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High-Speed Digital Camera Link Image Acquisition Boards
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The Grablink series is a range of high-speed PCI, PCI Express and Compact PCI frame grabbers for line-scan or
area-scan digital Camera Link cameras. State-of-the-art cameras are easily connected with off-the-shelf Camera
Link compliant cables. The Grablink series is ideal for industrial applications such as inspection of high-speed moving
objects, web inspection or high-resolution acquisition.
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Acquisition:
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Up to 24-bit / 48-bit at maximum 85 MHz
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Camera Link configurations: Base, dual Base or Medium
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Support of LINE-SCAN and AREA-SCAN cameras
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Multiple taps, tap reversal, tap multiplex
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Large on-board memory
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Asynchronous reset, exposure control and I/O lines -trigger & strobe-
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Camera Link serial line configurable as an additional PC COM port
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MultiCam drivers for Microsoft Windows® and Linux
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GRABLINK series Comparison Chart
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GRABLINK series General Features
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Serial Control of Camera
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The Grablink series supports the Camera Link pseudo RS-232 serial line. The application software can use the Camera
Link API functions to control the camera. Alternatively, the serial line can be configured as an additional PC COM port
ensuring interoperability with existing camera control software.
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Bus Mastering
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All Euresys frame grabbers are PCI bus mastering agents that directly store the acquired images into the PC physical
memory without CPU involvement. As a unique feature, a Euresys board automatically recovers the scatter-gather
virtual memory mapping to present the data as a regular bitmap image in a user allocated memory buffer.
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Windows Of Interest (WOI) Support
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The Grablink series seamlessly support the acquisition of a WOI rather than a full image.
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Interfaced Cameras
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The Grablink series interfaces an impressive choice of different cameras.
An up-to-date list is available on the Interfacing Cameras page.
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High-Performance LINE-SCAN and AREA-SCAN Applications
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Flexible and Reliable LINE-SCAN Acquisition
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Camera modes: The Grablink series interfaces
to state-of-the-art Camera Link line-scan cameras with line rate
and exposure control. Free running cameras are supported as well.
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Continuous web scanning:
The "web mode" allows inspecting a continuously moving surface without losing a single line.
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Successive object scanning:
In "page mode", a Grablink acquires a set of
consecutive lines constituting a 2D image. The acquisition starts when the object
enters the camera field of view, as signaled by an external trigger.
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Motion encoder:
When the observed web or object moves at a variable speed, the frame grabber imposes
a camera scanning rate derived from a motion encoder. This guarantees a fixed pixel
aspect ratio. Perfect square pixels are achievable. A built-in rate converter of
the Grablink boards defines any ratio between the camera scanning rate and the encoder
pulse rate with 1/1000 resolution. Thus, an off-the-shelf encoder can serve several applications.
The exposure control feature guarantees a constant sensitivity despite the speed variation.
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ADR Technology™*
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Simple and reliable LINE-SCAN acquisition with constant lighting sensitivity and line rate
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In many applications, a line-scan camera has to be operated at a constant
cycling rate in order to maintain a constant sensitivity. The Grablink
Avenue and the Grablink Express implement ADR*, a unique downweb
resampling feature, yielding a defined aspect ratio irrespective of web speed
variations, even without an electronic shutter on the camera.
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A built-in rate converter accommodates an off-the-shelf motion encoder to
control the line acquisition process, enabling any programmable aspect
ratio, including perfect square pixels.
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ADR* makes the most of the line-scan camera, as the sensitivity is not
impaired by the shuttering.
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Download the "About ADR Technology" flyer
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Full Support of AREA-SCAN Acquisition
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Camera modes:
Features such as asynchronous reset, exposure control, strobe lighting often
required in industrial applications are available on the Grablink series. The synchronous mode is
also supported.
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Trigger and exposure control:
An external signal can be sent to the frame grabber to trigger the
acquisition. The Grablink series is capable of consistently controlling the exposure time and the
illumination.
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Camera tap structure:
For any tap structure, a Grablink delivers a re-ordered bitmap image to
the PC memory. Tap-reversal is supported. With the multiplex tap technique, several taps are
interleaved over Camera Link as long as the combined data rate remains below the pixel clock
frequency specified for the board.
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MultiCam™
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Multicam drivers available
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Microsoft for Windows 32-bit
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Microsoft for Windows 64-bit
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MultiCam for Linux 32-bit
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MultiCam for Linux 64-bit
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Components delivered
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MultiCam for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit
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MultiCam driver: - A 32 bit and 64 bit binary library
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- DirectShow® filters
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- An ActiveX controls library
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MultiCam for Linux 32-bit and 64-bit
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MultiCam driver: a 32 bit and 64 bit binary library
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MultiCam Studio
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Documentation
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Sample programs
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Supported OS
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Microsoft for Windows 32-bit: Windows 7®, Vista®, XP® and Server 2008®
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Microsoft for Windows 64-bit: Windows 7®, Vista®, XP®, Server 2008® and Server 2008 R2®
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MultiCam for Linux 32-bit and 64-bit
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These two MultiCam drivers are designed to be distribution-independent on x86 and x86-64 platforms with kernels versions up to 2.6.31. It is expected to work with a wide range of distributions. Support will only be provided under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, which is the validated distribution.
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Supported development tools
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The 32-bit and 64-bit binary libraries are designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for
the development of respectively 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86-64) applications.
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DirectShow® filters are designed to be used with 32-bit (x86) Microsoft Visual C++ compilers for
the development of 32-bit (x86) applications.
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The ActiveX controls library is designed to be used with ActiveX-compatible development tools for
the development of 32-bit (x86) applications.
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