lanes
  • 1 lane or 2 lanes with reduced performance
Link speed
  • 5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0)
  • 2.5 GT/s (PCIe 1.0) with reduced performance
Maximum payload size 512 bytes
Peak delivery bandwidth 2,000 MB/s
Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth 1,700 MB/s (Host PC motherboard dependent)
Power consumption Typ. 7.1 W ( 2.7 W @ +3.3V, 4.4 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

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
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.
  • 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 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

Determined by the selected firmware variant:

  • ‘1-camera’: 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 C2C
  • ‘2-camera’: 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 C2C
  • ‘1-camera, line-scan’: 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C
  • ‘2-camera, line-scan’: 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 3 C2C

SOFTWARE

SOFTWARE

Host PC Operating System
  • Microsoft Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 7 for x86-64 (64-bit) processor architecture
  • Linux for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures
  • macOS for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures
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_64’ dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86-64 (64-bit) applications
    • ‘aarch6’4 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of AArch64 (64-bit) applications
  • GenICam GenCP generic control protocol (for cameras featuring GenCP)

ACCESSORIES

ACCESSORIES

Optional accessories

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