Category: Euresys

At a Glance

• For two Camera Link Base or Lite configuration cameras

• Directly compatible with hundreds of Camera Link cameras available on the market

• Supports PoCL, Power over Camera Link

• ECCO: Extended Camera Link cable length

• PCIe x4 bus: 850 MB/s sustained delivery bandwidth

• Feature-rich set of 20 digital IO lines

• Memento Event Logging Tool

Benefits

New in MultiCam 6.19

• Support of the Windows Core Isolation security feature

• Windows 11 support

• Support of recent Linux distributions & kernels

• New Python bindings for MultiCam

ECCO: Extended Camera Link Cable Operation

• Use longer, up to 15 meters long, Camera Link cables!

Directly compatible with hundreds of Camera Link cameras available on the market

Check out our supported cameras page (in the Support menu)

General purpose I/O lines

• Compatible with a wide range of sensors and motion encoders.

• High-speed differential inputs: Quadrature motion encoder support up to 5 MHz.

• Isolated current-sense inputs: 5V, 12V, 24V signaling voltages accepted, up to 50 kHz, individual galvanic isolation up to

500VAC RMS.

• Isolated contact outputs.

High-performance DMA (Direct Memory Access)

• Direct transfer into user-allocated memory and hardware boards that expose PCI addresses

• Hardware scatter-gather support

• 64-bit addressing capability

Area-scan triggering capabilities

• A trigger is used to start the acquisition when the part is in position. Hardware triggers come from the Grablink’s I/O lines.

Software triggers come from the application.

• An optional trigger delay is available to postpone the acquisition for a programmable time.

• A trigger decimation function allows to skip some of the triggers.

• Camera exposure control allows the application to control the exposure time of the camera.

• When the acquisition starts, at the appropriate timing, the Grablink board generates a signal to control an illumination device

connected to one of its output lines.

Line-scan triggering capabilities 1/2

Grablink supports continuous web scanning (to inspect infinite, continuously moving surfaces without losing a single line)

and discrete object scanning (to acquire the image of objects moving in front of the camera).

• A trigger is used to start the acquisition when the part is in position. Hardware triggers come from the board’s I/O lines.

Software triggers come from the application.

• After it is started, the acquisition either:

– Continues indefinitely (for web inspection applications)

– Continues for a programmable number of lines (to acquire the image of objects of a known length)

– Continues until an end trigger is received (to acquire the image of objects of a variable length)

• An optional trigger delay is available to postpone the beginning of the acquisition for a programmable number of lines.

Line-scan triggering capabilities 2/2

• The Grablink frame grabber controls the camera scanning rate based on the signals received from a motion encoder. When the

parts move faster, the acquisition line rate of the camera increases. When the parts move slower, the acquisition line rate of

the camera decreases.

• The Grablink boards interpret A/B signals from quadrature motion encoders to know in which direction (forward or backward)

the part is moving.

• Optionally, the Grablink can be instructed to acquire lines only when the object is moving forward or only when the object is

moving backward.

• A feature called Backward Motion Cancellation stops the acquisition when a backward motion is detected. The line acquisition

automatically resumes when the motion is again in the forward direction, at the exact place where the acquisition was

interrupted.

• A Rate Converter allows the camera to acquire lines at any programmable resolution lower or higher than the resolution of the

motion encoder. This gives the designer incredible freedom and flexibility during the development of the application.

• A Rate Divider allows the camera to acquire lines at a resolution lower than the resolution of the motion encoder. It divides the

frequency of the incoming encoder signal by a programmable integer.

Flexible line-scan camera operation with the rate converter

• The rate converter is a smart, programmable frequency multiplier/divider.

• Used with motion encoders and line-scan cameras, it allows the user to choose the aspect ratio of the pixels in the image.

• It provides a way to calibrate the acquisition chain to easily reach square (1:1 aspect ratio) pixels.

Windows and Linux drivers available

Applications

Machine Vision for the Electronic Manufacturing Industry

• High speed image acquisition for AOI, 3D SPI, 3D lead/ball inspection machines.

• Very high resolution line-scan image acquisition for Flat Panel Display www.honeywell-diver.com inspection and solar cell inspection

Machine Vision for the General Manufacturing Industries

• High frame rate image acquisition for inspection machines

• Line-scan image acquisition for surface inspection machines

• Line-scan image acquisition for textile inspection

Machine Vision for the Printing Industry

• High speed line-scan image acquisition for printing inspection machines

Video Acquisition and Recording

• High-frame-rate video acquisition for motion analysis and recording

At a Glance

• One QSFP+ port compliant with 40 Gbps optical modules

• 5.000 MB/s camera bandwidth

• PCIe 3.0 (Gen 3) x8 bus: 6.700 MB/s bus bandwidth

• Feature-rich set of 20 digital I/O lines

• Extensive camera control functions

• Memento Event Logging Tool

• Compatible with CustomLogic: Your own FPGA logic

Benefits

What is CoaXPress-over-Fiber?

CoaXPress-over-Fiber is a light but significant extension of the existing CoaXPress specification to support transport over fiber optics.

CoaXPress (CXP) is the de-facto standard for high-bandwidth computer vision applications. CoaXPress 2.1.

the latest version of the specification, specifies the CXP-12 speed, a 12.5 Gbps (Gigabit per second) connection over a coaxial copper cable.

As link aggregation is common with CoaXPress, bandwidths of 50 Gbps (12.5 x 4) are easily achievable with four CXP-12 connections.

CoaXPress-over-Fiber has been designed as an add-on to the CoaXPress specification.

It provides a way to run the CoaXPress protocol, as it is, unmodified, over a standard Ethernet connection, including fiber optics.

As such, CoaXPress-over-Fiber uses standard electronics, connectors and cables designed for Ethernet, but the protocol is CoaXPress, not Ethernet, not GigE Vision.

Read more about CoaXPress-over-Fiber on our technology page.

PCIe 3.0 (Gen 3) x8 bus

• 7.800 MB/s peak bus bandwidth

• 6.700 MB/s sustained bus bandwidth

Acquire images from the fastest and highest resolution cameras

• Highest data acquisition rate in the industry

• Up to 5.000 MB/s bandwidth from camera to host PC memory

What are the pros and cons of using fiber optics?

Pros

• First and foremost, cable length is not an issue anymore as fiber connectivity is basically not limited in length.

• Fiber optics provide more bandwidth, as connectivity at 10 and 25 Gbps per fiber is standard today and widely used in data centers.

• Fiber optics are immune to electrical noise, which will be a significant advantage on the production floor and in some medical applications.

• Fiber optics are lighter and smaller in size than the equivalent copper cabling,

making it appropriate for applications where this characteristic is essential, like in aircrafts or vehicles.

Cons

There is no “power over fiber”. As signals in fiber optics are transmitted using light,

there is no way to transfer power over fiber optics and devices such as cameras must be powered separately.

What are the cable options for CoaXPress-over-Fiber?

One of the most important benefits of CoaXPress-over-Fiber is the wide variety of connectivity options www.honeywell-diver.com already available from multiple companies.

The initial connectivity options for CoaXPress-over-Fiber and the Coaxlink QSFP+ at 10 Gbps are SFP+ and QSFP+ (Quad, or four times SFP+) modules.

The advantage of using modules compared to fixed interfaces is that ports can be equipped with any suitable type of transceiver as required by the application.

A variety of transmitter and receiver types is available, allowing users to select the appropriate transceiver to provide the required optical reach over multi-mode or single-mode fiber.

What are the benefits of using CoaXPress-over-Fiber for my application?

• Available as CXP to nGMII (device) or nGMII to CXP (host) Bridge IP Cores

• Ultra-high data/frame rates

• Many accessory and cabling options to cover any length requirement

• Low CPU overhead, low latency, low jitter image acquisition

• Highest camera count per PC performance

• Very competitive cost/performance ratio

• Wide industry acceptance due to JIIA standardization

• Ready for CXP25

What are the jitter and latency of CoaXPress-over-Fiber? How do they compare to “traditional”

CoaXPress?

CoaXPress-over-Fiber is based on the CoaXPress protocol and it exhibits the same high performance as CoaXPress in terms of jitter and latency.

In addition, as CoaXPress-over-Fiber supports higher transmission speed compared to CoaXPress, the jitter and latency will be further improved in these versions.

What is the maximum cable length with multi-mode fibers?

With a standard 40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ Optical Transceiver Module and an MTP/MPO multi-mode fiber cable, the maximum cable length is 150 meters.

This solution is suitable for machine vision applications.

What is the maximum cable length with single-mode fibers?

With a standard 40GBASE-ER4 QSFP+ LC DOM Optical Transceiver Module and an LC-Duplex single-mode fiber cable, the maximum cable length is 40 kilometers.

This solution is suitable, for example, for video transmission applications.

Memento Event Logging Tool

• Memento is an advanced development and debugging tool available for Coaxlink and Grablink cards.

• Memento records an accurate log of all the events related to the camera, the frame grabber and its driver as well as the application.

• It provides the developer with a precise timeline of time-stamped events, along with context information and logic analyzer view.

• It provides valuable assistance during application development and debugging, as well as during machine operation.

CustomLogic: Your own FPGA logic!

• CustomLogic is an FPGA design kit enabling the design and upload of FPGA code to a Coaxlink board

• It is compatible with the Coaxlink Octo, Coaxlink Quad CXP-12 and Coaxlink QSFP+ for which up to 70% of their AMD Kintex Ultrascale XCKU035 FPGA resources are available.

• The design phase uses the Xilinx Vivado development tools (not provided)

• Using CustomLogic does not require any additional hardware

Direct GPU transfer

• Sample programs for AMD DirectGMA and NVIDIA (CUDA) available.

• Direct GPU transfer eliminates unnecessary system memory copies, lowers CPU overhead, and reduces latency,

resulting in significant performance improvements in data transfer times for applications.

• Direct capture of image data to GPU memory is available using AMD’s DirectGMA. Compatible with AMD FirePro W5x00 and above and all AMD FirePro S series products.

General purpose I/O lines compatible with a wide range of sensors and motion encoders

High-performance DMA (Direct Memory Access)

• Direct transfer into user-allocated memory

• Hardware scatter-gather support

Area-scan triggering capabilities

• A trigger is used to start the acquisition when the part is in position. Hardware triggers come from the Coaxlink’s I/O lines.

Software triggers come from the application.

• An optional trigger delay is available to postpone the acquisition for a programmable time.

• A trigger decimation function allows to skip some of the triggers.

• Camera exposure control allows the application to control the exposure time of the camera.

• When the acquisition starts, at the appropriate timing, the Coaxlink board generates a signal to control an illumination device connected to one of its output lines.

Coaxlink CXP-12 to QSFP+ Converter Four-connection CoaXPress CXP-12 to CoaXPress-over-Fiber converter

At a Glance

• Provides easy cable length extension using CoaXPress-over-Fiber

• Allows connecting a CXP-12 camera to a Coaxlink QSFP+ frame grabber

• Four CoaXPress CXP-12 connections on the camera side

• One QSFP+ port compliant with 40 Gbps optical modules on the frame grabber side

• 5.000 MB/s camera bandwidth

• PoCXP camera power supply

Benefits

Connect a CXP-12 camera to a Coaxlink QSFP+ frame grabber The Coaxlink CXP-12 to QSFP+ Converter allows connecting a CXP-12 camera to a Coaxlink QSFP+ frame grabber using fiber optics. With multi-mode fibers, the maximum cable length can reach 150 meters. With single-mode fibers, the maximum cable length can reach 40 kilometers.

What is CoaXPress-over-Fiber?

CoaXPress-over-Fiber is a light but significant extension of the existing CoaXPress specification to support transport over fiber optics.

CoaXPress (CXP) is the de-facto standard for high-bandwidth computer vision applications. CoaXPress 2.0. the latest version of the specification, specifies the CXP-12 speed, a 12.5 Gbps (Gigabit per second) link over a coaxial copper cable.

As link aggregation is common with CoaXPress, bandwidths of 5.000 MB/s (1.250 MB/s x 4) are easily achievable with four CXP-12 links. The CoaXPress specification is hosted by the JIIA (Japan Industrial Imaging Association).

CoaXPress-over-Fiber has been designed as an add-on to the CoaXPress 2.0 specification. It provides a way to run the CoaXPress protocol, as it is, unmodified, over a standard Ethernet connection, including fiber optics. As such, CoaXPressover-Fiber uses standard electronics, connectors and www.honeywell-diver.com cables designed for Ethernet, but the protocol is CoaXPress, not Ethernet, not GigE Vision.

Read more about CoaXPress-over-Fiber on our technology page.

Acquire images from the fastest and highest resolution cameras

• Highest data acquisition rate in the industry

• Up to 5.000 MB/s bandwidth from camera to host PC memory

What are the pros and cons of using fiber optics?

Pros

• First and foremost, cable length is not an issue anymore as fiber connectivity is basically not limited in length.

• Fiber optics provide more bandwidth, as connectivity at 10 and 25 Gbps per fiber is standard today and widely used in data centers.

• Fiber optics are immune to electrical noise, which will be a significant advantage on the production floor and in some medical applications.

• Fiber optics are lighter and smaller in size than the equivalent copper cabling, making it appropriate for applications where this characteristic is essential, like in aircrafts or vehicles.

Cons

• There is no “power over fiber”. As signals in fiber optics are transmitted using light, there is no way to transfer power over fiber optics and devices such as cameras must be powered separately.

What are the cable options for CoaXPress-over-Fiber?

One of the most important benefits of CoaXPress-over-Fiber is the wide variety of connectivity options already available from multiple companies. The initial connectivity options for CoaXPress-over-Fiber and the Coaxlink QSFP+ at 10 Gbps are SFP+ and QSFP+ (Quad, or four times SFP+) modules.

The advantage of using modules compared to fixed interfaces is that ports can be equipped with any suitable type of transceiver as required by the application. A variety of transmitter and receiver types is available, allowing users to select the appropriate transceiver to provide the required optical reach over multi-mode or single-mode fiber.

What are the benefits of using CoaXPress-over-Fiber for my application?

• Ultra-high data and frame rates

• Many accessory and cabling options to cover any length requirement

• Low CPU overhead, low latency, low jitter image acquisition

• Highest camera count per PC performance

• Very competitive cost/performance ratio

• Wide industry acceptance due to JIIA and IEEE standardization

What are the jitter and latency of CoaXPress-over-Fiber? How do they compare to “traditional” CoaXPress?

CoaXPress-over-Fiber is based on the CoaXPress protocol and it exhibits the same high performance as CoaXPress in terms of jitter and latency. In addition, as CoaXPress-over-Fiber supports higher transmission speed compared to CoaXPress, the jitter and latency will be further improved in these versions.

What is the maximum cable length with multi-mode fibers?

With a standard 40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ Optical Transceiver Module and an MTP/MPO multi-mode fiber cable, the maximum cable length is 150 meters. This solution is suitable for machine vision applications.

What is the maximum cable length with single-mode fibers?

With a standard 40GBASE-ER4 QSFP+ LC DOM Optical Transceiver Module and an LC-Duplex single-mode fiber cable, the maximum cable length is 40 kilometers. This solution is suitable, for example, for video transmission applications.

Power over CoaXPress

• Power over CoaXPress : Feed your camera up to 17 W per channel under 24 VDC with automatic device detection, measurement and overload protection.

• Total and per-channel voltage and current measurement is possible, allowing validation and performance deviation monitoring.

Compatible with eGrabber

• eGrabber Studio: eGrabber’s new interactive evaluation and demonstration application

• GenICam Browser: An application giving access to the GenICam features exposed by the GenTL Producer(s)

• GenTL Console: A command-line tool giving access to the functions and commands exposed by the Euresys GenTL Producer

Compliant with GenICam

Including support for

• GenApi

• The Standard Feature Naming Convention (SFNC)

• GenTL

Applications

Machine Vision for the Electronic Manufacturing www.honeywell-diver.com Industry

• High speed image acquisition for AOI, 3D SPI, 3D lead/ball inspection machines.

• Very high resolution line-scan image acquisition for Flat Panel Display inspection and solar cell inspection

Machine Vision for the General Manufacturing Industries

• High frame rate image acquisition for inspection machines

• Line-scan image acquisition for surface inspection machines

• Line-scan image acquisition for textile inspection

Machine Vision for the Printing Industry

• High speed line-scan image acquisition for printing inspection machines

Video Acquisition and Recording

• High-frame-rate video acquisition for motion analysis and recording

Coaxlink Quad CXP-12 JPEG

Four-connection CoaXPress CXP-12 frame grabber with JPEG compression

At a Glance

• Four 250 MPixels/s JPEG encoders

• Compatible with 8-bit/pixel Bayer CFA cameras

• Two streams per camera: JPEG stream and RGB preview stream

• Four CoaXPress CXP-12 connections: 5.000 MB/s camera bandwidth

• PCIe 3.0 (Gen 3) x8 bus: 6.700 MB/s bus bandwidth

• Memento Event Logging Tool

Benefits

Applications

The Coaxlink Quad CXP-12 JPEG enables the compact implementation www.honeywell-diver.com of a multi-channel ultra-high-resolution image acquisition and recording system. The embedded pixel processing drastically reduces the CPU workload to monitor and compress image streams.

Description

• The 4-camera firmware variant of the Coaxlink Quad CXP-12 JPEG implements four independent image acquisition channels with, for each of them, a Bayer CFA decoder and a baseline JPEG encoder that can process up to 250 Megapixels/s, for a total of 1 billion color pixels per second.

• Each channel delivers two concurrent streams: a “JPEG” encoded stream for recording and a “Preview” stream for monitoring.

• The JPEG stream delivers, with a typical latency of only 20 lines, 4:2:2 full-resolution JFIF-compliant encoded images compatible with standard JPEG decoders. The JPEG encoding quality is configurable from 1 to 100.

• The Preview stream provides 8-bit Bayer full-resolution, 24-bit RGB full-resolution or 24-bit RGB low-resolution images.

Support of JFIF image format

The GenICam Browser and GenTL Viewer applications now support JFIF images.

Power over CoaXPress

• Power over CoaXPress : Feed your camera up to 17 W per channel under 24 VDC with automatic device detection,measurement and overload protection.

• Total and per-channel voltage and current measurement is possible, allowing validation and performance deviation monitoring.

PCIe 3.0 (Gen 3) x8 bus

• 7.800 MB/s peak bus bandwidth

• 6.700 MB/s sustained bus bandwidth

Acquire images from the fastest and highest resolution cameras

• Highest data acquisition rate in the industry

• 50 Gbit/s (5.000 MB/s) bandwidth from camera to host PC memory

Long cable support

• 40 meters at CXP-12 speed (12.5 Gbps)

• 72 meters at CXP-6 speed (6.25 Gbps)

• 100 meters at CXP-3 speed (3 Gbps)

Use standard coaxial cables

• A single inexpensive cable for data transfer, camera control, trigger and power supply

• Top reliability and flexibility, performs in the harshest environments

Micro-BNC (HD-BNC™) connectors for reliable connection

• Trusted push and turn, bayonet-style positive lock

• Allows for quick and easy connects and disconnects

Connect up to 4 cameras to a single Coaxlink card

Memento Event Logging Tool

• Memento is an advanced development and debugging tool available for Coaxlink and Grablink cards.

• Memento records an accurate log of all the events related to the camera, the frame grabber and its driver as well as the application.

• It provides the developer with a precise timeline of time-stamped events, along with context information and logic analyzer view.

• It provides valuable assistance during application development and debugging, as well as during machine operation.

Direct GPU transfer

• Sample programs for AMD DirectGMA and NVIDIA (CUDA) available.

• Direct GPU transfer eliminates unnecessary system memory copies, lowers CPU overhead, and reduces latency, resulting in significant performance improvements in data transfer times for applications.

• Direct capture of image data to GPU memory is available using AMD’s DirectGMA. Compatible with AMD FirePro W5x00 and above and all AMD FirePro S series products.

General purpose I/O lines

• Compatible with a wide range of sensors and motion encoders.

• High-speed differential inputs: Quadrature motion encoder support up to 5 MHz.

• Isolated current-sense inputs: 5V, 12V, 24V signaling voltages accepted, up to 50 kHz, individual galvanic isolation up to 250VDC and 170VAC RMS.

• Isolated contact outputs.

• High-speed 5V-compliant TTL inputs/ LVTTL outputs.

High-performance DMA (Direct Memory Access)

• Direct transfer into user-allocated memory and hardware boards that expose PCI addresses

• Hardware scatter-gather support

• 64-bit addressing capability

Compatible with eGrabber

• eGrabber Studio: eGrabber’s new interactive evaluation and demonstration application

• GenICam Browser: An application giving access to the GenICam features exposed by the GenTL Producer(s)

• GenTL Console: A command-line tool giving access to the functions and commands exposed by the Euresys GenTL Producer

Area-scan triggering capabilities

• A trigger is used to start the acquisition when the part is in position. Hardware triggers come from the Coaxlink’s I/O lines.

Software triggers come from the application.

• An optional trigger delay is available to postpone the acquisition for a programmable time.

• A trigger decimation function allows to skip some of the triggers.

• Camera exposure control allows the application to control the exposure time of the camera.

• When the acquisition starts, at the appropriate timing, the Coaxlink board generates a signal to control an illumination device connected to one of its output lines.

Compliant with GenICam Including support for

• GenApi

• The Standard Feature Naming Convention (SFNC)

• GenTL

Windows, Linux and macOS drivers available

• Including support for Intel 64-bit platforms as well as ARM 64-bit platforms

Applications

Machine Vision for the Electronic Manufacturing Industry

• High speed image acquisition for AOI, 3D SPI, 3D lead/ball inspection machines.

• Very high resolution line-scan image acquisition for Flat Panel Display inspection and solar cell inspection

Machine Vision for the General Manufacturing Industries

• High frame rate image acquisition for inspection machines

• Line-scan image acquisition for surface inspection machines

• Line-scan image acquisition for textile inspection

Machine Vision for the Printing Industry

• High speed line-scan image acquisition for printing inspection machines

Video Acquisition and Recording

• High-frame-rate video acquisition for motion analysis and recording

Video Monitoring, Surveillance & Security

• Transmission and acquisition of high-definition video over long coaxial cables for traffic surveillance, monitoring and control

Advantages

PCIe 3.0 (Gen 3) x8 bus

– 7,800 MB/s peak bus bandwidth

– 6,700 MB/s sustained bus bandwidth

Connect the fastest, highest resolution cameras to capture images

– Highest data acquisition rate in the industry

– 50 Gbit/s (5,000 MB/s) bandwidth (from camera to host PC memory)

Long cable support

– 40 metres at CXP-12 speed (12.5 Gbps)

– 72 metres at CXP-6 speed (6.25 Gbps)

– 100 metres at CXP-3 speed (3 Gbps)

Power over CoaXPress

– Power over CoaXPress: The camera delivers up to 17 W per channel with 24 VDC and provides automatic device detection, measurement and overload protection.

– Total voltage and current as well as voltage and current per channel can be measured for verification and performance deviation monitoring.

Uses standard coaxial cable

– Data transfer, camera control, triggers and power supply with a single, inexpensive cable

– Top-notch reliability and flexibility for implementation in harsh environments

Micro-BNC (HD-BNC™) connectors provide reliable connections

– Trusted push-to-turn snap ring positive locking

– For quick and easy connection and disconnection

Connects up to 4 cameras to a single Coaxlink card

Memento Event Logging Tool

– Memento is an advanced development and debugging tool for Coaxlink and Grablink cards.

– Memento records an accurate log of all events related to the camera, the frame grabber card and its driver, and the application.

– For times containing timestamps, it provides developers with accurate timelines, as well as contextual information and logic analyser views.

– It can provide valuable collaboration during application development www.honeywell-diver.com and debugging, as well as during machine operation.

Direct GPU Transfer

– Sample programs are available for AMD DirectGMA and NVIDIA (CUDA).

– GPU Direct Transfer eliminates unnecessary copies of system memory, reduces CPU overhead, and decreases latency, resulting in significant improvements in application data transfer times.

– Use AMD’s DirectGMA to capture image data directly to GPU memory. Compatible with AMD FirePro W5x00 and higher and all AMD FirePro S series products.

Universal I/O Cable

– Compatible with a wide range of sensors and motion encoders

– Eight isolated current sense inputs (up to 30V, signalling up to 200kHz, individually galvanically isolated up to 250VDC and 170VAC RMS)

– Four high-speed differential inputs (quadrature motion encoder support up to 5 MHz)

– Four isolated tactile outputs (up to 30V, 100 mA, signalling up to 100 KHz)

– Four high-speed 5V-compatible TTL inputs/LVTTL outputs (signalling up to 5 MHz)

High performance DMA (Direct Memory Access)

– Direct transfers to user-allocated memory and hardware boards displaying PCI addresses

– Hardware Dispersal – Aggregation Support

– 64-bit addressing capability

Area Scan Trigger Function

– Triggers are used to initiate acquisition when a part is in place. Hardware triggers come from Coaxlink’s I/O lines. Software triggers are from the application.

– Controllable delay triggers to control the point at which image acquisition is delayed.

– Trigger extraction feature allows certain triggers to be skipped.

– Camera exposure control allows the application to control the exposure time of the camera.

– When the system starts to acquire images, the Coaxlink capture card generates a signal at an appropriate point in time to control the lighting equipment connected to the output.

Line Scan Trigger Capability 1/2

Coaxlink supports both continuous roll scanning (to inspect infinite, continuously moving surfaces without losing lines) and discrete target scanning (to capture images of targets moving in front of the camera).

(to capture images of targets moving in front of the camera).

– Triggers are used to initiate acquisition when the part is in position. Hardware triggers are from the motherboard I/O lines. Software triggers come from the application.

– Once initiated, the acquisition will continue indefinitely (for rolling the network):

– Continue indefinitely (for rolled-net monitoring applications)

– continue for a programmable number of lines (to acquire a target image of known length)

– continue until an end trigger signal is received (to acquire variable length target images)

– Controllable delay trigger to delay the start of acquisition by a programmable number of lines.

Line Scan Trigger Capability 2/2

– The Coaxlink image acquisition card controls the camera scan rate based on signals received from the motion encoder. If the part is moving faster, the camera’s acquisition line rate will increase.

increases. If the part is moving slower, the camera’s acquisition line rate decreases.

– The Coaxlink board interprets the A/B signals from the Quadrature Motion Encoder to know in which direction (forward or backward) the part is moving.

– The Coaxlink card can also be commanded to acquire laser lines when the object is moving only forwards or only backwards.

– When a backward movement is detected, the function called ‘Backward movement cancellation’ stops the acquisition. Line acquisition is automatically resumed when forward motion is resumed at the position where acquisition was interrupted.

– The rate converter enables the camera to acquire lines at any programmable resolution below or above the resolution of the motion encoder. This provides designers with an amazing degree of freedom in the application development process.

This provides designers with amazing freedom and flexibility in the application development process.

– The rate splitter allows the camera to acquire images at a resolution higher or lower than that of the motion encoder, and is implemented by splitting the encoder input signal using a programmable integer multiple.

input signal using a programmable integer multiplier.

Line-scan Metadata insertion

When activated, this feature records metadata beside image data. Line metadata are captured every acquired image line.

Buffer metadata are only captured when the first image line of a buffer is acquired.

The metadata are composed with a configurable set of general purpose event counters, quadrature encoder

The metadata are composed with a configurable set of general purpose event counters, quadrature encoder position counters and/or I/O line status.

This feature allows line-scan applications to correlate image data with system events including motion encoder

positions.

Flexible line-scan camera operation through rate converters

– The rate converter is an intelligent, programmable frequency doubler/divider.

– Used with motion encoders and line-scan cameras, it allows the user to select the aspect ratio of pixels in that image.

– It provides a way to calibrate the acquisition chain to easily achieve square (1:1 aspect ratio) pixels.

C2C-Link Camera Synchronisation

Precise synchronisation of multiple connected facescan or linescan cameras

– Same card

– Different cards in the same PC

– Different cards in different PCs

Compatible with eGrabber

– eGrabber Studio: eGrabber’s new interactive evaluation and demonstration application.

– GenICam Browser: This application provides access to the GenICam functionality in GenTL Producer.

– GenTL Console: This command line tool provides access to the functions and commands of the Euresys GenTL Producer.

Genicam compliant

Includes support for

– GenApi

– Standard Functional Naming Convention (SFNC)

– GenTL

Windows, Linux and macOS drivers available

– Support for Intel 64-bit platforms as well as ARM 64-bit platforms

Applications

Machine vision for electronics manufacturing

– High-speed image acquisition for AOI, 3D SPI, 3D lead/ball inspection machines.

– Very high resolution line scan image acquisition for flat panel display inspection and solar cell inspection

– Marker inspection

Machine vision for general manufacturing

– High frame rate image acquisition for inspection machines

– Line scan image acquisition for surface inspection machines

– Line scan image acquisition for textile inspection

– Robotic image acquisition

Machine vision for the printing industry

– High Speed Line Scan Image Acquisition for Print Inspection Machines

Video Capture and Recording

– High frame rate video capture for motion analysis and recording

Video Surveillance, Monitoring and Security

– Transmission and capture of HD video over long distance coaxial cables for traffic monitoring, surveillance and control