Description and Features

Grablink Base is a cost-effective full-featured frame grabber for one Camera Link camera applications. It supports Base- or Lite-configuration Camera Link cameras. Grablink Base features on-board processing, such as LUTs and a Bayer CFA decoder, and one rich sets of I/O lines compatible with a wide range of sensors and encoders. Grablink Base features a 1-lane PCI Express bus.

Camera Link interface
- One Base or Lite Camera Link camera
- The full data rate range is supported: from 20 MHz up to 85 MHz
- PoCL SafePower compliant frame grabber
- Four fully-configurable upstream control lines
- Serial communication interface (600 ~230400 bit/s)
Supported camera classes
- Monochrome, Bayer CFA, and color RGB progressive area-scan cameras
- Monochrome and color RGB line-scan cameras
On-board processing
- Image reconstruction: tap re-ordering, H/V flipping, cropping
- 3 look-up table transformation and Bayer CFA decoder
- High-performance up to 200 Megabytes/s DMA transfers (application and motherboard dependent) into user allocated memory with both 64-bit addressing capability and image cropping capability
10 digital I/O lines compatible with a wide range of sensors and encoders including quadrature incremental motion decoders
- They form a rich set of I/O lines with:
  - Two high-speed differential RS-422 inputs
  - Four individually-isolated wide-voltage-range inputs
  - Four individually-isolated contact outputs
- +5V and + 12V power output with electronic fuse protection
Mechanical specification
- 1-lane half-length PCI Express add-on board
- Bracket with:
  - One mini Camera Link SDR connector
  - One external system I/O connector on standard-profile bracket
  - One dual-LED indicator
- Internal system I/O connector
ECCO: Extended Camera Link Cable Operation
- Go beyond Camera Link specifications at no additional cost!
- Operate with 30% longer cables, achieve 30% higher speed or use less costly cables

Camera Link frequency vs. cable length with Grablink Base featuring ECCO