Grablink Duo
Frame grabber for one full- or two base-configuration Camera Link cameras
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Grablink Duo
The Highlight Features
- For two independent Camera Link Base configuration cameras or one Camera Link Base, Medium, Full, 72-bit or 80-bit camera
- Directly compatible with hundreds of Camera Link cameras available on the market
- PoCL, Power over Camera Link
- ECCO: Extended Camera Link cable length
- PCIe Gen 2 x4 bus
- Feature-rich set of 20 digital IO lines
- Compatible with eGrabber driver and Memento Event Logging Tool
Benefits
- Compatible with eGrabber
- ECCO+: Extended Camera Link Cable Operation
- Directly compatible with hundreds of Camera Link cameras available on the market
- High-performance DMA (Direct Memory Access)
- Area-scan triggering capabilities
- Line-scan triggering capabilities 1/2
- Line-scan triggering capabilities 2/2
- Flexible line-scan camera operation with the rate converter
- General purpose I/O lines
- Memento Event Logging Tool
- C2C-Link camera synchronization
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
| Model | Grablink Duo |
|---|---|
| Format | Standard profile, half length, 4-lane PCI Express card |
| Cooling method | Air cooling, fan-cooled heatsink |
| Mounting | For insertion in a standard height, 4-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot |
| Connectors | 1. 'A' on bracket: • 26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket • Camera Link camera #1 Base connector 2. 'B' on bracket: • 26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket • Camera Link camera #1 Medium/Full/72-bit/80-bit connector • Camera Link camera #2 Base connector 3. 'EXTERNAL I/O' on bracket: • 26-pin 3-row high-density female sub-D connector • I/O lines and power output 4. 'INTERNAL I/O 1' on PCB: • 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding • I/O lines and power output 5. 'INTERNAL I/O 2' on PCB: • 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding • I/O lines and power output 6. 'I/O EXTENSION' on PCB: • 26-pin 2-row 0.05" pitch pin header with shrouding • I/O extension lines and power output 7. 'AUXILIARY POWER INPUT' on PCB: • 6-pin PEG power socket • 12 VDC power input for PoCL camera(s) and I/O power output 8. 'C2C-LINK' on PCB: • 6-pin 2-row 0.1-in header • Card to card link |
| Dimensions | PCB L X H: 167.65 mm x 111.15 mm, 6.6 in x 4.38 in |
| Weight | 150 g, 5.29 oz |
| Standard | PCI Express 2.0 |
| Link width | -4 lanes -1 lane or 2 lanes with reduced performance |
| Link speed | -5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0) -2.5 GT/s (PCIe 1.0) with reduced performance |
| Maximum payload size | 512 bytes |
| Peak delivery bandwidth | 2,000 MB/s |
| Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth | 1,700 MB/s (Host PC motherboard dependent) |
| Power consumption | Typ. 7.1 W ( 2.7 W @ +3.3V, 4.4 W @ +12V), excluding camera and I/O power output |
| 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 | 1. One 80-bit / 72-bit / Full / Medium / Base configuration camera 2. Or two Base configuration cameras |
| Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate | 6.8 Gbit/s (850 MB/s) |
| Camera Link configuration | Base, Medium, Full, 72-bit, 80-bit |
| Camera Link clock frequency | From 20 MHz up to 85 MHz |
| PoCL (Power over Camera Link) | 1. PoCL Safe Power: o Two independent controllers o PoCL Device detection and automatic power-on o Overload and short-circuit protection 2. A +12V power source must be connected to the AUXILIARY POWER INPUT connector using a 6-pin PEG cable |
| Camera types | 1. Area-scan cameras: o Grayscale and color (RGB and Bayer CFA) 2. Line-scan cameras: o Grayscale and color RGB |
| Camera pixel formats supported | • Mono8, Mono10, Mono12, Mono14, Mono16 • BayerXX8, BayerXX10, BayerXX12, BayerXX14, BayerXX16 where XX = GR, RG, GB, or BG • RGB8, RGB10, RGB12, RGB14, RGB16 NOTE: Contact us for availability |
| 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 memory | 512 MB |
| 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 to 8-bit transformation • Monochrome 10-bit to 8-, 10- or 16-bit transformations • Monochrome 12-bit to 8-, 12- or 16-bit transformations |
| Bayer CFA to RGB decoder | Advanced interpolation method using average and median functions on a 3x3 kernel NOTE: Contact us for availability |
| Data stream statistics | 1. Measurement of: o Frame rate (Area-scan only) o Line rate o Data rate 2. Configurable averaging interval |
| Event signaling and counting | 1. 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 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 lines | 20 I/O lines: • 4 differential inputs (DIN) • 4 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs (TTLIO) • 8 isolated inputs (IIN) • 4 isolated outputs (IOUT) NOTE: The number of I/O lines can be extended using I/O modules attached to the I/O EXTENSION connector. |
| 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 |
| 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: 200 kHz isolated current-sense input with wide voltage input range up to 30V, compatible with totem-pole (push-pull) HTL drivers, 5V TTL/RS-422 differential line drivers, 5V CMOS 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 | • Glitch removal filter available on all System I/O input lines • 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 control | Yes |
| Power output | Non-isolated, +12V, 1A, with electronic fuse protection |
| I/O Toolbox tools | The I/O Toolbox is a configurable interconnection of tools that generates events (usually triggers): • Line Input tool (LIN): edge detector delivering events on rising or falling edges of any selected input line. • 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. • 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. • 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). • Divider tool (DIV): to generate an event every nth input events from any I/O toolbox event source. • Multiplier/divider tool (MDV): to generate m events every d input events from any I/O toolbox event source. • The 'Input Tools' (LIN, QDC 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 composition | Determined 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 • '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 |
| 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. |
| Specification | 1. 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 |
| APIs | • 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 • 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 'aarch6'4 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of AArch64 (64-bit) applications • GenICam GenCP generic control protocol (for cameras featuring GenCP) |
| 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 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 55035:2017 / CISPR 35:2016 • EN 61000-6-2:2005 / IEC 61000-6-2:2016 • EN 61000-4-2:2009 • EN 61000-4-3:2006 • EN 61000-4-4:2004 • 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 |
