The PL-B954HF-BL is a high speed version of the PL-B954F-BL designed for industrial imaging and machine vision applications. This camera is based on the Sony ICX267 progressive scan sensor with a 1/2” optical format. Fully IIDC 1.31 compliant, the PL-B954HF-BL uses a standard FireWire (1394A) interface for plug-and-play operation with the host computer. Four General-Purpose Inputs/Outputs provide users the flexibility to synchronize the camera with their processes and illumination. This camera is well suited to machine vision applications which require excellent image quality such as automated inspection, PCB and semiconductor inspection, container inspection, food, beverage and pharmaceutical inspection, and manufacturing quality control. The sensor board and C-mount adaptor are connected to the main processing board/interface board stack via a 4” ribbon cable. Longer cable lengths are available for volume orders.

PixeLINK's PL-B954HF-BL is an Imaging Module designed for OEMs that require flexible mounting options. The camera features a 1.45 megapixel CCD sensor (1392 x 1040) at 15 fps. Factory calibrated Digital Pixel Correction and on-board Flat Field Correction (FFC) provides excellent image quality. Careful attention to the color balancing ensures accurate and vivid color reproduction. This camera incorporates the Sony ICX267 progressive scan CCD sensor, which has a 1/2" optical format and a 4.65 um pixel pitch. The ILT CCD features high-speed electronic shuttering, low image lag and low smear making the cameras ideally suited to capturing crisp images of fast moving objects. High sensitivity, low dark current and excellent antiblooming further enhance image quality.

The camera has a user-selectable 8 or 12-bit output. Access to 4 GPIOs is provided via an 8-pin (Molex) board level connector. The Imaging Modules also support I2C serial interface communication via a second 8-pin Molex connector. Power is supplied via a 3-pin Molex connector.

With the PixeLINK Software Developer's Kit (SDK), PixeLINK supplies an extensive Application Programming Interface (API) and camera control Graphical User Interface (GUI) for fast and easy application development. This functionality includes several triggering and GPIO modes for quick and easy integration with strobed illumination and motion controllers. The SDK also includes wrappers for National Instruments LabVIEW versions 7.1, 8.0 and 8.2 and sample source code. The SDK is compatible with Visual Basic, Visual C and Visual C++.

Included is an on-board user-programmable lookup table (LUT) applied in real time, on-board non-volatile memory for camera configuration. Some of the other user controllable camera settings are: gain, offset, frame rate, auto exposure, gamma, color balance and saturation. All of these features, plus many more, are available in PixeLINK’s free demonstration GUI.