Dalsa-Coreco X64-CL FULL Frame Grabber For High Speed Machine Vision

Compatible with a Base, Medium or Full Camera Link® camera, the X64-CL Full frame grabber is universal PCI slot compliant and supports a wide variety of multiple tap area and linescan color and monochrome cameras. For greater versatility, the X64-CLFull board can also interface with camera pixel depths and tap configurations not covered by the Camera Link standard. For example, the X64-CL-Full can support 10-taps or higher with 8-bit per tap.

The X64-CL Full has been built within DALSA's Trigger-to-Image Reliability technology framework. Trigger-to-Image Reliability leverages DALSA's hardware and software innovations to control, monitor and correct the image acquisition process from the time that an external trigger event occurs to the moment the data is sent to the PCI bus. Trigger-to- Image Reliability enables more efficient and reliable machine vision inspections by securing the image acquisition process, providing traceability when errors do occur and permitting recovery from those errors.

Successful industrial machine vision applications require consistent and predictable results in demanding operating environments. The X64-CLFull Acquisition Control Engine (ACU), delivers an unprecedented level of acquisition functionality. The X64-CL-Full not only provides the industry's most flexible front-end for interfacing Camera Link cameras, it also incorporates a fault tolerant image synchronization design, allowing it to automatically detect report and recover from a lost camera signal ensuring a greater level of reliability within the imaging sequences.

The X64-CL Full gives machine vision application developers the ability to combine color and monochrome acquisition on a single board. Developers can perform critical pixel transformations during the acquisition process saving valuable preprocessing time.

Embedded timing logic within the ACU identifies each acquired image with a time code, allowing image data to be readily correlated with physical objects on the production line.

Capable of acquiring images at rates up to 255MB/s per channel (510MB total), the X64-CLFull makes image acquisition from the new generation of CMOS and multi-tap CCD camras more efficient and cost effective. The board supports fixed and variable size frames ranging up to 256KB horizontal pixels per line and up to 16 million vertical lines per frame for area scan cameras. Precise timing controls allow frame size adjustments in steps of 8 pixels/step for horizontal lines and in steps of one line/step vertically. In conjuction with an onboard quadrature shaft-encoder input, the ACU acquires images from a linescan camera at a rate that is locked to the speed of the web. The X64 -CL shaft-encoder feature now supports cascaded divide and multiply to further increase the step resolution. More accurate step resolution results in a higher quality image that makes processing algorithms more accurate and tolerant to motion artifacts. One feature of particuliar interest to OEMs developing webscanning applications is the X64-CL's ability to support infinite length frames from a linescan camera, which enables 100 percent line capture as well as repeatable accuracy and faster execution times.

Delivering fast and secure data transfer with zero CPU usage, the X64-CL-Full's Data Transfer Engine (DTE) features high speed memory interface, multiple independent Direct Memory Access (DMA), and onboard tap descriptors, the DTE's powerful architecture delivers robust performance for critical machine vision tasks.

The DMAs allow the DTE to transfer images from the acquisition control unit to local frame buffer memory, or transfer the same image to multiple addresses in the host memory. The ACU and DTE use the onboard memory to perform these operations concurrently, yet at different rates, yielding optimal utilization of system bandwidth. Moreover, the X64-CL Full now supports up to 2GB of onboard memory for higher speed frame rate cameras.

Designed to simplify machine vision tasks, the DTE is also responsible for on-the-fly input tap adjustments for directions, pixel overlap and under lap. This enables the DTE to deliver images that are ready for processing while freeing up the host CPU for other image analysis tasks.

Conventional PCI bus transfers utilizing scatter-gather techniques rely on the CPU to load the host frame buffer destination memory addresses during live acquisition, which increases the load on the CPU and slows image-processing tasks. The DTE offloads this task by using a sophisticated control unit to automatically capture and store the destination frame buffer addresses from the host memory. In addition, the control unit performs autonomous and robust image transfers to ensure data integrity during continuous image acquisition in non-real-time operating systems, such as Windows®XP, Windows®2000 and Windows NT®.

The X64-CLFull is fully supported by DALSA's Sapera™ LT software development libraries enabling applications to be developed under Windows NT®, Windows®2000, and Windows®XP. Sapera LT allows users to develop applications with C language DLLs, C++® classes or Active X®controls for Microsoft®Visual C/C++®6.0 (or higher) or Visual Basic® 6.0 (or higher) development platforms.

Sapera LT's advanced image acquisition and control functions are an integral part of DALSA's stringent Trigger-to-Image Reliability technology framework. Sapera LT offers users a single API across DALSA's current and future hardware platform, to deliver a comprehensive feature set including program portability, versatile camera controls, flexible display functionality and management, and easy to use application development wizards

Sapera LT (ver. 5.0) comes bundled with DALSA's advanced CamExpert, a proprietary camera configuration utility specifically designed to leverage the power of DALSA's image acquisition boards. This Windows-based utility provides an interactive environment within which to create a new, or modify an existing, configuration file for area and linescan applications

For image processing and analysis DALSA offers Sapera Processing. Fully integrated with Sapera LT functionality, Sapera Processing is a dynamic Windows-based comprehensive programming library. Hardware independent and designed to simplify vision application development, Sapera Processing is based on a set of high performance C++ classes and uses MMX, SSE (streaming SIMD Extensions), and SSE2 to meet the challenging operational requirements of today's imaging systems. Scalable in design, Sapera Processing offers a comprehensive set of optimized tools, available as a suite or standalone, including image processing, search (pattern matching), OCR, barcode decoding, and blob analysis. Sapera LT and Sapera Processing combine seamlessly to deliver a powerful and easy to use development resource for advanced image acquisition, processing, and analysis.

Similar Models:
X64-CL Express: 2 base or 1 inputs; Pixel Clock upto 85 MHz; PCIe x1 Host Bus.
X64- CL iPro: 2 Base or 1 Medium Inputs; Pixel Clock upto 85 MHz; PCI-64/PCI-X 66 Host Bus.
X64- AN Quad: RS 170, CCIR, or progressive = 4 independent; Pixel Clock upto 50 MHz; PCI-64/PCI-X 66 Host Bus.
X64- LVDS: up to 8 taps Inputs; Pixel Clock up to 75 MHz; PCI- 64/PCI-X 66 Host Bus.