The Grablink Quickpack CFA -Color Filter Array- is a flexible and high-performance image acquisition and pre-processing board dedicated to area-scan color inspection. A set of dedicated on-board pre-processing functions speeds up image processing for applications such as PCB, food or pharmaceutical inspection without loading the host CPU.

These functions include a Bayer pattern decoder and a luminance blender providing simultaneous Y and RGB output –planar or packed- for monochrome and color inspection. An optional white balance is computed on automatically selected white pixels or on a user-defined Region Of Interest. Finally, four independent LUT operators are available for the R, G, B and Y components.

The Grablink Quickpack CFA is now released in a PCI Express x4 version. This PoCL board interfaces Base configuration Camera Link cameras up to 85 MHz and it processes 8-, 10- or 12-bit images. The Grablink Quickpack CFA PCIe is featured with a 128 MB memory and nine general-purpose I/O lines.