Frame grabber PIXCI ® EB1 for high speed cameras

The PIXCI® EB1 Camera Link board accepts data from a Camera Link cameras (200 fps, 250 fps, 300 fps, 400 fps and 500 fps) while providing exposure, reset and serial control. The EB1 frame grabber has one 26 pin connector and supports a camera with the Base configuration of the Camera Link specification. The EB1 transfers video data to the PCI-Express bus at up to 175 Megabytes per second.

The PIXCI® EB1 frame grabber supports Base configuration Camera Link cameras. Compatible with the PCI-Express x1 (by one) bus, the EB1 frame grabber interfaces to more than 100 of the newest, most advanced, highest bandwidth machine vision cameras available.

For EB1 frame grabber, which does not have on-board frame buffer memory, software architecture uses a fixed amount of frame buffer memory (it dooesn't have Scatter/Gather engine). Under Windows-2000/XP the frame buffer memory is allocated when Windows boots; the total size is fixed until the next reboot. Default value for the entire image frame buffer memory is 16384 Kbytes (image buffer could not exceed 1 Gbyte size). Under Linux, the frame buffer memory is allocated when Linux boots; the total size is fixed until the next reboot.

Video capture and camera control

The EB1 has a programmable video capture window to allow capture of less than the entire image from the camera. The user can select a minimum of 1 line of 8 pixels or select up to the entire image array from the camera. A camera control circuit specific to the timing requirements of the attached camera provide camera reset, exposure control and a strobe output. A trigger input allows the circuit to respond to external events. Camera integration can be programmed from microseconds to minutes.

Video display

Images are displayed using the host computer's VGA adapter and monitor or LCD screen. Display resolution is a function of these devices. An XCAP software look-up-table allows display of 8 bits of pixel data from the pixel depth of the camera, which may be up to 16 bits. An Advanced Graphics Port VGA allows live update of images on the VGA.

Specifications

• Base CameraLink or PoCL framegrabber
• PCI Express x1 bus
• Data rate up to 175 Megabyte/sec
• Line scan or area scan
• Camera frame rate sequence capture
• Triggered image sequence capture
• Camera integration and async reset control

List of high speed cameras for EB1 framegrabber

• VGA high speed CMOS camera Fastvideo-200 (640x480, 10 bit, 200 fps)
• VGA high speed CMOS camera Fastvideo-250 (640x480, 10 bit, 250 fps)
• VGA high speed CMOS camera Fastvideo-300 (640x480, 10 bit, 300 fps)
• VGA high speed CMOS camera Fastvideo-400 (640x480, 8 bit, 400 fps)
• VGA high speed CMOS camera Fastvideo-500 (640x480, 8 bit, 500 fps)