Smart camera debuts

By Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 4/1/2007

Vision Components has introduced its VC4472 smart camera, which includes a 1.125-in. CCD sensor with a 1600x1200-pixel resolution and a maximum frame rate of 10 fps (20 fps in binning mode). Incorporating a 1-GHz, 8000-MIPS Texas Instruments DSP, the VC4472 features an 8-bit color overlay that can operate in opaque or transparent mode. The standard unit includes an RS-232 and an Ethernet interface, an external trigger input that enables jitter-free image recording, and a high-speed encoder interface. In addition, the smart cameras come with 4-Mbyte flash EPROM and 64-Mbyte SDRAM. Vision Components, www.vision-components.com.