Feature |
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Form Factor |
PCI Express card |
Format |
Standard profile, half length, 8-lane PCI Express card |
Cooling method |
Air cooling, fan-cooled heatsink (Optional passive heatsink) |
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 CoaXPress-over-Fiber (CoF) v2.1 interface |
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x1 I/O connector 26-pin 2-row 0.1” pitch pin header with shrouding on board |
Dimensions |
167.65 mm x 111.15 mm | 6.6 in. x 4.38 in. (Length x Height) |
Weight |
183 g (6.5 oz) |
Host bus |
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Standard |
PCI Express 3.0 |
Link width |
8 lanes, 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 |
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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 |
16.8 W, excluding camera and I/O power output |
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Camera / video inputs |
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Interface standard(s) |
CoaXPress-over-Fiber (CoF) v2.1 |
Status LEDs |
1 bicolor status LED per connector |
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4 System status LEDs |
Number of cameras |
Up to 4 |
Number of links, per single camera |
Up to 4 |
Synchronization between cameras |
Yes |
Line-scan cameras supported |
Yes |
MAX 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 (Row partitioning on multi cable) |
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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 |
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Where XX = GR, RG, GB, or BG |
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RGB8, RGB10, RGB12, RGB14, RGB16 |
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YUV411_8, YUV411_10, YUV411_12, YUV411_14, YUV411_16 |
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YUV422_8, YUV422_10, YUV422_12, YUV422_14, YUV422_16 |
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YUV444_8, YUV444_10, YUV444_12, YUV444_14, YUV444_16 |
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YCbCr601_411_8, YCbCr601_411_10, YCbCr601_411_12, YCbCr601_411_14, |
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YCbCr601_411_16 |
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YCbCr601_422_8, YCbCr601_422_10, YCbCr601_422_12, YCbCr601_422_14, |
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YCbCr601_422_16 |
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YCbCr601_444_8, YCbCr601_444_10, YCbCr601_444_12, YCbCr601_444_14, |
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YCbCr601_444_16 |
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Area-scan camera control |
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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 |
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strobe pulses. |
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Line-scan camera control |
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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 |
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direction and backward motion compensation. |
Line strobe |
Accurate control of the strobe position for strobe light sources. |
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On-board processing |
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On-board memory |
Up to 4GByte DDR4 SODIMM |
Bayer De-Mosaic |
Full 16bit resolution |
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Bilinear 3×3 |
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Bilinear 3×2 for linescan with gradient correction |
Color Transformation |
Full 16bit resolution 18bit 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 with justification to LSB |
Frame Timestamp |
64bit with 8ns precision |
Data stream statistics |
Measurement of: |
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Frame/Line rate |
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CRC Errors |
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Dropped frames |
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Received packets |
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Test packets |
Event signaling and counting |
The application software can be notified of the occurrence of various events: |
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Newly acquired buffers |
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Camera and Illumination control events |
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I/O events |
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Timer events |
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Encoder events |
General Purpose Inputs and Outputs |
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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 line |
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Any I/O line can be used to decode A/B and Z signals of a motion encoder |
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Any I/O line can generate any trigger event |
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Any I/O line can trigger a timer |
Electrical specifications |
Differential lines – LVDS compatible |
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TTL lines – 5V TTL compliant |
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LVTTL lines – 3.3V LVTTL compliant |
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Isolated lines – opto isolated lines with voltage range up to 30V |
Filter control |
Glitch removal filter available on all System I/O input lines |
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Configurable filter time constants: |
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for DIN and TTLIO lines: 50 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns,1 µs |
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for IIN lines: 500 ns, 1 µs, 2 µs, 5 µs, 10 µs |
Polarity control |
Yes |
Encoders |
4 quadrature encoders with A/B and Z inputs |
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32bit 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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32bit 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 |
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Frame Grabber synchronization |
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Synchronization |
Precise area and line-scan cameras synchronization across different frame grabbers |
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Software |
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Host PC Operating System |
Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit versions |
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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) |
Buffer management |
Circular buffer support |
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Accumulation of several frames/lines to single buffer to reduce |
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CPU load |
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DMA Buffer filling directly to system memory |
Gen<i>Cam |
Supports Gen<i>Cam 3.2 |
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Full camera and frame grabber parameters configuration |
GUI |
Supported for Windows and Linux OS |
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Multi camera display and configuration |
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Flexible buffer queuing |
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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 C, Python and .NET bindings |
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Compilers: |
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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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Environmental conditions |
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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 |
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Certifications |
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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 |
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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 |
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according to local regulations |