Mechanical |
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Form factor |
PCI Express card |
Format |
Standard profile, half-length, 8-lane PCI Express card |
Cooling method |
Passive, requires airflow |
Mounting |
For insertion in a standard height, 8-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot |
Connectors |
• Ports 1 through 4 via x4 SFP+ connectors for Camera Link High Speed compatible v1.2 interface |
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• x1 I/O connector 26-pin 2-row 0.1” pitch pin header with shrouding on |
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board |
Dimensions |
167.65 mm x 111.15 mm (6.6” x 4.4”) |
Weight |
250 g (8.8 oz) |
Host Bus |
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Standard |
PCI Express 3.0 |
Link width |
• 8 lanes |
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• 1, 2 or 4 lanes with reduced performance |
Link speed |
• 8.0 GT/s (PCIe 3.0) |
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• 5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0) with reduced performance |
Maximum payload size |
2,048 bytes |
DMA |
• 64-bit addressing support |
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• Scatter gather support |
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• Physical address support (GPU transfers) |
Peak delivery bandwidth |
7,877 MB/s |
Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth |
6,695 MB/s (Host PC dependent) |
Power consumption |
16 W, excluding camera and I/O power output |
Camera / Video Inputs |
Interface standard(s) |
Camera Link High Speed compatible v1.2 |
Status LEDs |
• 1 bicolor status LED per camera connector |
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• 4 System status LEDs |
Number of cameras |
Up to 4 |
Number of links per single camera |
Up to 4 |
Number of streams per single camera |
Up to 4 |
Total number of streams per frame grabber |
Up to 4 |
Synchronization between cameras |
Yes |
Line-scan cameras supported |
Yes |
Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate |
41.3 Gbit/s |
Supported down-connection speeds |
• 10.3125 Gbit/s |
Supported up-connection speeds |
• 10.3125 Gbit/s |
Maximum stream packet size |
8,192 bytes |
Power over protocol |
– |
Camera types |
Area-scan cameras: |
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• Gray-scale and color (RGB and Bayer CFA) |
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• Single-tap (1X-1Y) progressive-scan |
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• Single-tap (1X-1Y) interlaced Line-scan cameras: |
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• Gray-scale and color RGB |
Camera pixel formats supported |
Raw, Monochrome, Bayer, RGB, YUV, YCbCr and RGBA (PFNC names): |
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• Raw |
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• Mono8, Mono10, Mono12, Mono14, Mono16 |
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• BayerXX8, BayerXX10, BayerXX12, BayerXX14, BayerXX16 where XX |
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= GR, RG, GB, or BG |
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• RGB8, RGB10, RGB12, RGB14, RGB16 |
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• RGBA8, RGBA10, RGBA12, RGBA14, RGBA16 |
General Purpose Inputs and Outputs |
Number of lines |
20 I/O lines: |
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• 2 differential inputs |
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• 2 differential outputs |
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• 4 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs |
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• 4 singled-ended LVTTL inputs/outputs |
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• 4 opto-isolated inputs] |
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• 4 opto-isolated outputs |
Usage • Any System I/O input lines can be connected to any I/O output line |
• Any I/O input line can be used to decode A/B and Z signals of a motion encoder |
• Any I/O input line can generate any trigger event |
• Any I/O input line can trigger a timer |
Electrical specifications |
• Differential lines – LVDS compatible |
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• TTL lines: 5 V TTL compliant |
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• LVTTL lines: 3.3 V LVTTL compliant |
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• Isolated lines: opto-isolated lines with voltage range up to 30 V |
Encoders |
• 4 quadrature encoders with A/B and Z inputs |
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• 32-bit position counter |
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• Forward and backward counting |
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• Position trigger support |
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• Noise filtering |
Timers |
• 4 general purpose timers |
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• Configurable delay and duration |
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• 32-bit accumulator |
Event reporting |
• 64-bit system timestamp event reporting |
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• Each I/O line can generate event on configurable edge |
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• Each Timer can generate event |
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• Each encoder can generate event |
Frame Grabber Synchronization |
Synchronization |
Precise area and line-scan cameras synchronization across different frame grabbers |
Area-Scan Camera Control |
Trigger |
• Precise control of asynchronous reset cameras, with exposure control. |
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• Support of camera exposure/readout overlap |
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• Support of triggering from encoder or timer |
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• 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 |
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• Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay and filtering |
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• Support of triggering from encoder |
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• 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 |
On-Board Processing |
On-board memory |
4 GB DDR4 |
Color transformation |
• Full 16-bit resolution 18-bit coefficients table |
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• Color space conversion |
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• 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 |
Software |
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Host PC operating system |
• Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit version |
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• Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit version |
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• Signed and certified kernel driver supporting Windows 10 and 11 |
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• Source code Linux kernel driver (Automaticlly compiled during installation) |
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• Tested for Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04 versions |
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• Nvidia Xavier AGX (Jetpack 5.1.1 and 4.6.1) |
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• Nvidia Orin AGX (Jetpack 5.1.1) |
Gen<i>Cam |
• Support of Gen<i>Cam 3.2 |
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• Full camera and Frame Grabber parameters configuration |
Buffer management |
• Circular buffer support |
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• Accumulation of several frames/lines to single buffer to reduce CPU load |
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• Flexible buffer queuing |
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• DMA Buffer filling directly to system memory |
GUI |
• Supported for Windows and Linux OS |
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• Multi camera display and configuration |
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• Image/video recording and playback |
Debugging capabilities |
• Event logging |
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• Statistics counters |
APIs |
• Gen<i>Cam, GenTL producer libraries, ANSI C, Python and NET bindings |
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x86 64 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C runtime |
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• Allows for development of x86 64 applications |
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Plug-in modules for Matlab, HALCON, Cognex and Labview |
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• Export straightforward, unified and easy-to-use API across all Grabber types |
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• Include practical examples based on API functions, for supported language wrappers |
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• 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 |
-20°C to +70°C ( -4°F to +158°F) |
Storage ambient air humidity |
10% to 90% RH non-condensing |
Certifications |
Electromagnetic – EMC standards |
• The European Council EMC Directive 2004/108/EC |
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• 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 |
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• EN 61000-4-3 |
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• EN 61000-4-4 |
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• 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 |