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-- Test & Measurement World, 4/1/2009 2:00:00 AM
Camera Link camera boasts 209 fps
Basler Vision Technologies claims that its A406k is the fastest 4-Mpixel Camera Link camera on the market, capable of operating at 209 fps at full resolution. The A406k achieves this high frame rate using a 10-tap, 85-MHz Camera Link configuration, transferring approximately 800 Mbytes/s, although this bandwidth limits the A406k to a maximum data depth of 8 bits.
Like other members of the A400 family, the A406k employs a CMOS sensor with a rolling shutter and is available in both monochrome and color versions. By using the supplied AOI (area of interest) list editor, users can change the size, position, and exposure time of a series of AOIs. www.baslerweb.com.
PCI Express frame grabber offers PoCL
The PIXCI EB1, a PCI Express x1 frame grabber from Epix, works with all area-scan and line-scan base-configuration Camera Link cameras and can be outfitted with a PoCL (Power over Camera Link) interface. The PIXCI EB1 offers low-latency, 250-Mbyte/s image transfer to a PCI Express bus x1 through x16 slot. The board safely supports PoCL cameras by detecting when a PoCL camera is connected and will disconnect power if it exceeds the specification.
The frame grabber comes with XCAP-Lite software and has camera-specific controls for most Camera Link cameras and generic controls for all other cameras. XCAP-Lite lets you load, view, and save images to and from files when the PIXCI EB1 is present. www.epixinc.com.
Pleora GigE SDK gains Linux option
With Version 3.0.0 of the iPORT Vision Suite for Linux, the iPORT SDK from Pleora Technologies now allows Linux-based GigE imaging programs to run on 64-bit architectures, effectively doubling the level of processing power available to Linux developers. Geoff MacGillivray, product manager at Pleora, explained that the Linux enhancement rounds out the company's offerings for 64-bit platforms, complementing support for Windows Vista and XP. www.pleora.com.
Sapera Essential gains improved color capability
Dalsa reports that it has improved the color capability of its Sapera Essential machine-vision software. The hardware-independent Sapera Essential combines board-level image acquisition and control with advanced image-processing capabilities; the latest version supports Windows 64-bit and the .Net interface.
With the introduction of the Sapera Essential Color Tool, the software supports RGB, YUV, HSV, and LAB formats for color conversions. Split and merge functions are also available for plane-by-plane processing. The software processes color images through basic operators such as thresholding, histogram, projections, statistics, clustering, and color reduction. A color-correction algorithm can compensate for different lighting conditions, and a color classifier can separate color regions of an image.
Sapera Essential offers features such as Blob analysis, area and shaped-based pattern matching, and optical character recognition. An evaluation copy (32 bit or 64 bit) is available from the company's Web site. www.dalsa.com.
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