CAMERA LINK PROMISES CONNECTIVITY

摘要

In the past, industrial vision and imaging applications used a variety of cable connections to transfer analog data between a camera and a frame grabber. Now, however, a new digital interface standard―Camera Link―is emerging and capturing market share away from analog interfaces. Camera Link technology can transfer higher data rates at less cost over a standard cable. The unique advantage of this new technology is that competitive manufacturers of cameras and frame grabbers mutually banded together to form a consortium with the goal of developing a vision-industry standard that would benefit their customers. The new Camera Link standard is based on Channel Link technology that was designed by National Semiconductor (Santa Clara, CA; www.national.com) for an easy and inexpensive interface for display cards and flat-panel displays to satisfy the needs of the PC mass market.