Frame Grabber card

4 CVBS*-inputs, 1 CVBS '-output, EEPROM, PAL, NTSC, SECAM, an input-device specially developed by IDS to grant top speed switching rates of the input channels, 4 Trigger, 8 digital inputs, 8 digital outputs, Hardware Watchdog optocoupler for dig. I/O as option

Application:

• Safety Engineering
• Industrial Automation
• Medical Technology

The Alta-AN is an affordable, versatile analog product family for Semiconductor and Industrial Vision OEMs. This family can acquire from almost any analog cameras on the market, from high speed asynchronous-reset monochrome cameras to super high resolution color HDTV cameras. The Alta frame grabbers are high-quality, flexible, PCI Express bus imaging products, well supported by an easy-to-use SDK, and drivers for most popular software imaging packages. There are three main models in the Alta family: Alta-AN1, Alta-AN2 and Alta-AN4. The Alta-AN1 has one Virtual Frame Grabber (VFG) and can support one analog camera of any type. The Alta-AN2 has two VFGs and support two cameras, and the Alta-AN4 has four VFGs and support four cameras. Each Alta model is a half size x4 PCI Express board (supporting total data rate up to 1.0 GB/S). Each VFG is a completely independent frame grabber. This means that each VFG can be configured for a different camera, different triggering mode, different destination buffer and can be in a different acquisition state than the other VFGs. But most importantly, all of the VFGs on one board can acquire simultaneously, at the cameras full frame rate and resolution.

Features:

• x4 PCI Express "short" card
• Super high quality discrete Analog Front End
• Three A-to-Ds per VFG (maximum clock rate: 160 MHz)
• Supports VGA, SVGA, XGA, SXGA, UXGA resolutions and beyond
• Per channel programmable Gain/offset
• Supports single tap and dual tap monochrome cameras
• Supports RGB cameras (24 bits/pixel)
• Supports component YPbPr cameras (YUV 4:4:4)
• Supports asynchronous reset cameras
• Supports partial scan cameras (high frame rates)
• Multiplex between two one-tap or two two-tap cameras
• Programmable Region of Interest (ROI) via sub-windowing acquisition
• External hardware or software trigger
• Acquire at any frame rate
• Supports cameras up to 16K x 16K
• Supports interlaced and progressive scan cameras
• HD/VD/Composite sync signals in/out
• Supports WEN input signal
• Strobe output (programmable timing)
• Provides power to camera (12 V @ 0.5 A)
• Flowthru technology, no on-board frame buffers, zero latency data access
• Efficient interrupt driven architecture, no software polling required
• RoHS compliant

The Alta-AN is an affordable, versatile analog product family for Semiconductor and Industrial Vision OEMs. This family can acquire from almost any analog cameras on the market, from high speed asynchronous-reset monochrome cameras to super high resolution color HDTV cameras. The Alta frame grabbers are high-quality, flexible, PCI Express bus imaging products, well supported by an easy-to-use SDK, and drivers for most popular software imaging packages.

There are three main models in the Alta family: Alta-AN1, Alta-AN2 and Alta-AN4. The Alta-AN1 has one Virtual Frame Grabber (VFG) and can support one analog camera of any type. The Alta-AN2 has two VFGs and support two cameras, and the Alta-AN4 has four VFGs and support four cameras. Each Alta model is a half size x4 PCI Express board (supporting total data rate up to 1.0 GB/S). Each VFG is a completely independent frame grabber. This means that each VFG can be configured for a different camera, different triggering mode, different destination buffer and can be in a different acquisition state than the other VFGs. But most importantly, all of the VFGs on one board can acquire simultaneously, at the cameras full frame rate and resolution.

Features

• x4 PCI Express "short" card
• Super high quality discrete Analog Front End
• Three A-to-Ds per VFG (maximum clock rate: 160 MHz)
• Supports VGA, SVGA, XGA, SXGA, UXGA resolutions and beyond
• Per channel programmable Gain/offset
• Supports single tap and dual tap monochrome cameras
• Supports RGB cameras (24 bits/pixel)
• Supports component YPbPr cameras (YUV 4:4:4)
• Supports asynchronous reset cameras
• Supports partial scan cameras (high frame rates)
• Multiplex between two one-tap or two two-tap cameras
• Programmable Region of Interest (ROI) via sub-windowing acquisition
• External hardware or software trigger
• Acquire at any frame rate
• Supports cameras up to 16K x 16K
• Supports interlaced and progressive scan cameras
• HD/VD/Composite sync signals in/out
• Supports WEN input signal
• Strobe output (programmable timing)
• Provides power to camera (12 V @ 0.5 A)
• Flowthru technology, no on-board frame buffers, zero latency data access
• Efficient interrupt driven architecture, no software polling required
• RoHS compliant

The Karbon-CL

Karbon-CL is the world's first four-camera PCI Express frame grabber. It can simultaneously acquire from up to four Base CL cameras or two Full CL cameras (including 10-tap CL). It is built on top of BitFlow's FlowThru technology, which provides zero latency access to data, super low CPU usage, and unlimited DMA destination size. The Karbon-CL is the first member of BitFlow's Karbon family, a platform that will host a wide variety of virtual frame grabbers. These virtual frame grabbers can be customized to meet your specific needs.

The Karbon-CL has been designed with two main applications in mind. First, in situations where more than one camera is needed, the Karbon-CL can reduce both the system cost and the hardware footprint by its ability to acquire from up to four cameras. Second, in situations where extremely high data rates and/or frame rates are required, the Karbon-CL has been designed to acqcuire up to 160 bits at 85 MHz pixel clock rate and DMA at data rates up to 2.0 GB/S. For example, the Karbon-CL can acquire simultaneously from two 10-tap CL cameras.

Features

• Half-Size x8 PCI Express Board
• Up to 160 bits input at 85 MHz
• Acquire from four independent Base CL cameras
• Acquire from two independent Medium/Full CL cameras
• Acquire from two 10-tap CL cameras
• FlowThru technology eliminates the need for on-board frame buffers, even with the fastest cameras
• Hardware Bayer matrix decoding (optional)
• Multi-tap cameras rasterized on the fly
• Highly configurable acquisition engine
• DMA at data rates up to 2.0 GB/S
• Supports images up to 256K x 128K
• No frame rate limit
• Quadrature encoder support including sophisticated triggering schemes
• Encoder divider/multiplier
• On board timing generator supports high-resolution exposure control
• Independent trigger and encoder inputs for each camera
• Independent CCs outputs for each camera
• General purpose I/O
• Appears to software as four independently programmable frame grabbers
• Supported by the BitFlow SDK on 32 and 64-bit Windows
• Acquire image sequences well beyond the 4 GB barrier
• Drivers, utilities and examples for Windows XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7
• RoHS Complaint

The Neon-CLB

Simplify your industrial, medical, or semiconductor imaging application with BitFlow's Neon-CLB, the easiest to use and most reliable Base/PoCL Camera Link frame grabber available anywhere. The Neon-CLB captures images at up to the camera's highest frame/data rate, with precision image acquisition suitable for the most demanding applications.

The Neon-CLB is designed for the OEM that needs the performance of the PCI Express bus, BitFlow's famous industrial quality, and one of the lowest price points in the industry. The Neon-CLB can acquire from ALL Base CL cameras and has enough industrial I/O to handle even the most complicated synchronization tasks.

Adding the Neon-CLB to your application is simple with our SDK, which supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. The SDK provides high level APIs for sophisticated buffer management and low-level direct access to the board for speedy custom control.

If you need the simplest, most reliable, and best performing Base Camera Link and PoCL frame grabber, call BitFlow today to get our OEM-priced Neon-CLB, BitFlow's 4th generation of robust, industrial Camera Link imaging products.

Features

• Base Camera Link interface
• Power over Camera Link (PoCL)
• Supports both PoCL and non-PoCL cameras
• Provides Safe Power - full protection from all CL power line faults
• Fully backwards compatible with non-PoCL cameras and cables
• Half-Size x4 PCI Express Board
• Acquire up to 24 bits at 85 MHz
• Both CL and I/O connector on one bracket (only one slot needed)
• FlowThru technology means that no on-board memory is needed, even with the fastest cameras
• DMA at data rates up to 528 MB/S
• Supports images up to 256K x 128K
• No frame rate limit
• Triggers and encoders for external control of acquisition
• Programmable signal generator for camera control
• Sophisticated triggering modes for complex applications
• Acquire variable length frames with line scan cameras
• Quadrature encoder support including sophisticated triggering schemes
• Encoder divider/multiplier
• On board timing generator supports high-resolution exposure control
• Drivers, utilities and examples for Windows XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7
• Supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms
• Drivers for most 3rd party processing environments
• Acquire image sequences well beyond the 4GB barrier
• RoHS compliant

The R3-CL

The R3 frame grabber family has been designed to simplify the task of interfacing today's Camera Link cameras to a wide array of imaging applications. The R3-CL can acquire from almost every Base CL camera manufactured. Combining the power of a proven, sophisticated acquisition/DMA engine with a flexible camera interface and control architecture, the R3-CL is our most affordable Camera Link interface and is an excellent choice for end-users, system integrators and OEMs.

The R3-CL is the second generation of BitFlow frame grabbers that uses our FlowThru technology. The principle here is to do away with the frame buffer that traditional frame grabbers are built around, and instead optimize the data path so that the images flow through the board and into the host's memory with no latency and zero CPU usage. The only on-board storage is a FIFO to handle the asynchronous nature of the PCI bus. Finally, the entire system is interrupt based, so modern, multi-threaded, applications need not waste processing resources on controlling acquisition.

Features

• Half-size, 32-bit/33MHz PCI 2.2 compliant card
• Supports both 5 V and 3.3 V PCI slots
• Base Camera Link interface for a single area or line scan camera with 1, 2 or 3 channels of up to 24, 12 or 8 bits per channel respectively
• Flow-Thru architecture featuring a Scatter/Gather DMA engine that supports the direct transfer of data to memory in real-time
• Acquires image sizes up to 512K pixels by 32K lines (vertical size is unlimited for line scan cameras)
• Efficient packing of 24-bit pixels
• On-the-fly reformatting for multi-channel cameras
• 11 user-programmable I/O signals (4 in/7 out)
• Up to 50MHz acquisition
• Optional 16-bit in/16-bit out LUT
• Serial port communications
• Version 1.1 compliant serial DLL
• Drivers and DLLs for Windows NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003
• Supported by BitFlow SDK 3.00 or higher

The R3-CL-PMC

The R3 frame grabber family has been designed to simplify the task of interfacing today's Camera Link cameras to a wide array of imaging applications. The R3-CL-PMC can acquire from almost every Base CL camera manufactured. The addition of a PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) version of the R3-CL adds even more flexibility to our product by allowing embedded application developers to take advantage of a proven camera interface product by installing this board onto an array processor or single-board computer.

The R3-CL family is the second generation of BitFlow frame grabbers that uses our FlowThru technology. The principle here is to do away with the frame buffer that traditional frame grabbers are built around, and instead optimize the data path so that the images flow through the board and into the host's memory with no latency and zero CPU usage. The only on-board storage is a FIFO to handle the asynchronous nature of the PCI bus. Finally, the entire system is interrupt based, so modern, multi-threaded, applications need not waste processing resources on controlling acquisition.

Features

• 32-bit/33MHz PCI 2.2 compliant card
• Single-size, PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) interface board supporting both 5 V and 3.3 V PCI configurations
• Base Camera Link interface for a single area or line scan camera with 1, 2 or 3 channels of up to 24, 12 or 8 bits per channel respectively
• Flow-Thru architecture featuring a Scatter/Gather DMA engine that supports the direct transfer of data to memory in real-time
• Acquires image sizes up to 512K pixels by 32K lines (vertical size is unlimited for line scan cameras)
• Efficient packing of 24-bit pixels
• On-the-fly reformatting for multi-channel cameras
• 11 user-programmable I/O signals (4 in/7 out)
• Up to 50MHz acquisition
• Optional 16-bit in/16-bit out LUT
• Serial port communications
• Version 1.1 compliant serial DLL
• Drivers and DLLs for Windows NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003
• Supported by BitFlow SDK 3.00 or higher

BitFlow designed the Road Runner from the ground up to support demanding digital imaging applications. Since it's initial development, the Road Runner has been designed into 100s of successful applications and continues to solve the most demanding interface and application requirements.

Features

• 32-bit/33MHz bus master PCI bus interface board
• Flow-Thru architecture featuring a Scatter/Gather DMA engine that supports the direct transfer of data to VGA or system memory in real-time with no latency or CPU usage
• Acquires image sizes up to 512K by 32K pixels (vertical size is unlimited for line scan cameras)
• LVDS/RS422 (32-bit) area or line scan camera interface supporting a single camera with up to 4 8-bit channels, two synchronized cameras or two multiplexed asynchronous cameras (model dependent)
• 9 user-programmable I/O signals (4 inputs and 5 outputs)
• Multiple trigger modes
• Up to 40MHz acquisition for LVDS and 30MHz for RS-422 (contact us for higher clock rates)
• On-the-fly reformatting for multi-tap cameras
• Standard 8-bit in/12-bit out LUT
• Optional 16-bit in/16-bit out LUT available
• Cables and configuration files for more than 200 industrial cameras
• Drivers and DLLs for Windows NT, 2000 and XP
• Supported by all versions of the BitFlow SDK

Mikrotron produces high-speed PCI frame grabbers for color and monochrome (greyscale) cameras in the field of industrial image processing. The frame grabbers are available in analog, digital and Camera Link® versions.

The most striking feature of the INSPECTA frame grabbers is their direct image data transfer at a PCI bus transfer rate of up to 132 MB/sec, so that virtually any imaginable video source can be processed in real time. Even under heavy load on the PCI bus not a single pixel is lost thanks to the ample FIFO memory. 

Main features:

	Support of matrix and line scan cameras with any image format, CCIR/RS- 170, progressive or interlaced scan
	Parallel 24-bit RGB true color
	Up to four independent video channels
	Six analog camera inputs, each up to 60 MS/s
	Digital 8 to 32-bit RS-422/644 camera input up to 50 MHz
	Maximum video data rate 80 MB/s
	Camera completely controlled by software
	Function library for DOSX, Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT 4.0/2000 and Linux
	Driver for HALCON

Mikrotron produces high-speed PCI frame grabbers for color and monochrome (greyscale) cameras in the field of industrial image processing. The frame grabbers are available in analog, digital and Camera Link versions.

The most striking feature of the INSPECTA frame grabbers is their direct image data transfer at a PCI bus transfer rate of up to 132 MB/sec, so that virtually any imaginable video source can be processed in real time. Even under heavy load on the PCI bus not a single pixel is lost thanks to the ample FIFO memory.

Main Features:

Support of matrix and line scan cameras with any image format, CCIR/RS- 170, progressive or interlaced scan

Parallel 24-bit RGB true color

Up to four independent video channels

Six analog camera inputs, each up to 60 MS/s

Digital 8 to 32-bit RS-422/644 camera input up to 50 MHz

Maximum video data rate 80 MB/s

Camera completely controlled by software

Function library for DOSX, Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT 4.0/2000 and Linux Driver for HALCON

 

Mikrotron produces high-speed PCI frame grabbers for color and monochrome (greyscale) cameras in the field of industrial image processing. The frame grabbers are available in analog, digital and Camera Link® versions.

The Inspecta-4C frame grabber is another member of the INSPECTA - family of high performance grame grabbers for cost-efficient machine vision applications. It supports the standard connection to digital high speed cameras, complying the  Camera Link® Interface spezification. It provides the simultaneous input of three monochrome or one RGB camera (The cameras may be linescan or matrix)  

Main Features:

Support of matrix and line scan cameras with any image format, CCIR/RS- 170, progressive or interlaced scan

Parallel 24-bit RGB true color

Up to four independent video channels

Six analog camera inputs, each up to 60 MS/s

Digital 8 to 32-bit RS-422/644 camera input up to 50 MHz

Maximum video data rate 80 MB/s

Camera completely controlled by software

Function library for DOSX, Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT 4.0/2000 and Linux

Driver for HALCON

• Very competitive priced Base Camera Link® Frame Grabber for cost-sensitive Machine Vision applications.
• For use in high performance PCs via PCI-Express slot
• Data rate up to  250 MB/sec
• Developed for modern, fast Cameras
• No need to change existing hard- and software: substitution of prior framegrabbers , even "mixed" implementation possible
• Uses well proved Mikrotron standard- drivers
• Integrated 12V-Powersupply, capable of PoCL (Power over Camera Link)  

Mikrotron produces high-speed PCI framegrabbers for color and monochrome (greyscale) cameras in the field of industrial image processing. The framegrabbers are available in analog, digital and Camera Link® versions.

The internal memory of the Inspecta-5 framegrabber provides up to 1GB for fast, large format line- and matrixcameras. It allows continuous and fail save image processing, even under intense processor load. Due to the 36 bit color depth the Inspecta-5 framegrabber is particularly suitable for paint analysis, fiber- and textile examination, weaving technolgy etc. The integrated interface to the professional machine vision software "HALCON" provides you  with a powerful tool for demanding tasks.

Inspecta-5 supports LabView  !