dPict Imaging Nexeon CL Low-cost Camera Link® acquisition board

The Industrial Camera and Machine Vision Solutions Company

Nexeon CL
Low-cost Camera Link® acquisition board for area or line-scan cameras.
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Nexeon CL is a low-cost, full-featured video capture board for digital camera solutions with the Camera Link standard. Nexeon CL supports the Base confi guration of the Camera Link standard and works with all area and line scan Camera Link® cameras up to 80 MHz. Nexeon
CL comes equipped with an on-board DSP and plenty of memory for fast and reliable video data transfer to system or display memory.

Features

PCI or PCI Express interface
Bus-mastering video acquisition
Simultaneous real-time transfer of video to system memory, overlay, or display memory
TI DM642 Digital Media Processor
32 MB SDRAM Frame Buffer
Supports Camera Link® standard at Base
confi guration
Supports area-scan or line-scan cameras
Acquisition rates up to 80 MHz
Supports 8/10/12/14/16/24 bit cameras
Supports Bayer Mode cameras
Smooth interpolated video scaling to arbitrarily
sized windows
RGB, YUV, or monochrome pixel formats
General purpose I/O triggers
Programmable LUT
Packed or planar transfers
Area of interest transfers to system and onboard
memory
On-board microcontroller for robust timing
and capture control
RS-232 serial input and output
Camera integration support
12-volt DC switched output for camera supply
Real-time image processing
Windows® 2000, and XP drivers
Windows®-based video capture application
DirectShow and TWAIN support
Optional SDK with sample applications

Form Factor	• PCI or PCI Express form factor • Scatter gather DMA support • PCI 2.2 compliant, 5V and 3.3V universal slot • PCI Express x1 connector
Camera Inputs	• Camera Link® digital camera input • RGB or monochrome support • Area scan or line scan camera support • Bayer camera support
Video Acquisition	• Supports base Camera Link® specification • 8/10/12/14/16/24-bit camera support • Up to 80 MHz acquisition rates • Software digital control of gain and offset • EEPROM for storing confi guration and calibration settings
Video Formatting	• Smooth interpolated scaling to randomly-sized windows • Bus-mastering video transfers to system memory, overlay, or display memory simultaneously • 64 MB SDRAM frame buffer • RGB 32/24/16/15/8 and YUV 4:2:2 pixel formats • Area of interest transfers to on-board and system memory • Extensive interrupt control for robust capture • On-board image processing
Camera Control	• On-board microprocessor for reliable capture and control • RS-232 serial output and input • Camera exposure control • Switched and fused camera power
I/O Triggers	• 4 LVDS differential pairs • 8 general-purpose I/O triggers • Programmable between input and output triggers
Physical and Environmental	• 5.00" (length) x 4.20" (height) • Operating temperature: 0° C to 55° C • Relative humidity: 5% up to 95% non-condensing • FCC and CE approved
Available Software Developers Kit	• Compatible with dVeloper Foundation SDK • Windows® 2000 and XP DLLs • DirectDraw and DirectShow support • TWAIN support • Extensive documentation and sample code • dPiction Windows®-based capture application • Sample applications with source code