CameraLink News

Active Silicon High Performance frame grabber captures full 200MB/s data rate from Silicon Imaging SI3170.

 

London, UK (July 26, 2002) The SI3170 from Silicon Imaging has a 3.2Million pixel High Definition CMOS sensor capable of running at 30 frames/second at its full 2056*1560 resolution. Using dual 12-bit digitisers each running at 50MHz the camera produces a massive 100Mpixel/second output.

 

The Phoenix Pro CameraLink board is able to acquire all of this data which, at 12-bits per pixel, translates to a burst rate of 200Mbytes/second. The Phoenix frame grabber can deal with this due to its highly efficient DMA engine combined with the 64-bit/66MHz bus. The maximum data rate for the board is 533Mbytes/sec, subject to host performance.

The standard operating systems supported via a common API include: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, and Linux ...plus VxWorks, Solaris and MacOS X.

 

 

CORECO IMAGING ANNOUNCES HIGH-PERFORMANCE, 64-BIT CAMERA LINK™ FRAME GRABBERS


Montreal, Quebec (May 21, 2002) - Coreco Imaging, a leading developer of high-performance machine vision products, announces the release of the X64-CL Series high-performance Camera Link™ digital frame grabbers designed for the 64-bit PCI bus. With their ability to acquire images from two unsynchronized cameras simultaneously and to transfer images at a rate of up to 528MB/s, the X64-CL Series are the industry's fastest and most flexible 64-bit frame grabbers.

"The X64-CL Series incorporates a number of leading-edge features and functionalities that provide OEMs with the speed, flexibility, and reliability they need," said Philip Colet, Vice-President, International Sales & Marketing. "The unique ACU-Plus acquisition control unit and Data Transfer Engine provide superior image acquisition and transfer capabilities, offering new levels of machine vision performance in semiconductor manufacturing, electronic assembly, packaging, continuous web inspection, and other applications that demand highly reliable, high-speed inspections."

The ACU-Plus is a state-of-the art acquisition control unit that allows the X64-CL Series to deliver one of the most flexible acquisition front ends in the industry. Consisting of two sets of independent grab controllers, pixel packers, and timing generators, the ACU-Plus can acquire images from two independent base Camera Link™ cameras simultaneously, or from one Medium or Full Camera Link™ camera. The ACU-Plus can acquire up to 256KB per horizontal line and up to 16 million lines per frame. Capable of supporting pixel clock rates of up to 66MHz (85MHz optional), the X64-CL Series provides rapid, reliable image acquisition.

The X64-CL Series also features an intelligent Data-Transfer-Engine (DTE) that transmits images between the board and the host without using the CPU, ensuring the fastest possible image data transfer rate. Unique in its abilities, the DTE consists of multiple independent DMA units, tap descriptor tables, and auto-loading scatter-gather tables, providing a high degree of data integrity during continuous image acquisition in non-realtime operating systems like Windows® NT/2K or Windows XP. And, when acquiring images from two independent cameras simultaneously, the DTE ensures that the acquired frames are sent to the correct destination buffers in the appropriate pixel formats, allowing vision applications to perform core image processing tasks more efficiently.

EPIX first to market with SI3170 support

 

Buffalo Grove, IL  (Jan 5, 2002) The PIXCI® CL1 Camera Link board accepts data from a Camera Link camera while providing exposure, reset, and serial control. The PIXCI® CL1 capture and control board reduces the cost of digital imaging systems by reducing the cost of cabling and integrated circuits for interfacing a camera to a computer. The PIXCI® CL1 has a single 26 pin connector and supports a camera with the Base configuration of the Camera Link specification. The PIXCI® CL1 transfers video data to the PCI bus at up to 100 megabytes per second sustained rates as a PCI bus master. The PIXCI® CL1 operates in a 32 bit, 33 MHz PCI bus slot.

 

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EDT does Camera Link PMC

 

The PMC DV C-LINK provides high resolution image capture for Camera Link monochrome and color digital cameras. One MDR 26 pin connector (Camera Link standard) is provided, which supports one base Camera Link camera.

The PMC DV C-LINK is a dual channel DMA interface, with 200 Megabytes per second capability in a 66MHz slot, or 117 Mb/sec in a 33Mhz slot. Spatial and depth resolution and the number of buffers are limited only by the host memory. Images can be captured and displayed in real-time. The board complies with PMC form factor specifications and will fit in any PMC slot.

 
 

Matrox Meteor-II/MC for PC/104-Plus
4Sight-II

Connect to Camera Link on PC/104+ with the Matrox 4Sight-II

February 13, 2002, Birmingham, U.K. – As announced today at IPOT 2002, Matrox Imaging is further adding to the acquisition capabilities of its 4Sight-II industrial computer with the new Meteor-II/Camera Link module for PC/104-Plus. This module provides a simple standard connection to digital imaging devices that use the Camera Link interface specification.

Through a flexible design, this module supports one, two or four tap monochrome, as well as component RGB, area or line scan video sources. With acquisition rates up to 50 MHz, a configurable LUT (four 256 x 8-bit and two 4K x 12-bit) and trigger input and timer outputs, the Meteor-II/Camera Link module for 4Sight-II features a 32-bit, 33 MHz PCI bus master interface, real-time transfer to system or VGA memory and extensive on-board buffering (32 MB) for reliable capture. This module also supports packed or planar transfers of color or multiple monochrome streams.

The Meteor-II/Camera Link adds to the 4Sight-II's already extensive collection of optional frame grabber modules, including the Orion/Standard, Orion/RGB and Orion/Dual, as well as the Meteor-II/Multi-Channel and Meteor-II/Digital frame grabbers for PC/104-Plus.

The Meteor-II/Camera Link for 4Sight-II module option is currently available.