Grablink DualBase
Frame grabber for two base-configuration Camera Link cameras
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Grablink DualBase
The Highlight Features
- For two Camera Link Base or Lite configuration cameras
- Directly compatible with hundreds of Camera Link cameras available on the market
- Supports PoCL, Power over Camera Link
- ECCO: Extended Camera Link cable length
- PCIe x4 bus: 850 MB/s sustained delivery bandwidth
- Feature-rich set of 20 digital IO lines
Benefit
- ECCO: Extended Camera Link Cable Operation
- Directly compatible with hundreds of Camera Link cameras available on the market
- General purpose I/O lines
- High-performance DMA (Direct Memory Access)
- Area-scan triggering capabilities
- Line-scan triggering capabilities
- Flexible line-scan camera operation with the rate converter
- Windows and Linux drivers available
- Video Acquisition and Recording
| Format | Standard profile, half length, 4-lane PCI Express card |
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| Cooling method | Air-cooling, fanless |
| Mounting | For insertion in a standard height, 4-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot |
| Connectors | 1. 'A' on bracket: o 26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket o Camera Link Camera A 2. 'B' on bracket: o 26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket o Camera Link Camera B 3. 'EXTERNAL I/O' on bracket: o 26-pin 3-row high-density female sub-D connector o I/O lines and power output 4. 'INTERNAL I/O A on PCB: o 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding o I/O lines of camera A and power output 5. 'INTERNAL I/O B on PCB: o 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding o I/O lines of camera B and power output 6. 'POWER INPUT' on module: o 4-pin MOLEX power socket o 12 VDC power input for PoCL cameras and I/O power |
| Dimensions | PCB L X H: 167.65 mm x 111.15 mm, 6.6 in x 4.38 in |
| Weight | 137 g, 4.83 oz |
| Standard | PCI Express 1.0 |
| Link width | 4 lanes |
| Link speed | 2.5 GT/s (PCIe 1.0) |
| Maximum payload size | 1024 bytes |
| DMA | 32- and 64-bit |
| Peak delivery bandwidth | 1,024 MB/s |
| Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth | • Up to 833 MB/s for a PCI Express payload size of 256 bytes and 64-bit addressing • Up to 844 MB/s for a PCI Express payload size of 256 bytes and 32-bit addressing • Up to 754 MB/s for a PCI Express payload size of 128 bytes and 64-bit addressing • Up to 780 MB/s for a PCI Express payload size of 128 bytes and 32-bit addressing |
| Power consumption | Max.7.2 W; Typ. 6.0 W (0.47 A @ 3.3V;0.37 A @+12V) |
| Interface standard(s) | Camera Link 2.0 |
| Connectors | Two Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) Miniature Camera Link (MiniCL) |
| ECCO - Extended Camera Link Cable Operation | ECCO |
| Number of cameras | Two Base or Lite cameras |
| Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate | 4.08 Gbit/s (510 MB/s) |
| Camera Link configuration | Base or Lite |
| Camera Link clock frequency | From 20 MHz up to 85 MHz |
| PoCL (Power over Camera Link) | Two independent PoCL SafePower compliant controllers with overload, over-voltage and short-circuit protection |
| Camera types | • Grayscale and color (RGB and Bayer) cameras • Area-scan and line-scan cameras |
| Area-scan camera control | |
| Trigger | • Precise control of asynchronous reset cameras, with exposure control. • Support of camera exposure/readout overlap. • Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay and trigger decimation. |
| Strobe | • Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources. • Support of early and late strobe pulses. |
| Line-scan camera control | |
| Scan/page trigger | • Precise control of start-of-scan and end-of-scan triggers. • Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay. • Support of infinite acquisition, without missing line, for web inspection applications |
| Line trigger | • Support for quadrature motion encoders, with programmable noise filters, selection of acquisition direction and backward motion compensation. • Rate Converter tool for fine control of the pixel aspect ratio. • Rate Divider tool |
| Line strobe | Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources. |
| On-board memory | 128 MB (64 MB for image data) |
| Image data stream processing | Unpacking of 10-/12-/14-bit to 16-bit with selectable justification to LSb or MSb |
| Input LUT (Lookup Table) | Monochrome: 8-bit, 10-bit or 12-bit per pixel, up to 500 MPixel/s per camera • RGB: 3x8-bit per pixel, up to 125 MPixel/s per camera |
| Bayer CFA to RGB decoder | • Advanced interpolation method using average and median functions on a3x3 kernel • Up to 125 MPixel/s per camera |
| Number of lines | 2 sets of 10 I/O lines, each set including: • 2 differential inputs (DIN) • 4 isolated inputs (IIN) • 4 isolated outputs (IOUT) |
| Usage | 1. Each acquisition channel has a dedicated set of 10 I/O's o The I/O set of INTERNAL IO CONNECTOR A is dedicated to the acquisition channel of CAMERA A o The I/O set of INTERNAL IO CONNECTOR B is dedicated to the acquisition channel of CAMERA B 2. The input lines of an I/O set can be used by the corresponding acquisition channel as: o Camera frame trigger source (area-scan only) o Acquisition sequence trigger source (area-scan only) o Camera line trigger source (line-scan only) o Page acquisition trigger source (line-scan only) o Page acquisition end trigger source (line-scan only) o (Quadrature) motion encoder input (line-scan only) 3. The IOUT 1 output line of an I/O set can be used by the corresponding acquisition channel, as: o Illumination strobe output 4. All the input lines can be used as general purpose inputs 5. All the output lines can be used as general purpose outputs |
| Electrical specifications | • DIN: High-speed differential inputs compatible with ANSI/EIA/TIA-422/485 differential line drivers and complementary TTL drivers • IIN: Isolated current-sense inputs with wide voltage input range up to 30V, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers, RS-422 differential line drivers, potential free contacts, solid-state relays and opto-couplers • IOUT: Isolated contact outputs compatible with 30V / 100mA loads NOTE: IIN and IOUT lines provide a functional isolation grade for the circuit technical protection. It does not provide an isolation that can protect a human being from electrical shock! |
| Filter control | 1. Glitch removal filter available only on input lines used as trigger sources 2. Configurable with five time constants: o 100 ns, 500 ns, and 2.5 µs for trigger / page trigger / page end trigger sources o 40 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns, 1 µs, 5 µs, 10 µs for line trigger sources |
| Power output | Non-isolated, +5V, 1A and +12V, 1A, with electronic fuse protection |
| Software | |
| Host PC Operating System | • Microsoft Windows 10, 8.1, 7 for x86 (32-bit) and x86-64 (64-bit) processor architectures • Linux for x86 (32-bit) and x86-64 (64-bit) processor architectures |
| APIs | • MultiCam 32- and 64-bit binary libraries (Windows and Linux), for ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers |
| Environmental conditions | |
| Operating ambient air temperature | 0 to +50 °C / +32 to +122 °F |
| Operating ambient air humidity | 10 to 90% RH non-condensing |
| Storage ambient air temperature | -20 to +70 °C/ -4 to +158 °F |
| Storage ambient air humidity | 10% to 90% RH non-condensing |
| Certifications | |
| Electromagnetic - EMC standards | • European Council EMC Directive 2004/108/EC • United States FCC rule 47 CFR 15 |
| EMC - Emission | • EN 55022:2010 / CISPR 22:2008 Class B • EN 55032:2015 / CISPR 32:2012 Class B • FCC 47 Part 15 Class B |
| EMC - Immunity | • EN 55024:2010 / CISPR 24:2010 • EN 55035:2017 / CISPR 35:2016 • EN 61000-4-2:2009 • EN 61000-4-3:2006 • EN 61000-4-4:2004 • EN 61000-4-5:2014 • EN 61000-4-6:2014 |
| KC Certification | Korean Radio Waves Act, Article 58-2, Clause 3 |
| Flammability | PCB compliant with UL 94 V-0 |
| RoHS | European Union Directive 2015/863 (ROHS3) |
| REACH | European Union Regulation 1907/2006 |
| WEEE | Must be disposed of separately from normal household waste and must be recycled according to local regulations |
