International Robots and Vision Show 2003;
Design Automation Conference 2003
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 7/1/2003
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Robots and Vision Show: Products and beyond
International Robots and Vision Show, June 3–5, 2003, Rosemont, IL, robots-vision-show.info.
Advanced Illumination (www.advancedillumination.com) and Spectrum Illumination (www.spectrumillumination.com) announced an alliance to ensure accuracy and repeatability in machine-vision applications.... Edmund Industrial Optics (www.edmundoptics.com) and FLIR Systems (www.flirthermography.com) are teaming up to improve each company's ability to serve its customers' needs.
DVT (www.dvtsensors.com) is integrating its vision products into a line of industrial robots from Yamaha....Redlake (www.redlake.com) unveiled its MotionXra HG-100K high-speed, high-resolution camera....Point Grey (www.ptgrey.com) introduced its Scorpion digital camera.
The new CDC-200 from Cognex (www.cognex.com) extends the range of
vision applications with faster frame rates and global shuttering
capabilities.
Matrox
(www.matrox.com) introduced the Morphis board for standard video capture, as well as real-time JPEG2000 image compression/decompression....EPIX
(www.epixinc.com) showed the PIXCI CL3SD frame grabber coupled with a Basler
(www.basler-vc.com) A504k camera. The combination can capture high-resolution images at up to 500 frames/s, or lower-resolution images to 16,000 frames/s. The frame grabber operates in a Pentium III or 4 computer, capturing images in up to 4 Gbytes of onboard synchronous DRAM. Onboard memory captures data at the camera's full rate of 625 Mbytes/s.
DVT
introduced the industry's first color machine-vision sensors that contain a built-in spectrophotometer for enhanced color recognition and segmentation. The SpectroCam aims at demanding color applications where small color variations can mean the difference between pass and fail. The product learns the complete spectrum of a "good" target, after which it can detect even small variations.
Smart vision
Bitflow (www.bitflow.com) demonstrated its new R64-CL Camera Link interface board and new image-analysis and processing software, ImageWarp. Supported by a GUI file-editing utility (CamEd), this unit can completely control monochrome and color area-scan and line-scan cameras. At the show, Bitflow achieved seamless interfacing to seven Camera Link cameras across four R64-CL boards and two computers.
National Instruments (www.ni.com) announced the CVS-1454 Compact Vision System. The company claims that the new system makes cameras smarter by extending the power of LabView into low-cost, rugged machine-vision applications. The product features three IEEE 1394 (FireWire) ports for connectivity to a variety of image sensors including Sony and Basler cameras. Developers can choose the resolution and speed of the cameras to match their specific needs. In addition, the integrated architecture delivers 15 digital input lines, 14 digital output lines, and RS-232 and Ethernet connectivity to more than 20 of NI's FieldPoint family of distributed I/O measurement modules.
DAC addresses design, test
Design Automation Conference, June 2–6, 2003, Anaheim, CA, www.dac.com.
Synopsys (www.synopsys.com) introduced its Galaxy SI signal-integrity analysis tool....Oridus (www.oridus.com) demonstrated its SpaceCruiser Web-based collaboration software, which United Test & Assembly Center (www.utac.com.sg) has adopted to facilitate real-time engineering communication among its California and Singapore facilities....NPTest (www.nptest.com) showcased its Saber IC validation service for locating failures in first silicon....Synplicity (www.synplicity.com) demonstrated its implementation tools for the structured ASIC market....LSI Logic (www.lsilogic.com) described its use of Synplicity's Amplify product for physical synthesis of LSI Logic's RapidChip structured-ASIC platform....Random Logic (www.randomlogiccorp.com) introduced its QuickIND inductance-extraction tool....Advantest (www.advantest.com) demonstrated its CertiMAX silicon-validation system....Teseda (www.teseda.com) announced the creation of a design-for-test flow based on Teseda's Validator 500 engineering test system and Synopsys's DFT tools; Teseda also announced support for Mentor Graphics' (www.mentor.com) embedded deterministic test products....LogicVision demonstrated its SOC device and IP core characterization capabilities using its hierarchical embedded test and LV Validator test system....Cadence Design Systems (www.cadence.com) announced that it's donating to the IEEE a universal test-bench implementation for IEEE 1364-compliant Verilog simulators....The Sweden-based Socware Design Cluster (www.socware.com) announced a photonic network test-bed project that will be open to companies worldwide to help them develop and test communications products....ChipMD (www.chipmd.com) debuted, announcing its design-for-yield software....SynaptiCAD (www.synapticad.com) introduced version 9.0 of its DataSheet Pro, adding support for multiple timing diagrams....Syntest (www.syntest.com) and 3MTS (www.3mts.com) demonstrated the 3MTS Step-X platform for Syntest's VirtualScan DFT technology.
