Grablink DuoFrame grabber for one full- or two base-configuration Camera Link cameras - For two independent Camera Link Base configuration cameras
- For one Camera Link Base, Medium, Full, 72-bit or 80-bit camera
- Directly compatible with hundreds of Camera Link cameras available on the market
- PoCL, Power over Camera Link
- ECCO: Extended Camera Link cable length
- PCIe Gen 2 x4 bus
- Feature-rich set of 20 digital IO lines
- Compatible with eGrabber Driver
- Compatible with Memento Event Logging Tool
SpecificationsMechanical- Form factor
PCI Express card - 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 card bracket: 26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket with M2 jack socket screws Camera Link camera A input, PoCL output 'B' on card bracket: 26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket with M2 jack socket screws Camera Link camera B input or camera A second cable input, PoCL output 'EXTERNAL I/O' on card bracket: 26-pin 3-row high-density D-Sub female socket with UNC4-40 jack socket screws I/O lines and I/O power output 'INTERNAL I/O 1' on printed circuit board: 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding I/O lines and I/O power output 'INTERNAL I/O 2' on printed circuit board: 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding I/O lines and I/O power output 'I/O EXTENSION' on printed circuit board: 26-pin 2-row 0.05" pitch pin header with shrouding I/O extension cable socket 'C2C-LINK' on printed circuit board: 6-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding Card-to-card link 'AUXILIARY POWER INPUT' on printed circuit board: 6-pin PEG power socket 12 V DC power input for PoCL and I/O power output - LED indicators
'A', 'B' on bracket: Bi-color red/green LEDs Camera Link status indicator - Switches
'RECOVERY' on PCB: 3-pin 1-row 0.1" header or 2-way DIP switch Firmware emergency recovery - Dimensions
PCB L x H: 167.65 mm x 111.15 mm [6.6 in x 4.38 in] - Weight
Net weight: 167 g [5.9 oz] Gross weight: 272 g [9.6 oz]
Host bus- Link width
4 lanes 1 lane or 2 lanes with reduced performance - Link speed
5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0) 2.5 GT/s (PCIe 1.0) with reduced performance - 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- Camera interface standard
Camera Link - 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 - Maximum number of cameras
2 - Line-scan cameras supported
Yes - 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 - 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 - Camera types
Area-scan cameras: Grayscale and color (RGB and Bayer CFA) Line-scan cameras: Grayscale and color RGB - 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
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. - Strobe
Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed 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. Support of infinite acquisition, without missing line, for web inspection applications. - 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 - Line strobe
Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.
On-board processing- Image data stream processing
Unpacking of 10-/12-/14-bit to 16-bit with selectable justification to LSb or MSb - 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 - 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 - 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
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 - 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 - 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) - 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
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. - 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)
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 - 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 - Supported Memento event categories
Yes
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 - EMC - Emission
EN 55032:2015 / CISPR 32:2012 Class B FCC 47 Part 15 Class B - 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 - 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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