| Mechanical |
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| Form factor |
PCI Express card |
| Format |
Low profile, 4-lane PCI Express card |
| Cooling method |
Passive, requires airflow |
| Mounting |
For insertion in a 4-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot |
| Connectors |
Ports 1 through 1 via x1 SFP+ connectors for CoaXPress-over-Fiber (CoF) v2.1 interface |
| Dimensions |
168.65 mm x 68.9 mm (6.6\u201d x 2.7\u201d) |
| Weight |
110 g (3.9 oz) |
| Host Bus |
|
| Standard |
PCI Express 2.0 |
| Link width |
4 lanes
1 or 2 lanes 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 |
2,000 MB/s |
Effective (sustained) delivery
bandwidth |
1,700 MB/s (Host PC dependent) |
| Power consumption |
7 W, excluding camera and I/O power output |
| Camera / Video Inputs |
|
| Interface standard(s) |
CoaXPress-over-Fiber (CoF) v2.1 |
| Status LEDs |
1 bicolor status LED per camera connector
4 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 |
15.9 Gbit/s |
| Supported down-connection speeds |
• 10.3 GT/s
• 12.5 GT/s
• 13.75 GT/s
• 15.9375 GT/s |
| Supported up-connection speeds |
• 10.3 GT/s
• 12.5 GT/s
• 13.75 GT/s
• 15.9375 GT/s |
| Maximum stream packet size |
8,192 bytes |
| Power over protocol |
|
| 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 BGR GB8, 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 |
General Purpose Inputs and
Outputs |
|
| Number of lines |
20 I/O lines:
2 differential inputs
2 differential outputs
4 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs
4 singled-ended LVTTL inputs/outputs
4 opto-isolated inputs]
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 |
| Electrical specifications |
Differential lines – LVDS compatible
TTL lines: 5 V TTL compliant
LVTTL lines: 3.3 V LVTTL compliant
Isolated lines: opto-isolated lines with voltage range up to 30 V |
| Filter control |
• Glitch removal filter for Encoders and Triggers
• Configurable filter time between 0 μs and 34 ms
• Filter time resolution of 8 ns |
| Polarity control |
Yes |
| Encoders |
4 quadrature encoders with A/B and Z inputs
32-bit position counter
Forward and backward counting
Position trigger support
Noise filtering |
| Timers/Counters |
4 general purpose timers
Configurable delay and duration
32-bit accumulator
64-bit system timestamp event reporting
Each I/O line can generate event on configurable edge
Each Timer can generate event
Each encoder can generate event |
| Event reporting |
|
| 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.
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
selection of acquisition direction and backward motion compensation\tfor quadrature motion encoders, with programmable filters, |
| 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) |
| 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 |
0C to +50C ( 32F to +122F) |
| Operating ambient air humidity |
10% to 90% RH non-condensing |
| Storage ambient air temperature |
-20C to +70C ( -4F to +158F) |
| Storage ambient air humidity |
10% to 90% RH non-condensing |
| Shock/Vibration |
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