Frame grabber PIXCI ® EC1 for high speed cameras

The PIXCI® EC1 Camera Link board accepts data from a Camera Link cameras (200 fps, 250 fps, 300 fps and 400 fps) while providing exposure, reset and serial control. The EC1 frame grabber has two 26 pin connectors and supports a camera with the Base / Medium / Full configuration of the Camera Link specification. The EC1 transfers video data to notebook at up to 150 Megabytes per second.

The PIXCI® EC1 frame grabber supports Full, Medium and Base configuration Camera Link cameras and compatible with the ExpressCard/54 interface - the mobile PCI Express interface for notebook computers.

For EC1 frame grabber, which does not have on-board frame buffer memory, software architecture uses a fixed amount of frame buffer memory (no 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 EC1 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.

Specifications

• Full, Medium & Base Configuration Camera Link framegrabber
• Mobile PCI Express interface
• ExpressCard compatible
• Data rate up to 150 Megabyte/sec
• Line scan or area scan
• Camera frame rate sequence capture
• Triggered image sequence capture
• 64-Bit memory addressing
• Camera integration & async reset control
• Integration from microseconds to minutes

List of high speed cameras for EC1 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)