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Coaxlink Quad G3

PCIe 3.0 four-connection CoaXPress frame grabber

Coaxlink Quad G3

The Highlight Features

  • Four CoaXPress CXP-6 connections: 2,500 MB/s camera bandwidth
  • PCIe 3.0 (Gen 3) x4 bus: 3,300 MB/s bus bandwidth
  • Feature-rich set of 20 digital I/O lines
  • Extensive camera control functions
  • Memento Event Logging Tool

Benefits

  • PCIe 3.0 (Gen 3) x4 bus
  • Cooling method
  • Acquire images from the fastest and highest resolution cameras
  • Long cable support
  • Use standard coaxial cables
  • Robust connectors for reliable connections
  • Connect up to 4 cameras to a single Coaxlink card
  • Memento Event Logging Tool
  • Direct GPU transfer
  • General purpose I/O lines
  • High-performance DMA (Direct Memory Access)
  • Area-scan triggering capabilities
  • Flexible line-scan camera operation with the rate converter
  • Compatible with eGrabber
  • Compliant with Genicam
  • Windows, Linux and macOS drivers available

Applications

  • Machine Vision for the Electronic Manufacturing Industry
  • Machine Vision for the General Manufacturing Industries
  • Machine Vision for the Printing Industry
  • Video Acquisition and Recording
  • Video Monitoring, Surveillance & Security
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ModelCoaxlink Quad G3
FormatStandard profile, half length, 4-lane PCI Express card
Cooling methodAir cooling, fan-cooled heatsink
MountingFor insertion in a standard height, 4-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot
Connectors1. 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' on bracket:
o 4x DIN 1.0/2.3 female connectors
o CoaXPress host interface
2. 'EXTERNAL I/O' on bracket:
o 26-pin 3-row high-density female sub-D connector
o I/O lines and power output
3. 'INTERNAL I/O 1' and 'INTERNAL I/O 2' on PCB:
o 2x 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding
o I/O lines and power output
4. 'AUXILIARY POWER INPUT' on module:
o 6-pin PEG power socket
o 12 VDC power input for PoCXP camera(s) and I/O power
5. 'C2C-LINK' on module:
o 6-pin 2-row 0.1-in header
o Card to card link
LED indicators1. 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' on bracket:
o Bi-color red/green LEDs
o CoaXPress Host connector indicator
2. 'FPGA STATUS LAMP' on PCB:
o Bi-color red/green LED
o FPGA status indicator
3. 'BOARD STATUS LAMP' on PCB:
o Bi-color red/green LED
o Board status indicator
Switches'RECOVERY' on card PCB:
• 3-pin 1-row 0.1" header
• Firmware emergency recovery
DimensionsPCB L X H: 167.65 mm x 111.15 mm, 6.6 in x 4.38 in
Weight
180 g, 6.35 oz
StandardPCI Express 3.0
Link width• 4 lanes
• 1 lane or 2 lanes with reduced performance
Link speed• 8.0 GT/s (PCIe 3.0)
• 5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0) with reduced performance
Maximum payload size512 bytes
DMA32- and 64-bit
Peak delivery bandwidth3,900 MB/s
Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth3,350 MB/s (Host PC motherboard dependent)
Power consumptionTyp. 16.8 W (3.8 W @ +3.3V, 13 W @ +12V), excluding camera and I/O power output
Interface standard(s)CoaXPress 1.0, 1.1 and 1.1.1
ConnectorsFour DIN1.0/2.3 75 Ohms CXP-6
Status LEDsOne CoaXPress Host connection status LED per connection
Number of cameras• Area-scan cameras:
– One 1- or 2- or 4-connection camera
– One 1- or 2- or 4-connection multi-stream camera (up to 4 data streams)
– One or two 1- or 2-connection cameras
– One 1- or 2-connection and one or two 1-connection cameras
– Up to four 1-connection cameras
– One 4-connection sub-link of an 8-connection camera
• Line-scan cameras:
– One 1- or 2- or 4-connection camera
– One or two 1- or 2-connection cameras
– Up to four 1-connection cameras
Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate25 Gbit/s (2,500 MB/s)
Supported CXP down-connection speeds1.25 GT/s (CXP-1), 2.5 GT/s (CXP-2), 3.125 GT/s (CXP-3), 5 GT/s (CXP-5), and 6.25 GT/s (CXP-6)
Number of CXP data streams (per camera)• 4 (1-camera, 4 data-stream firmware variant)
• 1 per camera (other firmware variants)
Maximum CXP stream packet size16,384 bytes
PoCXP (Power over CoaXPress)1. PoCXP Safe Power:
o 17 W of 24V DC regulated power per CoaXPress connector
o PoCXP Device detection and automatic power-on
o Overload and short-circuit protections
2. On-board 12V to 24V DC/DC converter
3. A +12V power source must be connected to the AUXILIARY POWER INPUT connector using a 6-pin PEG cable
Camera types1. Area-scan cameras:
o Grayscale and color (YCbCr, YUV, RGB and Bayer CFA)
o Single-tap (1X-1Y) progressive-scan
2. Line-scan cameras and contact imaging sensors:
o Grayscale and color RGB
Camera pixel formats supported1. Mono8, Mono10, Mono12, Mono14, Mono16
2. BayerXX8, BayerXX10, BayerXX12, BayerXX14, BayerXX16 where XX = GR, RG, GB, or BG
3. RGB8, RGB10, RGB12, RGB14, RGB16
4. RGBA8, RGBA10, RGBA12, RGBA14, RGBA16
5. YCbCr601_422_8, YCbCr601_422_10
6. YCbCr709_422_8, YCbCr709_422_10
7. YUV422_8, YUV422_10
8. Raw
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 Conversion Ratio in the range 0.001 to 1000 with an accuracy better than 0.1%.
• Rate Divider tool
Line strobe• Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.
On-board memory1 GB
Image data stream processing1. Unpacking of 10-/12-/14-bit to 16-bit with selectable justification to LSb or MSb
2. Optional swap of R and B components
3. Little endian conversion
Input LUT (Lookup Table)Only available for monochrome cameras on all the firmware variants but '1-camera, 4-data- stream':
• 8to8bits
• 10to8,10or16bits
• 12 to 8, 12 or 16 bits
Bayer CFA to RGB decoder1. '1-camera' firmware variant:
o 3x3 linear interpolation method
o 3x3 median-based interpolation method
2. '2-camera' firmware variant:
o 5x5 gradient-based interpolation method (for one camera only)
Data stream statistics1. Measurement of:
o Frame rate (Area-scan only)
o Line rate
o Data rate
2. Configurable averaging interval
Event signaling and counting1. The application software can be notified of the occurrence of various events:
o Standard event: the EVENT_NEW_BUFFER event notifies the application of newly filled buffers
o A large set of custom events
2. Custom events sources:
o I/O Toolbox events
o Camera and Illumination control events
o CoaXPress data stream events
o CoaXPress host interface events
3. Each custom event is associated with a 32-bit counter that counts the number of occurrences
4. The last three 32-bit context data words of the event context data can be configured with event-specific context data:
o Event-specific data
o State of all System I/O lines sampled at the event occurrence time
o Value of any event counter
Number of lines20 I/O lines:
• 4 differential inputs (DIN)
• 4 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs (TTLIO)
• 8 isolated inputs (IIN)
• 4 isolated outputs (IOUT)
Usage• Any I/O input lines can be used by any LIN tool of the I/O Toolbox
• Selected pairs of I/O input lines can be used by any QDC tool of the I/O toolbox to decode A/B signals of a motion encoder
• The LIN and QDC tools outputs can be further processed by the other tools (DIV, MDV, DEL) of the I/O toolbox to generate any of the following "trigger" events:
– The "cycle trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller
– The "cycle sequence trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller – The "start-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only) – The "end-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)
Electrical specifications• DIN: High-speed differential inputs compatible with ANSI/EIA/TIA-422/485 differential line drivers and complementary TTL drivers
• TTLIO: High-speed 5V-compliant TTL inputs or LVTTL outputs, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers or LVTTL, TTL, 3V CMOS receivers
• 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 control1. Glitch removal filter available on all System I/O input lines
2. Configurable filter time constants:
o for DIN and TTLIO lines: 50 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns, 1 µs
o for IIN lines: 500 ns, 1 µs, 2 µs, 5 µs, 10 µs
Polarity controlYes
Power outputNon-isolated, +12V, 1A, with electronic fuse protection
I/O Toolbox toolsThe I/O Toolbox is a configurable interconnection of tools that generates events (usually triggers):
1. Line Input tool (LIN): edge detector delivering events on rising or falling edges of any selected input line.
2. Quadrature Decoder tool (QDC): a composite tool including:
o A quadrature edge detector delivering events on selected transitions of selected pairs of input lines.
o An optional backward motion compensator for clean line-scan image acquisition when the motion is unstable.
o A 32-bit up/down counter for delivering a position value.
3. Device Link Trigger tool (DLT): delivers an event on reception of a valid high-speed CoaXPress 2.0 connection trigger packet message from the remote device.
4. User Actions Scheduler tool (UAS): to delegate the execution of 'User Actions' at a scheduled time or encoder position. Possible user actions include setting low/high/toggle any bit of the User Output Register or generation of any User Events.
5. Delay tool (DEL): to delay up to 16 events from one or two I/O toolbox event sources, by a programmable time or number of motion encoder ticks (any QDC events).
6. Divider tool (DIV): to generate an event every nth input events from any I/O toolbox event source.
7. Multiplier/divider tool (MDV): to generate m events every d input events from any I/O toolbox event source.
8. The 'Input Tools' (LIN, QDC, DLT and UAS) can be further processed by the 'Event Tools' (DEL, DIV and MDV) to generate any of the following "trigger" events:
o The "cycle trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller
o The "cycle sequence trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller
o The "start-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)
o The "end-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)
I/O Toolbox compositionDetermined by the selected firmware variant:
• '1-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 C2C
• '2-camera': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 C2C
• '3-camera': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 C2C
• '4-camera': 8 LIN, 4 QDC, 1 UAS, 4 DEL, 4 DIV, 4 MDV, 2 C2C
• '1-camera, 4-data-stream': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 C2C
• '1-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C
• '2-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 3 C2C
• '4-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 4 QDC, 1 UAS, 4 DEL, 4 DIV, 4 MDV, 3 C2C
• '1-slm-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C
• '1-sls-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C
C2C-Link
Description• Accurate synchronization of the trigger and the start-of-exposure of multiple grabber- controlled area-scan cameras.
• Accurate synchronization of the start-of-cycle, start-of-scan and end-of-scan of multiple grabber-controlled line-scan cameras.
Specification1. C2C-Link synchronizes cameras connected to:
o the same card
o to different cards in the same PC (requires an accessory cable such as the "3303 C2C-Link Ribbon Cable" or a custom-made C2C-Link cable)
o to different cards in different PCs (requires one "1636 InterPC C2C-Link Adapter" for each PC and one RJ 45 CAT 5 STP straight LAN cable for each adapter but the last one)
2. Maximum distance:
o 60 cm inside a PC
o 1200 m cumulated adapter to adapter cable length
3. Maximum trigger rate:
o 2.5 MHz for configurations using a single PC, or up to 10 PCs and 100 m total C2C-Link cable length
o 200 kHz for configurations up to 32 PCs and 1200m total C2C-Link cable length
4. Trigger propagation delay from master to slave devices:
o Less than 10 ns for cameras on the same card or on different cards in the same PC
o Less than 265 ns for cameras on different cards in different PCs (3 PCs and 40m total C2C-Link cable length)
Software
Host PC Operating System• Microsoft Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 7 for x86-64 (64-bit) processor architecture
• Linux for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures
• macOS for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures
APIs1. EGrabber class, with C++ and .NET APIs: .NET assembly designed to be used with development environments compatible with .NET frameworks version 4.0 or higher
2. GenICam GenTL producer libraries compatible with C/C++ compilers:
o 'x86_64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86-64 (64-bit) applications
o 'aarch64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of AArch64 (64-bit) applications
Environmental conditions
Operating ambient air temperature0 to +55 °C / +32 to +131 °F
Operating ambient air humidity10 to 90% RH non-condensing
Storage ambient air temperature-20 to +70 °C/ -4 to +158 °F
Storage ambient air humidity10% to 90% RH non-condensing
Certifications
Electromagnetic - EMC standards• European Council EMC Directive 2014/30/EU
• United States FCC rule 47 CFR 15
EMC - Emission• EN 55032:2015 / CISPR 32:2012 Class B
• FCC 47 Part 15 Class B
EMC - Immunity• EN 55024:2010 / CISPR 24:2010
• EN 61000-4-2:2009
• EN 61000-4-3:2006
• EN 61000-4-4:2004
• EN 61000-4-6:2014
FlammabilityPCB compliant with UL 94 V-0
KC CertificationKorean Radio Waves Act, Article 58-2, Clause 3
RoHSEuropean Union Directive 2015/863 (ROHS3)
REACHEuropean Union Regulation 1907/2006
WEEEMust be disposed of separately from normal household waste and must be recycled according to local regulations

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