Description and Features

Grablink Full is a cost-effective full-featured frame grabber for single Camera Link camera applications. It supports one Base-, Medium- or Full-configuration (including 80-bit) camera. Grablink Full features on-board processing, such as LUTs and a Bayer CFA decoder, in addition to a rich set of I/O lines compatible with a wide range of sensors and encoders, and a 4-lane PCI Express bus.

This high-end acquisition board targets high-speed and high-resolution area-scan and line-scan applications such as printing, web and flat panel display inspection, 3D inspection and manufacturing inspection for fast production lines.

Camera Link interface
- One Camera Link camera
- Supports all the Camera Link standard configurations: Base, Medium, Full and 80-bit
- The full data rate range is supported: from 20 MHz up to 85 MHz
- 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
- 3 look-up table transformation and Bayer CFA decoder
- High-performance up to 850 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
- 4-lane half-length PCI Express add-on board
- Bracket with:
- 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 Full featuring ECCO