Coaxlink Quad G3

 PCI Express card

Format

 Standard profile, half length, 4-lane PCI Express card

Connectors

• 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' on bracket:

• 4x DIN 1.0/2.3 female connectors

• CoaXpress host interface

• EXTERNAL I/O' on bracket:

• 26-pin 3-row high-density female sub-D connector

• I/O lines and power output

• INTERNAL I/O 1' and 'INTERNAL I/O 2' on PCB:

• 2x 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding

• I/O lines and power output

• 'AUXILIARY POWER INPUT' on module:

• 6-pin PEG power socket

• 12 VDC power input for PoCXP camera(s) and I/O power

• 'C2C-LINK' on module:

• 6-pin 2-row 0.1-in header

• Card to card link

Lamp indicators

• 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' on bracket:

• 4x bi-color red/green LEDs

• CoaXPress Host connector indicator lamps

• 'FPGA STATUS LAMP' on PCB:

• Bi-color red/green LED

• FPGA status lamp

• 'BOARD STATUS LAMP' on PCB:

• Bi-color red/green LED

Switches

• 3-pin 1-row 0.1" header

• Firmware emergency recovery

 L 167.65 mm x H 111.15 mm L 6.6 in x H 4.38 in

• 4 lanes

• 1 lane or 2 lanes with reduced performance

• 8.0 GT/s (PCIe 3.0)

• 5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0)  with reduced performance

Number of cameras

• One 1- or 2- or 4-connection area-scan camera

• Two 1- or 2-connection area-scan cameras

• Four 1-connection area-scan cameras

• One 1- or 2- or 4-connection line-scan camera

• Two 1- or 2-connection line-scan cameras

• Four 1-connection line-scan cameras

PoCXP (Power over CoaXPress)

• PoCXP Safe Power:

• 17 W of 24V DC regulated power per CoaXPress connector

• PoCXP Device detection and automatic power-on

• Overload and short-circuit protections

• On-board 12V to 24V  DC/DC converter

• A +12V power source must be connected to the AUXILIARY POWER INPUT connector using a 6-pin PEG cable

Camera types

• Area-scan cameras:

• Gray-scale and color (RGB and Bayer CFA)

• Single-tap (1X-1Y) progressive-scan

• Line-scan cameras:

• Gray-scale and color RGB

Camera pixel formats supported

• Raw

• Mono8, Mono10, Mono12, Mono14, Mono16

• BayerXX8, BayerXX10, BayerXX12, BayerXX14, BayerXX16 where XX = GR, RG, GB, or BG

• RGB8, RGB10, RGB12, RGB14, RGB16

• RGBA8, RGBA10, RGBA12, RGBA14, RGBA16

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.

• Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.

• Support of early and late strobe pulses.

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

Image data stream processing

• Unpacking of 10-/12-/14-bit to 16-bit with selectable justification to LSb or MSb

• Optional swap of R and B components

• Little endian conversion

Data stream statistics

• Measurement of:

• Frame rate (Area-scan only)

• Line rate

• Data rate

• Configurable averaging interval

Event signaling and counting

• The application software can be notified of the occurrence of various events:

• Standard event: the EVENT_NEW_BUFFER event notifies the application of newly filled buffers

• A large set of custom events

• Custom events sources:

• I/O Toolbox events

• Camera and Illumination control events

• CoaXPress data stream events

• CoaXPress host interface events

• Each custom event is associated with a 32-bit counter that counts the number of occurrences

• The last three 32-bit context data words of the event context data can be configured with event-specific context data:

• Event-specific data

• State of all System I/O lines sampled at the event occurrence time

• Value of any event counter

Input LUT (Lookup Table)

• 8 to 8 bits

• 10 to 8, 10 or 16 bits

• 12 to 8, 12 or 16 bits

Number of lines

• 4 differential inputs (DIN)

• 4 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs (TTLIO)

• 8 isolated inputs (IIN)

• 4 isolated outputs (IOUT)

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

• The LIN and QDC tools outputs can be further processed by the other tools (DIV, MDV, DEL) of the I/O toolbox to generate any of the following "trigger" events:

• The "cycle trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller

• The "cycle sequence trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller

• The "start-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)

• The "end-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)

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: Isolated current-sense inputs with wide voltage input range up to 30V, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers, RS-422 differential line drivers, potential free contacts, solid-state relays and opto-couplers

• IOUT: Isolated contact outputs compatible with 30V / 100mA loads

Filter control

• Glitch removal filter available on all System I/O input lines

• Configurable filter time constants:

• for DIN and TTLIO lines: 50 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns,1 µs

• for IIN lines: 500 ns, 1 µs, 2 µs, 5 µs, 10 µs

I/O Toolbox tools

• 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:

• A quadrature edge detector delivering events on selected transitions of selected pairs of input lines.

• An optional backward motion compensator for clean line-scan image acquisition when the motion is unstable.

• A 32-bit up/down counter for delivering a position value.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

I/O Toolbox composition

• 1-camera: 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 DEL, 1 UAS

• 2-camera: 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 DEL, 1 UAS

• 4-camera: 8 LIN, 1 UAS

• 1-line-scan: 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 DEL, 1 UAS

• 2-line-scan: 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 DEL, 1 UAS

• 1-slm-camera: 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 DEL, 1 UAS

• 1-sls-camera: 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 DEL, 1 UAS

Description

• Allows to accurately synchronize the trigger and start-of-exposure of multiple grabber-controlled area-scan and line-scan cameras.

• C2C-Link is able to synchronize cameras connected

• to the same Coaxlink card

• 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)

• 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)

Specification

• Maximum distance

• 60 cm inside a PC

• 1200 m cumulated adapter to adapter cable length

• Maximum trigger rate

• 2.5 MHz for configurations using a single PC, or up to 10 PCs and 100 m total C2C-Link cable length

• 200 kHz for configurations up to 32 PCs and 1200m total C2C-Link cable length

• Trigger propagation delay from master to slave devices

• Less than 10 ns for cameras on the same Coaxlink card or on different Coaxlink cards in the same PC

• Less than 265 ns for cameras on different Coaxlink cards in different PCs (3 PCs and 40m total C2C-Link cable length)

Host PC Operating System

• Microsoft Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 for x86 (32-bit) and x86-64 (64-bit) processor architectures

• Linux kernel versions 3.10 to 4.13, compatible with a wide range of distributions, tested with CentOS 7, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubunto 17.04, for x86 (32-bit) and x86-64 (64-bit) processor architectures

• Linux kernel version 3.10.96-tegra, tested with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, for aarch64 (64-bit) processor architecture

APIs

• .NET assembly designed to be used with development environments compatible with .NET frameworks version 2.0 or higher

• x86 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86 applications

• x86_64 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86_64 applications

• aarch64 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of aarch64 applications

• European Council EMC Directive 2004/108/EC

• United States FCC rule 47 CFR 15

• EN 55022:2010 Class B

• FCC 47 Part 15 Class B

EMC - Immunity

• EN 55024:2010 Class B

• EN 61000-4-3

• EN 61000-4-4

• EN 61000-4-6