PC2-Vision Express

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The PC2-Vision Express frame grabber is a high-performance, PCIe image acquisition board developed for cost-sensitive machine vision applications. The board’s acquisition circuitry is exceptionally versatile and designed to interface with standard (RS-170 and CCIR), nonstandard (progressive scan), RGB and dual-channel analog cameras and simplifies camera interfacing by offering fully programmable timing coupled with efficient cabling and a variety of trigger, strobe and asynchronous reset options. It features six inputs and high digitization rates, making it an ideal solution for a wide variety of industrial inspection, identification and gauging applications. The PC2-Vision has been engineered within DALSA's Trigger-to-Image Reliability framework to ensure highly reliable and efficient acquisition control throughout the entire image capture sequence. Acquisition The PC2-Vision acquires from standard and non-standard monochrome and RGB analog sources. Its A/D converter can digitize up to three synchronized monochrome cameras. Alternatively, simultaneous acquisition is supported through a frame delay mode feature allowing concurrent capture from all six inputs to increase camera interface flexibility. The PC2-Vision features anti-aliasing filters with cutoff frequency of 6MHz or 12MHz that are software selectable and a filter bypass option. A high accuracy 40MHz triple channel 8-bit analog to digital converter offers gain and offset control to precisely match the video voltage level of the camera. Host transfers The PC2-Vision's transfers-to-host are performed via the PCI bus, supports the PCI32 platform and 5V and 3.3V PCI compliant, supporting the widest range of PCs based on the PCI bus architecture. Minimal CPU involvement is required as the board automatically retrieves each descriptor (from host memory) representing the non-contiguous host buffer. The board allows transfers to host memory or to display.

Key Features • Ability to acquire images from up to 6 mono cameras, 2 RGB cameras or 2 dual-channel analog cameras • PCIe interface • Supports standard or custom progressive scan asynchronous reset cameras • Each camera has its own vertical and horizontal synchronization and frame reset input for maximum flexibility • Supports frame delay mode cameras for up to 6 simultaneous inputs • Parallel I/O port enables easy interfacing to other controllers within the machine vision system • Teledyne DALSA Platform Development Advantage – Free Run-time Licensing (some conditions apply)   Specifications Product ID: OR-PC20-VE000-Express Camera interface 6 CCV (6:1 mux) or 2 RGB (2:1 Mux) or 2 banks of 3 genlocked cameras Pixel Clock Up to 40 MHz Bits/Pixel 8-bit/pixel Host bus PCIe x1 Frame buffer 8 MB FIFO Advance features ILUTS PC2-Vision Express functional block diagram Software Sapera LT, IFC (32-bit) PC2-Vision Express data sheet