| Mechanical |
| Format |
Standard profile, half length, 4-lane PCI Express card |
| Cooling method |
Air cooling, fan-cooled heatsink |
| Mounting |
For insertion in a standard height, 4-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot |
| Connectors |
- 'A' on bracket:
- 26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket
- Camera Link camera #1 Base connector
- 'B' on bracket:
- 26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket
- Camera Link camera #1 Medium/Full/72-bit/80-bit connector
- Camera Link camera #2 Base connector
- 'EXTERNAL I/O' on bracket:
- 26-pin 3-row high-density female sub-D connector
- I/O lines and power output
- 'INTERNAL I/O 1' on PCB:
- 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding
- I/O lines and power output
- 'INTERNAL I/O 2' on PCB:
- 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding
- I/O lines and power output
- 'I/O EXTENSION' on PCB:
- 26-pin 2-row 0.05" pitch pin header with shrouding
- I/O extension lines and power output
- 'AUXILIARY POWER INPUT' on PCB:
- 6-pin PEG power socket
- 12 VDC power input for PoCL camera(s) and I/O power output
- 'C2C-LINK' on PCB:
- 6-pin 2-row 0.1-in header
- Card to card link
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| LED indicators |
- 'A', 'B' on bracket:
- Bi-color red/green LEDs
- Camera Link status indicator
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| Switches |
'RECOVERY' on PCB:
- 3-pin 1-row 0.1" header or 2-way DIP switch
- Firmware emergency recovery
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| Dimensions |
PCB L X H: 167.65 mm x 111.15 mm, 6.6 in x 4.38 in |
| Weight |
150 g, 5.29 oz |
| Host bus |
| Standard |
PCI Express 2.0 |
| Link width |
- 4 lanes
- 1 lane or 2 lanes with reduced performance
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| Link speed |
- 5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0)
- 2.5 GT/s (PCIe 1.0) with reduced performance
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| Maximum payload size |
512 bytes |
| Peak delivery bandwidth |
2,000 MB/s |
| Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth |
1,700 MB/s (Host PC motherboard dependent) |
| Power consumption |
Typ. 7.1 W ( 2.7 W @ +3.3V, 4.4 W @ +12V), excluding camera and I/O power output |
| Camera / video inputs |
| Interface standard(s) |
Camera Link 2.0 |
| Connectors |
Two Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) Miniature Camera Link (MiniCL) |
| ECCO - Extended Camera Link Cable Operation |
ECCO |
| Number of cameras |
- One 80-bit / 72-bit / Full / Medium / Base configuration camera
- Or two Base configuration cameras
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| Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate |
6.8 Gbit/s (850 MB/s) |
| Camera Link configuration |
Base, Medium, Full, 72-bit, 80-bit |
| Camera Link clock frequency |
From 20 MHz up to 85 MHz
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| PoCL (Power over Camera Link) |
- PoCL Safe Power:
- Two independent controllers
- PoCL Device detection and automatic power-on
- Overload and short-circuit protection
- A +12V power source must be connected to the AUXILIARY POWER INPUT connector using a 6-pin PEG cable
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| Camera types |
- Area-scan cameras:
- Grayscale and color (RGB and Bayer CFA)
- Line-scan cameras:
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| Camera pixel formats supported |
- Mono8, Mono10, Mono12, Mono14, Mono16
- BayerXX8, BayerXX10, BayerXX12, BayerXX16 where XX = GR, RG, GB, or BG
- RGB8
NOTE: Refer to release notes for availability of BayerXX14, RGB10, RGB12, RGB14 and RGB16 formats
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| Area-scan camera control |
| Trigger |
- Precise control of asynchronous reset cameras, with exposure control.
- Support of camera exposure/readout overlap.
- Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay and trigger decimation.
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| Strobe |
- Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.
- Support of early and late strobe pulses.
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| 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.
- Support of infinite acquisition, without missing line, for web inspection applications.
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| Line trigger |
- Support for quadrature motion encoders, with programmable noise filters, selection of acquisition direction and backward motion compensation.
- Rate Converter tool for fine control of the pixel aspect ratio: Rate Conversion Ratio in the range 0.001 to 1000 with an accuracy better than 0.1%.
- Rate Divider tool
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| Line strobe |
- Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.
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| On-board processing |
| On-board memory |
512 MB |
| Image data stream processing |
- Unpacking of 10-/12-/14-bit to 16-bit with selectable justification to LSb or MSb
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| Input LUT (Lookup Table) |
- Monochrome 8-bit to 8-bit transformation
- Monochrome 10-bit to 8-, 10- or 16-bit transformations
- Monochrome 12-bit to 8-, 12- or 16-bit transformations
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| Bayer CFA to RGB decoder |
Advanced interpolation method using average and median functions on a 3x3 kernel |
| Data stream statistics |
- Measurement of:
- Frame rate (Area-scan only)
- Line rate
- Data rate
- Configurable averaging interval
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| Event signaling and counting |
- The application software can be notified of the occurrence of various events:
- Standard event: the EVENT_NEW_BUFFER event notifies the application of newly filled buffers
- A large set of custom events
- Custom events sources:
- I/O Toolbox events
- Camera and Illumination control events
- Each custom event is associated with a 32-bit counter that counts the number of occurrences
- The last three 32-bit context data words of the event context data can be configured with event-specific context data:
- Event-specific data
- State of all System I/O lines sampled at the event occurrence time
- Value of any event counter
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| Metadata Insertion |
Recording of metadata beside image data.
- The metadata are composed with a configurable set of general purpose event counters, quadrature encoder position counters and/or I/O line status.
- Line metadata are captured every acquired image line.
- Buffer metadata are only captured when the first image line of a buffer is acquired.
- Allows line-scan applications to correlate image data with system events including motion encoder positions.
NOTE: Only available on selected line-scan firmware variants. Refer to release notes. |
| General Purpose Inputs and Outputs |
| Number of lines |
20 I/O lines:
- 4 differential inputs (DIN)
- 4 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs (TTLIO)
- 8 isolated inputs (IIN)
- 4 isolated outputs (IOUT)
NOTE: The number of I/O lines can be extended using I/O modules attached to the I/O EXTENSION connector. |
| Usage |
- Any I/O input lines can be used by any LIN tool of the I/O Toolbox
- Selected pairs of I/O input lines can be used by any QDC tool of the I/O toolbox to decode A/B signals of a motion encoder
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| Electrical specifications |
- DIN: High-speed differential inputs, up to 5 MHz, compatible with ANSI/EIA/TIA-422/485 differential line drivers and complementary TTL drivers
- TTLIO: High-speed 5V-compliant TTL inputs or LVTTL outputs, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers or LVTTL, TTL, 3V CMOS receivers
- IIN: Isolated current-sense inputs with wide voltage input range up to 30V, signaling up to 200 kHz, individual galvanic isolation up to 250VDC and 170 VAC, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers, RS-422 differential line drivers, potential free contacts, solid-state relays and opto-couplers
- IOUT: Isolated contact outputs compatible with 30V / 100mA loads
NOTE: IIN and IOUT lines provide a functional isolation grade for the circuit technical protection. It does not provide an isolation that can protect a human being from electrical shock! |
| Filter control |
- Glitch removal filter available on all System I/O input lines
- Configurable filter time constants:
- for DIN and TTLIO lines: 50 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns, 1 µs
- for IIN lines: 500 ns, 1 µs, 2 µs, 5 µs, 10 µs
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| Polarity control |
Yes |
| Power output |
Non-isolated, +12V, 1A, with electronic fuse protection |
| I/O Toolbox tools |
The I/O Toolbox is a configurable interconnection of tools that generates events (usually triggers):
- Line Input tool (LIN): edge detector delivering events on rising or falling edges of any selected input line.
- Quadrature Decoder tool (QDC): a composite tool including:
- A quadrature edge detector delivering events on selected transitions of selected pairs of input lines.
- An optional backward motion compensator for clean line-scan image acquisition when the motion is unstable.
- A 32-bit up/down counter for delivering a position value.
- User Actions Scheduler tool (UAS): to delegate the execution of 'User Actions' at a scheduled time or encoder position. Possible user actions include setting low/high/toggle any bit of the User Output Register or generation of any User Events.
- Delay tool (DEL): to delay up to 16 events from one or two I/O toolbox event sources, by a programmable time or number of motion encoder ticks (any QDC events).
- Divider tool (DIV): to generate an event every nth input events from any I/O toolbox event source.
- Multiplier/divider tool (MDV): to generate m events every d input events from any I/O toolbox event source.
- The 'Input Tools' (LIN, QDC and UAS) can be further processed by the 'Event Tools' (DEL, DIV and MDV) to generate any of the following "trigger" events:
- The "cycle trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller
- The "cycle sequence trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller
- The "start-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)
- The "end-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)
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| I/O Toolbox composition |
Determined by the selected firmware variant:
- '1-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 C2C
- '2-camera': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 C2C
- '1-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C
- '2-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 3 C2C
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| C2C-Link |
| Description |
- Accurate synchronization of the trigger and the start-of-exposure of multiple grabber-controlled area-scan cameras.
- Accurate synchronization of the start-of-cycle, start-of-scan and end-of-scan of multiple grabber-controlled line-scan cameras.
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| Specification |
- C2C-Link synchronizes cameras connected to:
- the same card
- to different cards in the same PC (requires an accessory cable such as the "3303 C2C-Link Ribbon Cable" or a custom-made C2C-Link cable)
- to different cards in different PCs (requires one "1636 InterPC C2C-Link Adapter" for each PC and one RJ 45 CAT 5 STP straight LAN cable for each adapter but the last one)
- Maximum distance:
- 60 cm inside a PC
- 1200 m cumulated adapter to adapter cable length
- Maximum trigger rate:
- 2.5 MHz for configurations using a single PC, or up to 10 PCs and 100 m total C2C-Link cable length
- 200 kHz for configurations up to 32 PCs and 1200m total C2C-Link cable length
- Trigger propagation delay from master to slave devices:
- Less than 10 ns for cameras on the same card or on different cards in the same PC
- Less than 265 ns for cameras on different cards in different PCs (3 PCs and 40m total C2C-Link cable length)
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| Software |
| Host PC Operating System |
- Microsoft Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 7 for x86-64 (64-bit) processor architecture
- Linux for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures
- macOS for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures
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| APIs |
- EGrabber class, with C++ and .NET APIs: .NET assembly designed to be used with development environments compatible with .NET frameworks version 4.0 or higher
- GenICam GenTL producer libraries compatible with C/C++ compilers:
- 'x86_64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86-64 (64-bit) applications
- 'aarch64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of AArch64 (64-bit) applications
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| Environmental conditions |
| 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 |
| Certifications |
| Electromagnetic - EMC standards |
- European Council EMC Directive 2014/30/EU
- United States FCC rule 47 CFR 15
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| EMC - Emission |
- EN 55032:2015 / CISPR 32:2012 Class B
- FCC 47 Part 15 Class B
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| EMC - Immunity |
- EN 55035:2017 / CISPR 35:2016
- EN 61000-6-2:2005 / IEC 61000-6-2:2016
- EN 61000-4-2:2009
- EN 61000-4-3:2006
- EN 61000-4-4:2004
- EN 61000-4-6:2014
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| KC Certification |
Korean Radio Waves Act, Article 58-2, Clause 3 |
| Flammability |
PCB compliant with UL 94 V-0 |
| RoHS |
European Union Directive 2015/863 (ROHS3) |
| REACH |
European Union Regulation 1907/2006 |
| WEEE |
Must be disposed of separately from normal household waste and must be recycled according to local regulations |
| Ordering Information |
| Product code - Description |
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| Optional accessories |
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