Viper- CamLink KEY BENEFITS Performance OVERVIEW • Supports wide range of digital area and line-scan multi-tap cameras Embedded • Enhances image transfer bandwidth beyond 132 Mbytes/sec using CAB Next generation of intelligent frame grabbers Expansion The Viper-CamLink is a single PCI slot, high performance acquisition and pre-processing board • Dedicated hardware that captures images from digital cameras utilizing the industry standard Camera Link accelerator permits real-time image processing interface. Viper-CamLink supports all three Camera Link modes of operation (Base, Medium, and Full) allowing it to acquire images from one, two, four or eight tap area and line-scan Compatibility • On-board hardware based digital, monochrome or RGB cameras. RLE, Flat-line Correction www.imaging.com To embedded Vision Processors CAB 24 Data / FVAL 4 Data ACU / Camera Link LVAL & Acquisition Grab DVAL Receiver 2 Controls SPARE Control / CLK Unit Pixel Processor LVDS 4 (optional) / Drivers TX Pixel Packer RX UART #1 MUX MUX 24 Data / FVAL 4 Data / Camera Link LVAL & Grab DVAL 2 Receiver Controls / SPARE CLK MUX Time Base 24 Data / Grab Data 4 FVAL / & Controller Camera Link LVAL Grab 2 DVA; Controls / Receiver SPARE CLK Video to PCI Bridge TTL 4 Driver & GIOs / Receivers Memory i960RP (4 - 128 MB) 2 Trigger Input / TTL/ IO Controller 2 A / LVDS Shaft Encoder 2 Receivers B / Host PCI Bus Viper-CamLink Functional Block Diagram TAP Reversal Viper-CamLink Specifications The Viper-CamLink supports tap reversal in the following ways:. Area or Line-Scan Camera Capable of acquiring at rates up to 200 Mbytes/sec, the Data out of Camera Rasterized Data Grabbed Viper-CamLink features two 32-bit wide input channels providing tap 1 tap 2 8, 16, or 32 bit/pixel formats. Acquiring pixels at 500MHz, the Viper-CamLink can transfer images directly into host computer system memory or to the Mamba using the CAB. The Viper-CamLink supports input resolutions from 32x32 to 64k pixels x 256, lines. Rasterization of 2 output centre-tap format cameras The i960 - No RISC factor Data out of Camera Rasterized Data Grabbed The Viper-CamLink utilizes the Intel i960 RISC embedded processor and PCI interface device. As an intelligent I/O controller, the i960 processor supports PCI bus master and tap 1 tap 2 scatter-gather for maximum PCI performance. Additionally, its on-board memory allows images to be buffered during busy cycles on the PCI bus, ensuring no image data is ever lost. tap 3 tap 4 CAB Architecture General purpose I/Os The Coreco Auxiliary Bus (CAB) is an independent high-speed 32 The Viper-CamLink provides general-purpose I/Os for external bit-wide transfer bus that allows connections to Coreco Imaging’s process control and synchronization. These I/Os are available as embedded vision processor (Mamba-100) or dedicated hardware TTL or LVDS. accelerator such as the Pixel Processor. Pixel Processor CAB System Topologies The Pixel Processor is an optional daughter card optimized for powerful image processing using the Viper series. The board The CAB system on the Viper-CamLink is designed to operate in features an input port, output port, up to 64 MB of memory and two different configurations. These topologies allow developers to a programmable processor core to pre-process (filter, average, adapt their image processing algorithms to leverage multiple compress) image data acquired by the Viper before images are parallel processors or pipeline processing technique to gain a transferred to the host or the Mamba-100 for final processing several fold increase in processing performance. and analysis. Multicast Mode Software Support The CAB Multicast mode allows images to be sent for concurrent processing to several Mamba-100 boards simultaneously. Viper-CamLink applications are developed under Windows NT, Multicast mode can also be used to perform pipeline processing. R Windows 2000, and Windows NT™ Embedded using Coreco Imaging’s Sapera software development libraries. Coreco Imaging Round Robin Mode software development tools allow users to develop applications The CAB Round-robin mode allows successive images to be sent R R with C language DLLs, C++ classes, or ActiveX controls on from a Viper-CamLink to different Mamba-100 boards in the R R R Microsoft Visual C/C++ 6.0 or higher or Visual Basic 6.0 or system for concurrent processing. For example, the higher development platforms. Viper-CamLink, while grabbing continuously, can transfer the first image (WAN). The Mamba-100’s LAN and WAN connectivity Specifications permits remote monitoring and maintenance of the system. • Full length PCI 2.1 compliant board Additionally, the Mamba-100 features two host-independent serial • Supports Base, Medium and Full Camera Link implementation ports to control and communicate with external devices. • Supports 8, 16, or 32-bit monochrome or 24-bit RGB digital Mamba System Description cameras • Sampling clock up to 50 MHz A corner stone of Coreco Imaging’s embedded vision processing • Up to 8-taps 8-bit/tap architecture, the Viper-CamLink integrates seamlessly with the Mamba-100. The Mamba-100 is a PIII based embedded vision • Versatile support for horizontal, vertical and diagonal (corner fold) taps processor board capable of operating at CPU clock rates of up to 1 GHz. As shown in the system architecture diagram on the • Supports Pixel-Processor previous page, images captured via the Viper series of embedded • TTL or LVDS I/O signals frame grabbers can be treated in advance by the Pixel Processor • CAB interface for maximum 32 bits @ 50 MHz bandwidth when before being transferred to the Mamba-100. Alternatively, raw transferring images image data can be directly transferred to the Mamba. • Supports Coreco Imaging’s Sapera and SMART series of image processing libraries Shaft encoder R R • Software development toolkits support Microsoft Visual C/C++ R The Viper-CamLink features quadrature-shaft encoder inputs 6.0 or higher under Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 facilitating accurate image grabs using linescan cameras. 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