Description
Designed for industrial applications, Grablink Express acquires images from digital cameras complying with the Camera Link standard. Line-scan and progressive area-scan, grayscale and RGB color cameras can be interfaced in applications using a Grablink Express board.
Grablink Express interfaces to Base configuration Camera Link cameras rated from 20 to 85 MHz, single, dual or quadruple tap, with 8-, 10-, 12-, 14- and 16-bit data.
Grablink Express is a switchable PoCL —Power over Camera Link— frame grabber. Once connected to a camera, it automatically detects and powers the camera if this one and its cable are PoCL capable, otherwise the power supply is disable.
Grablink Express has an on-board 32 MB memory and is available as a 1-lane (x1) PCI Express board that offers 180 MByte/s of data delivery bandwidth. It fully complies with FCC and CE EMC —electromagnetic compatibility— international standards.
In many applications, a line-scan camera has to be operated at a constant cycling rate in order to maintain a constant sensitivity. Grablink Express implements ADR —Advanced Downweb Resampling—, a unique feature, yielding a defined aspect ratio irrespective of web speed variations, even without an electronic shutter on the camera.
A built-in rate converter accommodates an off-the-shelf motion encoder to control the line acquisition process, enabling any programmable aspect ratio, including perfect square pixels. ADR makes the most of the line-scan camera, as the sensitivity is not impaired by the shuttering.
In addition to the camera interface, Grablink Express exposes multiple general purpose I/O lines to ease the board integration in industrial systems. Available in parallel on a standard HD-26 bracket connector and on the internal header, there are 2 isolated I/O with their associated power supply, 2 differential inputs with high common-mode tolerance, 1 opto-isolated output and 4 logical I/O.
Euresys provides MultiCam interface to operate Grablink Express on various Windows and Linux operating systems. Through this interface, Grablink Express acquires images easily and efficiently for your application.
Grablink Express