Cameras may be the eyes of machine-vision and inspection systems, but interfaces and processors constitute the nervous systems and brains. Several products offer the capability to transport vision information or make decisions based on what cameras detect. The products have been introduced over the past few months or highlighted at The Vision Show in April in Boston. For example, in March EPIX unveiled its PIXCI EB 1 mini 50.95-mm x 30.00-mm Camera Link frame grabber in a PCI Express Mini Card form factor. It captures images from a base-configuration line-scan or area-scan Camera Link camera, supports 250-Gb/s burst transfers of image data to a PCIe bus, and offers sustained image capture at rates of 200 MB/s. It provides trigger input, strobe output, shutter control, and 64-bit memory addressing and comes with XCAP-Lite software, which handles image-capture and camera control.
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