High Precision Spherical Lens

OPTIGER provides one-stop solution ranging from design to manufacture for lenses used in the field of image processing.Having been cooperated with a variety of domestic manufacturers, OPTIGER is specialized to propose desirable solutions as per customers’ budgets and requirements.Currently, OPTIGER mainly focuses on the production of high-precision large spherical lenses with diameter ranging from ?5 to ?330mm. It is also equipped with professional testing equipment, including ZYGO interferometer, centering instrument, PE spectrophotometer and various Mitutoyo measuring instruments, etc.PARAMETERSProcessing Range Outer Diameter Tolerance Center Thickness Tolerance Aperture Partial Aperture S/D Eccentricity Effective Aperture Coating φ5-330mm 0.01-0.02mm/ 0.01-0.04mm ±0.03mm /±0.05mm 1-3 0.25-0.5 40-20; 60-40; 80-50 <1' >90% Anti-reflective Coating Remark: Lens raw materials include various optical glasses manufactured by CDGM, SCHOTT and other manufacturers.

Cyton-CXP

CoaXPress (CXP) is a simple yet powerful standard for moving high speed serial data from a camera to a frame grabber. Video is captured at speeds of up to 6.25 Gigabits/Second (Gb/S). Control commands and triggers can be sent simultaneously to the camera at rates up to 20 Mb/S (with a trigger accuracy of +/- 2 nanoseconds). Up to 13 W of power can also supplied to the camera. All of this happens over a single piece of industry standard 75 Ohm coaxial cable. Multiple CXP links can be aggregated to support higher data rates (e.g. four links provide 25 Gb/S of data). The CXP standard opens the door to applications where cable cost, routing requirements, and long distances have prevented the move to high resolution, high speed digital cameras. In many cases, existing coaxial infrastructure can be repurposed for CXP with very low installation costs. The Virtual Frame Grabber The Cyton-CXP4 can be configured in many different ways. It can acquire from one quad CXP-6 camera (total data rate: 25 Gb/S), four single link CXP-6 cameras, or anything in between. When acquiring from multiple cameras, each camera is attached to its own virtual frame grabber. This allows independent acquisition and control of each camera. However, when a four link camera is attached, only one virtual frame grabber is needed. StreamSync The StreamSync system consists of an Acquisition Engine and a Buffer Manager. The StreamSync system is a start-from-scratch complete redesign of the acquisition and DMA parts of a frame grabber. Features >> Efficient support for variable sized images with fast context switches between frames >> Per frame control of acquisition properties (AOI specifically) >> Hardware control of image sequencing >> Enhanced debug capabilities >> Efficient support for on-demand buffer allocation (Genicam model) >>Gracefully recover from dropped packets (either on the input side or the DMA side) CoaXPress High Speed Uplink The Cyton-CXP has an optional fifth CXP connector that can run the full 6.25 Gb/S from the frame grabber to the camera. The CoaXPress standard is still evolving, but the need for this high speed uplink has already become apparent. The demands for bulk uploads to the camera and precise trigger accuracy have already outstripped the current 20 Mb/S uplink specification. PCI Express Gen 2.0 Interface The Cyton-CXP has a Gen 2.0 x8 PCI Express bus interface. The Gen 2.0 PCIe bus doubles the data rate of the Gen 1.0 bus while using the same footprint and connectors. The board will work in Gen 2.0 x16 and x8 slots, with a minimum electrical configuration of x8. This ensures the board will run at full capacity. Camera Control and I/O The Cyton-CXP can acquire fixed or variable size images and features a programmable ROI (Region Of Interest) sub-windowing capability. The Cyton-CXP fully supports the CoaXPress 1.1 specification, which provides a high priority trigger packet from the frame grabber to the camera (note: both 1.1 and 1.0 cameras are supported, but the GPOI packet part of the 1.0 specification is not). All I/O signals can be routed to/from many internal and external destinations, providing a flexibility that is unprecedented in the industry. In addition, there are separate hardware I/O signals which can be connected to/from external sources. Finally, each CXP camera has a full set of these signals which can be run independently. The Cyton-CXP board, supports not only simple triggering modes, but also complicated, application-specific triggering. Specifications >> Half-Size x8 PCI Gen 2.0 Express Board >> CoaXPress 1.1 compliant (supports 1.0 and 1.1. cameras) >> Supports one to four CXP-6 cameras >> Supports multi-link CXP-6 cameras (up to four CXP links) >> Supports CXP speeds from 1.250 to 6.250 Gb/S >>Supports simultaneous capture from four 6.250 Gb/S CXP links >> Provides one CXP-6 uplink to the camera (bulk data uploads, zero latency triggers) >> Low speed uplink also supported on all links >> Uses DIN 1.0/2.3 connectors >> Uses CXP standard 4+1 connector spacing >> Provides power for all cameras (up to 13 Watts per link) >> Provides Safe Power, full protection from all power line faults >> Cameras are Plug and Play with automatic link speed detection >> Cable lengths of up to 135 meters are supported >> Cameras can be accurately synchronized, or can be completely independent >> PCI Express x8 Gen 2.0 interface (also works in x16 slots) >> Compatible with PCI Express Gen 1.0 slots >> Separate I/O for each camera >> Highly deterministic, low latency frame grabber to camera trigger >> Supports simultaneous communications to all cameras >> Windows "sees" a separate frame grabber for each camera >>No on-board memory is needed >> StreamSync acquisition engine optimizes synchronization between acquisition and DMA >> StreamSync buffer manager maximize DMA channel efficiency >>Acquire variable length frames from line scan cameras >> Acquire image sequences well beyond the 4GB barrier >> No frame rate limit >> Triggers and encoders for external control of acquisition >>Programmable signal generator for camera control (independent for each camera) >> Quadrature encoder support including sophisticated triggering schemes >> Encoder divider/multiplier >> Drivers, utilities, and examples for Windows and Linux >> Supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms >> Drivers for most 3rd party processing environments (e.g. HALCON, LabView, VisionPro, MATLAB, etc.) >> Full GenICam support for control and capture >>All models are "half size" PCIe cards >> RoHS compliantOPTIGER is specialized in the manufacture of industrial lenses designed by German companies.With high-precisionbi-telecentric lenses as its core products,OPTIGER’s products line also includes FA prime lenses,zoom lenses,etc. R&D and manufacture tailored to customers’requirements are available.http://www.www.www.dinnerwithcher.com/en

Claxon-CXP

CoaXPress Version 2.0 doubles the speed of CXP up to 12.5 Gb/S. BitFlow stays ahead of the curve with its Claxon frame grabber that support up to four links of CXP-12. Introducing The Claxon Platform BitFlow has been shipping CoaXPress frame grabbers since 2012. The standard has not stood still and BitFlow has continued to advance its products. The latest is the Claxon, a quad CXP-12 PCIe Gen 3 frame grabber. CXP-12 is the latest CoaXPress speed jump, now transmitting video at 12. 5 Gb/S. While the speed of data through the frame grabber has doubled, the overall architecture has remained the same as the previous generation Cyton, allowing user to easily migrate to the newer cameras without major software changes. CoaXPress CoaXPress (CXP) is the latest Machine Vision designed camera to frame grabber interconnect standard. CXP supports a high speed downlink for video data, a low speed uplink for camera control, and power, all over standard coax cables. Multiple CXP connections can be aggregated to even higher speed cameras. CoaXPress 2.0 CXP 2.0 not only doubles the speed from the previous release (6.25 to 12.5 Gb/S) but also adds many new features directed at industrial Machine Vision. For example, the uplink is now running twice as fast, and the trigger packet has been simplified to support much higher camera trigger speeds. Support has been added for device to host event packet, supporting asynchronous messages from the camera. Also added was support for the micro BNC connector which is more robust and runs at higher speeds than the DIN 1.0/2.3. A heartbeat packet has also been added which supports time synchronization of multiple cameras. Application Support Adding the Claxon-CXP to application is simple with SDK, which supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. Applications can be developed using C/ C++/.NET and sophisticated buffer management APIs. In addition, free drivers can be download from website for most 3rd party machine vision packages. The Claxon-CXP is software compatible with all the other current BitFlow frame grabbers. This makes migrating applications from Camera Link or analog to CXP simple and quick. Specifications >> Half-Size x8 PCI Express Gen 3.0 frame grabber >> CoaXPress 1.0/1.1/2.0 compliant >> Supports one to four CXP-12 cameras >> Supports multi-link CXP-12 cameras (up to four CXP links) >> Supports CXP speeds from 3.25 to 12.50 Gb/S >> Supports simultaneous capture from four CXP-12 cameras >>Low speed uplink supported on all links >> Uses micro BNC connectors >> Provides power for all cameras (up to 13 Watts per link) >> Provides Safe Power, full protection from all power line faults >> Cameras are Plug and Play with automatic link speed and camera parameter detection >> Cable lengths of up to 100 meters are supported >>Cameras can be accurately synchronized, or can be completely independent >>Compatible with all PCIe x8/x16 slots Gen 1.0/2.0/3.0 >> Separate I/O for each camera >> Highly deterministic, low latency frame grabber to camera trigger>>Supports simultaneous command and control to all cameras >> Windows “sees” a separate virtual frame grabber for each camera >> StreamSync technology maximizes data through-put while minimizing image latency >> Acquire variable length frames from line scan cameras >> Triggers and encoders for external control of acquisition >> Drivers, utilities and examples for Windows and Linux >> Supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms >> Drivers for most 3rd party processing environments (e.g. HALCON, LabView, VisionPro, MATLAB, etc.) >> Full GenICam support for camera control and capture >> Programmable signal generator for camera control (independent for each camera) >>Quadrature encoder support including sophisticated triggering schemes >> Encoder divider/multiplier >>RoHS compliant >> Supports BitFlow BitBoxOPTIGER is specialized in the manufacture of industrial lenses designed by German companies.With high-precisionbi-telecentric lenses as its core products,OPTIGER’s products line also includes FA prime lenses,zoom lenses,etc. R&D and manufacture tailored to customers’requirements are available.http://www.www.www.dinnerwithcher.com/en

Aon-CXP

The Aon-CXP is low cost single link CoaXPress frame grabber. While it looks tiny, it is very powerful. It supports CXP camera speeds up to 6.25 Gb/S.

MV380/60

Machine vision filters from Chroma feature sputtered interference coatings engineered for automated vision applications like machine vision and robotic guidance. These optical filters offer superior levels of contrast and blocking of unwanted light, while also performing well at wide viewing angles. Choose between Standard 40nm and Narrow 20nm-wide bandpass filters. ContrastMax filters have appropriate levels of Optical Density (OD) for automated factory imaging and machine vision applications, including fluorescence. Center wavelength ranges from 380nm to 880nm, meeting all your requirements for filters. Transmission is high. Angle of incidence (AOI) of all products is 0°. SpecificationModel MV380/60 Type MV Center Wavelength 380nm FWHM 60nm Transmission 94.2% AOI 0° Dimensions φ25mm；thick 1mm DATA ASCII Type of Filter UV#1 Vision Filter Light Source Single LED/Arc Lamp/Metal Halide/White LightOPTIGER is specialized in the manufacture of industrial lenses designed by German companies.With high-precisionbi-telecentric lenses as its core products,OPTIGER’s products line also includes FA prime lenses,zoom lenses,etc. R&D and manufacture tailored to customers’requirements are available.http://www.www.www.dinnerwithcher.com/en

MV405/20

Machine vision filters from Chroma feature sputtered interference coatings engineered for automated vision applications like machine vision and robotic guidance. These optical filters offer superior levels of contrast and blocking of unwanted light, while also performing well at wide viewing angles. Choose between Standard 40nm and Narrow 20nm-wide bandpass filters. ContrastMax filters have appropriate levels of Optical Density (OD) for automated factory imaging and machine vision applications, including fluorescence. Center wavelength ranges from 380nm to 880nm, meeting all your requirements for filters. Transmission is high. Angle of incidence (AOI) of all products is 0°. Specifications Model MV405/20 Type MV Center Wavelength 405nm FWHM 20nm Transmission 97.58% AOI 0° Dimensions φ25mm ；1mm thick DATA ASCII Type of filter Narrow Violet Vision Filter Light Source Single LED/Arc Lamp/Metal Halide/White LightOPTIGER is specialized in the manufacture of industrial lenses designed by German companies.With high-precisionbi-telecentric lenses as its core products,OPTIGER’s products line also includes FA prime lenses,zoom lenses,etc. R&D and manufacture tailored to customers’requirements are available.http://www.www.www.dinnerwithcher.com/en

MV450/20

Machine vision filters from Chroma feature sputtered interference coatings engineered for automated vision applications like machine vision and robotic guidance. These optical filters offer superior levels of contrast and blocking of unwanted light, while also performing well at wide viewing angles. Choose between Standard 40nm and Narrow 20nm-wide bandpass filters. ContrastMax filters have appropriate levels of Optical Density (OD) for automated factory imaging and machine vision applications, including fluorescence. Center wavelength ranges from 380nm to 880nm, meeting all your requirements for filters. Transmission is high. Angle of incidence (AOI) of all products is 0°. SpecificationsModel MV450/20 Type MV Center Wavelength 450nm FWHM 20nm Transmission 96.79% AOI 0° Dimensions φ25mm；thick 1mm DATA ASCII Type of filter Narrow Indigo Vision Filter Light Source Single LED/Arc Lamp/Metal Halide/White LightOPTIGER is specialized in the manufacture of industrial lenses designed by German companies.With high-precisionbi-telecentric lenses as its core products,OPTIGER’s products line also includes FA prime lenses,zoom lenses,etc. R&D and manufacture tailored to customers’requirements are available.http://www.www.www.dinnerwithcher.com/en

Axion-CL

With each successive generation of Camera Link frame grabbers, BitFlow has improved the quality, flexibility, and robustness of their interfaces. Meanwhile, the Camera Link Specification has also been continuously evolving: 80-bit (10-tap) mode was added, Power over Camera Link (PoCL), new connectors, new tap formats.

Neon-CLB

Simplify 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 the camera's highest frame/data rate, with precision image acquisition suitable for the most demanding applications. Adding the Neon-CLB to application is simple with 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. Power over Camera Link Power over Camera Link (PoCL) is an extension of the Camera Link specification that allows for frame grabbers to provide power to small cameras over the Camera Link cable. PoCL provides many advantages to the OEM. First, the cabling is vastly simplified, as only a single cable is required for data, power, and control to the camera. This provides all the convenience of Firewire or USB cables schemes with the addition of industrial cabling and much higher data rates. Another advantage is that, because only a single cable is required, the camera footprint can be greatly reduced. PoCL Safe Power The baseline PoCL specification only outlines the basic requirement of the frame grabber providing power to the camera. However, without some protection, there are many situations that can occur where both the frame grabber and/or the PC the board it is installed in can be damaged. To overcome these problems an ancillary provision was added to the PoCL standard called "Safe Power". The Safe Power specification takes into account every possible situation that might occur on the CL power lines and protects both the frame grabber and the PC. Safe Power also provides a path for backwards compatiblity with non-PoCL cameras and non-PoCL cables. FlowThru Architecture Comprised of a user-programmable Video Pipeline, a flexible Camera Control Unit, efficient high-speed video FIFOs, and a highly-optimized scatter/gather DMA engine, the FlowThru architecture allows the Neon-CLB to control, acquire, reformat, and transfer video data directly into the user's application at camera speeds with zero latency or CPU usage. Our FlowThru architecture has been continuously optimized and enhanced to support a wide variety of imaging applications, such as document/package processing, semiconductor, continuous web inspection, sequence capture, and motion analysis. It can easily be adapted to the specific needs of your application. Software Support The Neon-CLB is supported by the BitFlow Software Development Kit (SDK), which is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. The SDK is board family generic and will work with all of BitFlow's frame grabbers (making future migrations to other families trivial). The kit provides drivers, DLLs, and configuration utilities for people interested in using third party software. For customers interested in developing their own applications, the SDK provides header files, libraries, and huge amounts of example code. The SDK provides a wide range of Application Programming Interfaces (API), from low-level direct hardware access to high-level automatic buffer management. Every line of code has been engineered for reliability under the toughest industrial conditions. At the same time, a priority has been put on ease of use and short development times. PCI Express Interface The Neon-CLB uses a x4 PCI Express bus interface. The PCI Express bus offers huge increases in DMA performance over the PCI bus. However, what is less well known is that the PCI Express bus is always peer to peer. This means the Karbon-CL does not share the bus with any other devices. In most motherboard architectures, it will talk directly to the PCI chipset that is on the memory bus. This direct connection equates to higher sustained DMA bandwidths regardless of system load. Most motherboards support concurrent full DMA speed on all of their PCI Express slots. The board will work in any slot that it fits in. This means not only x16, x8 and x4 slots, but also, as is becoming the trend, x1 slots that use x4 (or larger) connectors. Camera Control and I/O Supported by a GUI camera file editing utility (CamEd), the Neon can acquire fixed or variable size images and features a programmable ROI (Region Of Interest) sub-windowing capability. The board provides a full set of camera control signals (CC1, CC2, CC3, CC4) and sync inputs (LVAL, FVAL, PCLK, trigger, and encoder) for total camera and acquisition control. These signals are completely independent, although there are provisions for driving all cameras from a signal set up encoder/trigger signals. There is also a large number of programmable general purpose outputs and inputs that are not tied to the camera's timing. Specifications >>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) >> MDR Camera Link connector >> 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 and Linux >> Supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms >> Drivers for most 3rd party processing environments (e.g. HALCON, LabView, VisionPro, MATLAB, etc.) >> Acquire image sequences well beyond the 4GB barrier >> RoHS compliantOPTIGER is specialized in the manufacture of industrial lenses designed by German companies.With high-precisionbi-telecentric lenses as its core products,OPTIGER’s products line also includes FA prime lenses,zoom lenses,etc. R&D and manufacture tailored to customers’requirements are available.http://www.www.www.dinnerwithcher.com/en

Neon-CLD

Neon-CLB is the world's first PoCL frame grabber. Now comes the Neon-CLD which supports two cameras on the same low-cost x4 PCIe platform. Both cameras can be run completely independent (with different resolutions, frame rates, triggering modes, etc.) or perfectly synchronized. The Neon-CLD is incredibly flexible and powerful, yet it can substantially lower system cost. Not only is the Neon-CLD very aggressively priced, but there are additional savings from connecting two cameras to one frame grabber. Adding the Neon-CLD to application is simple with SDK, which supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. Develop application using sophisticated buffer management APIs, or download our free drivers, available for most 3rd party machine vision packages.Power over Camera LinkPower over Camera Link (PoCL) is an extension of the Camera Link specification that allows for frame grabbers to provide power to small cameras over the Camera Link cable. PoCL provides many advantages to the OEM. First, the cabling is vastly simplified, as only a single cable is required for data, power, and control to the camera. This provides all the convenience of Firewire or USB cables schemes with the addition of industrial cabling and much higher data rates. Another advantage is that, because only a single cable is required, the camera footprint can be greatly reduced. PoCL Safe Power The baseline PoCL specification only outlines the basic requirement of the frame grabber providing power to the camera. However, without some protection, there are many situations that can occur where both the frame grabber and/or the PC the board it is installed in can be damaged. To overcome these problems an ancillary provision was added to the PoCL standard called "Safe Power". The Safe Power specification takes into account every possible situation that might occur on the CL power lines and protects both the frame grabber and the PC. Safe Power also provides a path for backwards compatiblity with non-PoCL cameras and non-PoCL cables. FlowThru Architecture Comprised of a user-programmable Video Pipeline, a flexible Camera Control Unit, efficient high-speed video FIFOs and a highly-optimized scatter/gather DMA engine, the FlowThru architecture allows the Karbon-CL to control, acquire, reformat, and transfer video data directly into the user's application at camera speeds with zero latency or CPU usage. FlowThru architecture has been continuously optimized and enhanced to support a wide variety of imaging applications such as document/package processing, semiconductor, continuous web inspection, sequence capture, and motion analysis. It can easily be adapted to the specific needs of application. Software Support The Neon-CLD is supported by the BitFlow Software Development Kit (SDK), which is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. The SDK is board family generic and will work with all of BitFlow's frame grabbers. The kit provides drivers, DLLs, and configuration utilities for people interested in using third party software. For customers interested in developing their own applications, the SDK provides header files, libraries, and huge amounts of example code. The SDK provides a wide range of Application Programming Interfaces (API), from low-level direct hardware access to high-level automatic buffer management. Every line of code has been engineered for reliability under the toughest industrial conditions. At the same time, a priority has been put on ease of use and short development times. PCI Express Interface The Neon-CLD uses a x4 PCI Express bus interface. The PCI Express bus offers huge increases in DMA performance over the PCI bus. However, what is less well known is that the PCI Express bus is always peer to peer. This means the Neon-CLD does not share the bus with any other devices. In most motherboard architectures, it will talk directly to the PCI chipset that is on the memory bus. This direct connection equates to higher sustained DMA bandwidths regardless of system load. Most motherboards also support concurrent full DMA speed on all of their PCI Express slots. The board will work in any slot that it fits in. This means not only x16, x8 and x4 slots, but also, as is becoming the trend, x1 slots that use x4 (or larger) connectors. Camera Control and I/O Supported by a GUI camera file editing utility (CamEd), the Neon-CLD can acquire fixed or variable size images and features a programmable ROI (Region Of Interest) sub-windowing capability. The board provides a full set of camera control signals (CC1, CC2, CC3, CC4) and sync inputs (LVAL, FVAL, PCLK, trigger, and encoder) for each camera connected to the board (up to four cameras can be connected). These signals are completely independent, although there are provisions for driving all cameras from a signal set up encoder/trigger signals. There is also a large number of programmable general purpose outputs and inputs that are not tied to the camera's timing. Specifications >> Supports two Base CL cameras >> Provides Power over Camera Link (PoCL) for both cameras >> Support both PoCL and non-PoCL cameras >> Provides Safe Power - full protection from all CL power line faults >> Both cameras can be independent of synchronized >> Separate I/O for each camera >> MDR Camera Link connectors >> The Neon-CLD appears to Windows as two separate frame grabbers >>Fully backwards compatible with non-PoCL cameras and cables >> Half-Size x4 PCI Express Board >> Acquire up to 24 bits at 85 MHz >> FlowThru technology means that no on-board memory is needed >> Sustained DMA rates up to 350 MB/S for each camera (700 MB/S total) >> 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 (independent for each camera) >> Quadrature encoder support including sophisticated triggering schemes >>Encoder divider/multiplier >>Drivers, utilities and examples for Windows and Linux >> Supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms >>Drivers for most 3rd party processing environments (e.g. HALCON, LabView, VisionPro, MATLAB, etc.) >> Acquire variable length frames with line scan cameras >>Acquire image sequences well beyond the 4GB barrier >>RoHS compliantOPTIGER is specialized in the manufacture of industrial lenses designed by German companies.With high-precisionbi-telecentric lenses as its core products,OPTIGER’s products line also includes FA prime lenses,zoom lenses,etc. R&D and manufacture tailored to customers’requirements are available.http://www.www.www.dinnerwithcher.com/en

Neon-CLQ

This product started with the Neon-CLB, the world's first PoCL frame grabber. Next came the Neon-CLD which supports two cameras on the same low-cost x4 PCIe platform. The newest member, the Neon-CLQ, supports capture from four cameras simultaneously. Both cameras can be run completely independent (with different resolutions, frame rates, triggering modes, etc.) or perfectly synchronized. The Neon-CLQ is incredibly flexible and powerful, yet it can substantially lower system cost. Although the Neon-CLQ only requires a single PCIe slot it provides four camera interfaces plus I/O. This means the Neon-CLQ hits the highest density of cameras per slot of any frame grabber on the market while bringing the cost per camera down to unprecedented lows. Power over Camera Link Power over Camera Link (PoCL) is an extension of the Camera Link specification that allows for frame grabbers to provide power to small cameras over the Camera Link cable. PoCL provides many advantages to the OEM. First, the cabling is vastly simplified, as only a single cable is required for data, power, and control to the camera. This provides all the convenience of Firewire or USB cables schemes with the addition of industrial cabling and much higher data rates. Another advantage is that, because only a single cable is required, the camera footprint can be greatly reduced. PoCL Safe Power The baseline PoCL specification only outlines the basic requirement of the frame grabber providing power to the camera. However, without some protection, there are many situations that can occur where both the frame grabber and/or the PC the board it is installed in can be damaged. To overcome these problems an ancillary provision was added to the PoCL standard called "Safe Power". The Safe Power specification takes into account every possible situation that might occur on the CL power lines and protects both the frame grabber and the PC. Safe Power also provides a path for backwards compatiblity with non-PoCL cameras and non-PoCL cables. FlowThru Architecture Comprised of a user-programmable Video Pipeline, a flexible Camera Control Unit, efficient high-speed video FIFOs and a highly-optimized scatter/gather DMA engine, the FlowThru architecture allows the Neon-CLQ to control, acquire, reformat, and transfer video data directly into the user's application at camera speeds with zero latency or CPU usage. FlowThru architecture has been continuously optimized and enhanced to support a wide variety of imaging applications such as document/package processing, semiconductor, continuous web inspection, sequence capture, and motion analysis. It can easily be adapted to the specific needs of application. Software Support The Neon-CLQ is supported by the BitFlow Software Development Kit (SDK), which is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. The SDK is board family generic and will work with all of BitFlow's frame grabbers. The kit provides drivers, DLLs, and configuration utilities for people interested in using third party software. For customers interested in developing their own applications, the SDK provides header files, libraries, and huge amounts of example code. The SDK provides a wide range of Application Programming Interfaces (API), from low-level direct hardware access to high-level automatic buffer management. Every line of code has been engineered for reliability under the toughest industrial conditions. At the same time, a priority has been put on ease of use and short development times. PCI Express Interface The Neon-CLQ uses a x4 PCI Express bus interface. The PCI Express bus offers huge increases in DMA performance over the PCI bus. However, what is less well known is that the PCI Express bus is always peer to peer. This means the Neon-CLQ does not share the bus with any other devices. In most motherboard architectures, it will talk directly to the PCI chipset that is on the memory bus. This direct connection equates to higher sustained DMA bandwidths regardless of system load. Most motherboards also support concurrent full DMA speed on all of their PCI Express slots. The board will work in any slot that it fits in. This means not only x16, x8 and x4 slots, but also, as is becoming the trend, x1 slots that use x4 (or larger) connectors. Camera Control and I/O Supported by a GUI camera file editing utility (CamEd), the Neon can acquire fixed or variable size images and features a programmable ROI (Region Of Interest) sub-windowing capability. The board provides a full set of camera control signals (CC1, CC2, CC3, CC4) and sync inputs (LVAL, FVAL, PCLK, trigger, and encoder) for total camera and acquisition control. These signals are completely independent, although there are provisions for driving all cameras from a signal set up encoder/trigger signals. There is also a large number of programmable general purpose outputs and inputs that are not tied to the camera's timing. Specifications >> Supports four Base CL cameras >> Provides Power over Camera Link (PoCL) for all cameras >> Support both PoCL and non-PoCL cameras >> Provides Safe Power - full protection from all CL power line faults >> All cameras can be independently synchronized >> Separate I/O for each camera >> SDR Camera Link connectors >> Support simultaneous serial communications to all four camera >> The Neon-CLQ appears to Windows as four separate frame grabbers >>Fully backwards compatible with non-PoCL cameras and cables >>Half-Size x4 PCI Express Board >> Acquire up to 24 bits at 85 MHz >> FlowThru technology means that no on-board memory is needed >> 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 (independent for each camera) >> Quadrature encoder support including sophisticated triggering schemes >>Encoder divider/multiplier >> Drivers, utilities, and examples for Windows and Linux >> Supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms >> Drivers for most 3rd party processing environments (e.g. HALCON, LabView, VisionPro, MATLAB, etc.) >> Acquire variable length frames with line scan cameras >>Acquire image sequences well beyond the 4GB barrier >> RoHS compliant OPTIGER is specialized in the manufacture of industrial lenses designed by German companies.With high-precisionbi-telecentric lenses as its core products,OPTIGER’s products line also includes FA prime lenses,zoom lenses,etc. R&D and manufacture tailored to customers’requirements are available.http://www.www.www.dinnerwithcher.com/en