Building on the field-proven technology and performance of Teledyne DALSA’s X64 frame grabbers the new Xcelera Series leverages the PCI Express (PCIe) platform.

The PCIe host interface is a point-to-point host interface allowing simultaneous image acquisition and transfer without loading the system bus and involving little intervention from the host CPU.

The X64 Xcelera-CL PX4 Full is a Camera Link frame grabber that is based on the PCI Express x4 interface. Compatible with a Base, Medium or Full Camera Link® camera, supports a wide variety of multi-tap area and line scan colour and monochrome cameras. For greater versatility, the X64 Xcelera-CL PX4 Full board can interface with camera pixel depths and tap configurations not covered by the Camera Link standard. For example, the Xcelera-CL PX4 Full
can support 10-taps or higher with 8-bits per tap.

The Xcelera-CL PX4 Full is built within DALSA’s Trigger-to-Image Reliability technology framework and combines acquisition and external control signals on a single
PCIe slot. Trigger-to-Image Reliability controlsl, monitosr and corrects the image-acquisition process from the time that an external trigger event occurs to the moment the data is sent to the host, providing traceability when errors do occur and permitting recovery from those errors.

Bundled software
The frame grabber comes with Sapera Essentials software, a cost-effective toolkit that bundles board level acquisition and control with advanced image processing capability, featuring a value added, all-new geometric search tool. Sapera Essential is designed to deliver the critical functionality needed to design, develop and deploy high-performance machine vision applications while at the same time significantly lowering deployment costs.