Mechanical |
Form factor |
Thunderbolt 3 |
Format |
External Thunderbolt 3 enclosure |
Cooling method |
Fan-cooled Heatsink |
Mounting |
Stand Alone |
Connectors • Ports |
1 through 1 via x1 Micro-BNC connectors for CoaXPress v2.1 interface |
Dimensions |
133 mm x 45 mm x 25 mm |
Weight |
163.6 g |
Host Bus |
Standard |
PCI Express 2.0 |
Link width |
• 2 lanes
• 1 lane with reduced performance |
Link speed |
• 5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0) |
Maximum payload size |
256 bytes |
DMA |
• 64-bit addressing support
• Scatter gather support
• Physical address support (GPU transfers) |
Peak delivery bandwidth |
1,000 MB/s |
Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth |
850 MB/s (Host PC dependent) |
Power consumption |
10 W, excluding camera and I/O power output |
Camera / Video Inputs |
Interface standard(s) |
CoaXPress v2.1 (CoaXPress 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1 and 2.0 backward compatible) |
Status LEDs |
• 1 bicolor status LED per camera connector
• 2 System status LEDs |
Number of cameras |
Up to 1 |
Number of links per single camera |
Up to 1 |
Number of streams per single camera |
Up to 1 |
Total number of streams per frame grabber |
Up to 1 |
Synchronization between cameras |
Yes |
Line-scan cameras supported |
Yes |
Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate |
6.25 Gbit/s |
Supported 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) |
Supported up-connection speeds |
• Low-speed 20.83 Mbps (CXP-1 to CXP-6)
• Low-speed 41.66 Mbps (CXP-10, CXP-12) |
Maximum stream packet size |
8,192 bytes |
Power over protocol |
• PoCXP Safe Power
• 13 W of 24 V DC regulated power per CoaXPress connector
• PoCXP Device detection and automatic power-on
• Overload and short-circuit protections
• On-board 12 V to 24 V DC/DC converter |
Camera types |
Area-scan cameras:
• Gray-scale and color (RGB and Bayer CFA)
• Single-tap (1X-1Y) progressive-scan
• Single-tap (1X-1Y) interlaced
Line-scan cameras:
• Gray-scale and color RGB |
Camera pixel formats supported |
Raw, Monochrome, Bayer, RGB, YUV, YCbCr 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
• YUV411_8, YUV411_10, YUV411_12, YUV411_14, YUV411_16
• YUV422_8, YUV422_10, YUV422_12, YUV422_14, YUV422_16
• YUV444_8, YUV444_10, YUV444_12, YUV444_14, YUV444_16
• YCbCr601_411_8, YCbCr601_411_10, YCbCr601_411_12, YCbCr601_411_14, YCbCr601_411_16
• YCbCr601_422_8, YCbCr601_422_10, YCbCr601_422_12, YCbCr601_422_14,YCbCr601_422_16
• YCbCr601_444_8, YCbCr601_444_10, YCbCr601_444_12, YCbCr601_444_14, YCbCr601_444_16 |
Area-Scan Camera Control |
Trigger |
• Precise control of asynchronous reset cameras, with exposure control.
• Support of camera exposure/readout overlap
• Support of triggering from encoder or timer
• Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay, filtering and trigger decimation |
Strobe |
Accurate control of the strobe position for strobe 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 and filtering
• Support of triggering from encoder
• Support of infinite acquisition without missing lines |
Line trigger |
Support for quadrature motion encoders, with programmable filters, selection of acquisition direction and backward motion compensation |
Line strobe |
Accurate control of the strobe position for strobe light sources |
On-Board Processing |
On-board memory |
512 MB DDR3 |
Bayer De-Mosaic |
• Full 16-bit resolution
• Bilinear 3×3
• Bilinear 3×2 for linescan with gradient correction |
Color transformation |
• Full 16-bit resolution 18-bit coefficients table
• Color space conversion
• Gain and Offset |
Decimation |
Line skip |
Additional features |
Unpacking of 10/12/14-bit to 16-bit LSB aligned |
Frame timestamp |
64-bit with 8 ns precision |
Data stream statistics |
Measurement of:
• Frame rate
• CRC Errors
• Received/Dropped frames
• Received/Dropped packets
• Test packets |
Event signaling and counting |
The application software can be notified of the occurrence of various events:
• Newly acquired buffers
• I/O events
• Timer events
• Encoder events |
Software |
Host PC operating system |
• Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit version
• Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit version
• Signed and certified kernel driver supporting Windows 10 and 11
• Source code Linux kernel driver (Automaticlly compiled during installation)
• Tested for Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04 versions
• Nvidia Xavier AGX (Jetpack 5.1.1 and 4.6.1)
• Nvidia Orin AGX (Jetpack 5.1.1) |
Gen<i>Cam |
• Support of Gen<i>Cam 3.2
• Full camera and Frame Grabber parameters configuration |
Buffer management |
• Circular buffer support
• Accumulation of several frames/lines to single buffer to reduce CPU load
• Flexible buffer queuing
• DMA Buffer filling directly to system memory |
GUI |
• Supported for Windows and Linux OS
• Multi camera display and configuration
• Image/video recording and playback |
Debugging capabilities |
• Event logging
• Statistics counters |
APIs |
• Gen<i>Cam, GenTL producer libraries, ANSI C, Python and NET bindings
• x86 64 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C runtime
• Allows for development of x86 64 applications
• Plug-in modules for Matlab, HALCON, Cognex and Labview
• Export straightforward, unified and easy-to-use API across all Grabber types
• Include practical examples based on API functions, for supported language wrappers
• Documentation include sample snippets for API usage |
Environmental Conditions |
Operating ambient air temperature |
0°C to +50°C ( 32°F to +122°F) |
Operating ambient air humidity |
10% to 90% RH non-condensing |
Storage ambient air temperature |
0°C to +55°C ( 32°F to +131°F) |
Storage ambient air humidity |
10% to 90% RH non-condensing |
Shock/Vibration |
– |
Certifications |
Electromagnetic – EMC standards |
• The European Council EMC Directive 2004/108/EC
• The Unites 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 |
Flammability |
PCB compliant with UL 94 V-0 |
RoHS |
Compliant with the European Union Directive 2011/65/EU (RoHS2) |
REACH |
Compliant with the European Union Regulation No 1907/2006 |
WEEE |
Must be disposed of separately from normal household waste and must be recycled according to local regulations |
Ordering Information |
Part Number |
KY-FGP-II-TB |
Optional accessories |
CoaXPress cables
KY-PWR12 – 12V power supply to use PoCXP |