- For two independent Camera Link Base configuration cameras
- For one Camera Link Base, Medium, Full, 72-bit or 80-bit camera
- Directly compatible with hundreds of Camera Link cameras available on the market
- PoCL, Power over Camera Link
- ECCO: Extended Camera Link cable length
- PCIe Gen 2 x4 bus
- Feature-rich set of 20 digital IO lines
- Support of GenCP (Generic Control Protocol)
- Compatible with eGrabber Driver
- Compatible with Memento Event Logging Tool
ECCO: Extended Camera Link Cable Operation
Use longer, up to 15 meters long, Camera Link cables!
Line-Scan Triggering Capabilities
Allied Vision frame grabbers offer many capabilities to synchronize line-scan or 1D cameras, sensors and lighting controllers. Frame grabbers can control the camera scanning rate based on the signals received from a motion encoder.
They support 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).
Area-Scan Triggering Capabilities
Allied Vision frame grabbers offer many capabilities to synchronize area-scan or 2D cameras, sensors and lighting controllers, for stationery or moving objects in the field of view, or moving cameras.
Benefits
Compatible With eGrabber
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- 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
Memento Event Logging Tool
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- 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.
C2C-Link Camera Synchronization
Allows to accurately synchronize multiple area-scan or line-scan cameras connected
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- to the same card
- to different cards in the same PC
- to different cards in different PCs
Compliant With GenICam
High-Performance DMA (Direct Memory Access)
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- Direct transfer into user-allocated memory
- Hardware scatter-gather support
Windows, Linux, And macOS Drivers Available
Including support for Intel 64-bit platforms as well as ARM 64-bit platforms.
General Purpose I/O Lines
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- 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.
Flexible Line-Scan Camera Operation With The Rate Converter
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- 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.
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 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.
eGrabber
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Mechanical
- Form factor
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PCI Express card
- Format
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Standard profile, half length, 4-lane PCI Express card
- Cooling method
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Air cooling, fan-cooled heatsink
- Mounting
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For insertion in a standard height, 4-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot
- Connectors
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'A' on card bracket:
26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket with M2 jack socket screws
Camera Link camera A input, PoCL output
'B' on card bracket:
26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket with M2 jack socket screws
Camera Link camera B input or camera A second cable input, PoCL output
'EXTERNAL I/O' on card bracket:
26-pin 3-row high-density D-Sub female socket with UNC4-40 jack socket screws
I/O lines and I/O power output
'INTERNAL I/O 1' on printed circuit board:
26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding
I/O lines and I/O power output
'INTERNAL I/O 2' on printed circuit board:
26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding
I/O lines and I/O power output
'I/O EXTENSION' on printed circuit board:
26-pin 2-row 0.05" pitch pin header with shrouding
I/O extension cable socket
'C2C-LINK' on printed circuit board:
6-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding
Card-to-card link
'AUXILIARY POWER INPUT' on printed circuit board:
6-pin PEG power socket
12 V DC power input for PoCL and I/O power output
- LED indicators
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'A', 'B' on bracket:
Bi-color red/green LEDs
Camera Link status indicator
- Switches
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'RECOVERY' on PCB:
3-pin 1-row 0.1" header or 2-way DIP switch
Firmware emergency recovery
- Dimensions
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PCB L x H: 167.65 mm x 111.15 mm [6.6 in x 4.38 in]
- Weight
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Net weight: 167 g [5.9 oz]
Gross weight: 272 g [9.6 oz]
Host Bus
- Standard
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PCI Express 2.0
- Link width
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4 lanes
1 lane or 2 lanes with reduced performance
- Link speed
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5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0)
2.5 GT/s (PCIe 1.0) with reduced performance
- Maximum payload size
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512 bytes
- Peak delivery bandwidth
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2,000 MB/s
- Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth
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1,700 MB/s (Host PC motherboard dependent)
- Power consumption
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Typ. 7.1 W ( 2.7 W @ +3.3V, 4.4 W @ +12V), excluding camera and I/O power output
Camera Inputs
- Camera interface standard
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Camera Link
- Interface standard(s)
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Camera Link 2.0
- Maximum link speed
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85 MHz
- Camera powering
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PoCL
- Connectors
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Two Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) Miniature Camera Link (MiniCL)
- ECCO - Extended Camera Link Cable Operation
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ECCO
- Number of cameras
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One 80-bit / 72-bit / Full / Medium / Base configuration camera
Or two Base configuration cameras
- Maximum number of cameras
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2
- Line-scan cameras supported
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Yes
- Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate
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6.8 Gbps (850 MB/s)
- Camera Link configuration
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Base, Medium, Full, 72-bit, 80-bit
- Camera Link clock frequency
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From 20 MHz up to 85 MHz
- PoCL (Power over Camera Link)
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PoCL Safe Power:
Two independent controllers
PoCL Device detection and automatic power-on
Overload and short-circuit protection
A +12V power source must be connected to the AUXILIARY POWER INPUT connector using a 6-pin PEG cable
- Camera types
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Area-scan cameras:
Grayscale and color (RGB and Bayer CFA)
Line-scan cameras:
Grayscale and color RGB
- Camera pixel formats supported
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Mono8, Mono10, Mono12, Mono14, Mono16
BayerXX8, BayerXX10, BayerXX12, BayerXX16 where XX = GR, RG, GB, or BG
RGB8
NOTE: Refer to release notes for availability of BayerXX14, RGB10, RGB12, RGB14 and RGB16 formats
Area Scan Camera Control
- Trigger
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Precise control of asynchronous reset cameras, with exposure control.
Support of camera exposure/readout overlap.
Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay and trigger decimation.
- Strobe
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Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.
Support of early and late strobe pulses.
Line Scan Camera Control
- Scan/page trigger
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Precise control of start-of-scan and end-of-scan triggers.
Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay.
Support of infinite acquisition, without missing line, for web inspection applications.
- Line trigger
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Support for quadrature motion encoders, with programmable noise filters, selection of acquisition direction and backward motion compensation.
Rate Converter tool for fine control of the pixel aspect ratio: Rate Conversion Ratio in the range 0.001 to 1000 with an accuracy better than 0.1%.
Rate Divider tool
- Line strobe
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Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.
On-Board Processing
- On-board memory
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512 MB
- Image data stream processing
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Unpacking of 10-/12-/14-bit to 16-bit with selectable justification to LSb or MSb
- Input LUT (Lookup Table)
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Monochrome 8-bit to 8-bit transformation
Monochrome 10-bit to 8-, 10- or 16-bit transformations
Monochrome 12-bit to 8-, 12- or 16-bit transformations
- Bayer CFA to RGB decoder
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Advanced interpolation method using average and median functions on a 3x3 kernel
- Data stream statistics
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Measurement of:
Frame rate (Area-scan only)
Line rate
Data rate
Configurable averaging interval
- Event signaling and counting
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The application software can be notified of the occurrence of various events:
Standard event: the EVENT_NEW_BUFFER event notifies the application of newly filled buffers
A large set of custom events
Custom events sources:
I/O Toolbox events
Camera and Illumination control events
Each custom event is associated with a 32-bit counter that counts the number of occurrences
The last three 32-bit context data words of the event context data can be configured with event-specific context data:
Event-specific data
State of all System I/O lines sampled at the event occurrence time
Value of any event counter
General Purpose I/O
- Number of lines
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20 I/O lines:
4 differential inputs (DIN)
4 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs (TTLIO)
8 isolated inputs (IIN)
4 isolated outputs (IOUT)
NOTE: The number of I/O lines can be extended using I/O modules attached to the I/O EXTENSION connector.
- Usage
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Any I/O input lines can be used by any LIN tool of the I/O Toolbox
Selected pairs of I/O input lines can be used by any QDC tool of the I/O toolbox to decode A/B signals of a motion encoder
- Electrical specifications
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DIN: High-speed differential inputs, up to 5 MHz, compatible with ANSI/EIA/TIA-422/485 differential line drivers and complementary TTL drivers
TTLIO: High-speed 5V-compliant TTL inputs or LVTTL outputs, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers or LVTTL, TTL, 3V CMOS receivers
IIN: 200 kHz isolated current-sense input with wide voltage input range up to 30V, compatible with totem-pole (push-pull) HTL drivers, 5V TTL/RS-422 differential line drivers, 5V CMOS drivers, potential free contacts, solid-state relays and opto-couplers
IOUT: Isolated contact outputs compatible with 30V / 100mA loads
NOTE: IIN and IOUT lines provide a functional isolation grade for the circuit technical protection. It does not provide an isolation that can protect a human being from electrical shock!
- Filter control
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Glitch removal filter available on all System I/O input lines
Configurable filter delay:
Custom value
Fixed values for DIN and TTLIO lines: 50 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns, 1 µs
Fixed values for IIN lines: 500 ns, 1 µs, 2 µs, 5 µs, 10 µs
- Polarity control
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Yes
- Power output
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Non-isolated, +12V, 1A, with electronic fuse protection
- I/O Toolbox tools
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The I/O Toolbox is a configurable interconnection of tools that generates events (usually triggers):
Line Input tool (LIN): edge detector delivering events on rising or falling edges of any selected input line.
Quadrature Decoder tool (QDC): a composite tool including:
A quadrature edge detector delivering events on selected transitions of selected pairs of input lines.
An optional backward motion compensator for clean line-scan image acquisition when the motion is unstable.
A 32-bit up/down counter for delivering a position value.
User Actions Scheduler tool (UAS): to delegate the execution of 'User Actions' at a scheduled time or encoder position. Possible user actions include setting low/high/toggle any bit of the User Output Register or generation of any User Events.
Delay tool (DEL): to delay up to 16 events from one or two I/O toolbox event sources, by a programmable time or number of motion encoder ticks (any QDC events).
Divider tool (DIV): to generate an event every nth input events from any I/O toolbox event source.
Multiplier/divider tool (MDV): to generate m events every d input events from any I/O toolbox event source.
The 'Input Tools' (LIN, QDC and UAS) can be further processed by the 'Event Tools' (DEL, DIV and MDV) to generate any of the following "trigger" events:
The "cycle trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller
The "cycle sequence trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller
The "start-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)
The "end-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)
- I/O Toolbox composition
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Determined by the selected firmware variant:
'1-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 C2C
'2-camera': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 C2C
'1-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C
'2-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 3 C2C
C2C Link
- Description
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Accurate synchronization of the trigger and the start-of-exposure of multiple grabber-controlled area-scan cameras.
Accurate synchronization of the start-of-cycle, start-of-scan and end-of-scan of multiple grabber-controlled line-scan cameras.
- Specification
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C2C-Link synchronizes cameras connected to:
the same card
to different cards in the same PC (requires an accessory cable such as the "3303 C2C-Link Ribbon Cable" or a custom-made C2C-Link cable)
to different cards in different PCs (requires one "1636 InterPC C2C-Link Adapter" for each PC and one RJ 45 CAT 5 STP straight LAN cable for each adapter but the last one)
Maximum distance:
120 cm inside a PC
1200 m cumulated adapter to adapter cable length
Maximum trigger rate:
2.5 MHz for configurations using a single PC, or up to 10 PCs and 100 m total C2C-Link cable length
200 kHz for configurations up to 32 PCs and 1200m total C2C-Link cable length
Trigger propagation delay from master to slave devices:
Less than 10 ns for cameras on the same card or on different cards in the same PC
Less than 265 ns for cameras on different cards in different PCs (3 PCs and 40m total C2C-Link cable length)
Software
- Driver name
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eGrabber
- First release
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eGrabber 23.02
- Current release
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eGrabber 25.12
- Host PC Operating System
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Microsoft Windows 11, 10 for x86-64 (64-bit) processor architecture
Linux for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures
macOS for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures
- APIs
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EGrabber class, with C++ and .NET APIs: .NET assembly designed to be used with development environments compatible with .NET frameworks version 4.6 or higher
GenICam GenTL producer libraries compatible with C/C++ compilers:
'x86_64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86-64 (64-bit) applications
'aarch64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of AArch64 (64-bit) applications
- Memento supported
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Yes
Environmental
- Operating ambient air temperature
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0°C to +50°C / +32°F to +122°F
- Operating ambient air humidity
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10% to 90% RH non-condensing
- Storage ambient air temperature
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-20°C to +70°C/ -4°F to +158°F
- Storage ambient air humidity
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10% to 90% RH non-condensing
Certifications
- EMC standards
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European Council EMC Directive 2014/30/EU
United States FCC CFR Title 47 Part 15B
- EMC - Emission
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EN 55032:2015 / CISPR 32:2012 Class B
FCC CFR Title 47 Part 15B Class B
- EMC - Immunity
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EN 55035:2017 / CISPR 35:2016
EN 61000-6-2:2005 / IEC 61000-6-2:2016
EN 61000-4-2:2009
EN 61000-4-3:2006
EN 61000-4-4:2004
EN 61000-4-6:2014
- KC Certification
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Korean Radio Waves Act, Article 58-2, Clause 3
- Flammability
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PCB compliant with UL 94 V-0
- RoHS
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European Union Directive 2015/863 (ROHS3)
- REACH
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European Union Regulation 1907/2006
- WEEE
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Must be disposed of separately from normal household waste and must be recycled according to local regulations
Ordering Information
- Product status
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Released
- Product code - Description
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PC1628 Grablink Duo
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