Grablink DualBase
Frame grabber for two base-configuration Camera Link cameras
- For two Camera Link Base or Lite configuration cameras
- Directly compatible with hundreds of Camera Link cameras available on the market
- Supports PoCL, Power over Camera Link
- ECCO: Extended Camera Link cable length
- PCIe x4 bus: 850 MB/s sustained delivery bandwidth
- Feature-rich set of 20 digital IO lines
- Memento Event Logging Tool
ECCO: Extended Camera Link Cable Operation
- Use longer, up to 15 meters long, Camera Link cables!
- Download this document for more information
Directly compatible with hundreds of Camera Link cameras available on the market
Check out our camera compatibility page (in the Support menu) to download the relevant CamFiles
General purpose I/O lines
- Compatible with a wide range of sensors and motion encoders.
- High-speed differential inputs: Quadrature motion encoder support up to 5 MHz.
- Isolated current-sense inputs: 5V, 12V, 24V signaling voltages accepted, up to 50 kHz, individual galvanic isolation up to 250VDC and 170VAC RMS.
- Isolated contact outputs.
- High-speed 5V-compliant TTL inputs/ LVTTL outputs.
High-performance DMA (Direct Memory Access)
- Direct transfer into user-allocated memory and hardware boards that expose PCI addresses
- Hardware scatter-gather support
- 64-bit addressing capability
Area-scan triggering capabilities
- A trigger is used to start the acquisition when the part is in position. Hardware triggers come from the Coaxlink’s I/O lines. Software triggers come from the application.
- An optional trigger delay is available to postpone the acquisition for a programmable time.
- A trigger decimation function allows to skip some of the triggers.
- Camera exposure control allows the application to control the exposure time of the camera.
- When the acquisition starts, at the appropriate timing, the Coaxlink board generates a signal to control an illumination device connected to one of its output lines.
Line-scan triggering capabilities
Coaxlink supports continuous web scanning (to inspect infinite, continuously moving surfaces without losing a single line) and discrete object scanning (to acquire the image of objects moving in front of the camera).
- A trigger is used to start the acquisition when the part is in position. Hardware triggers come from the board’s I/O lines. Software triggers come from the application.
- After it is started, the acquisition either:
- Continues indefinitely (for web inspection applications)
- Continues for a programmable number of lines (to acquire the image of objects of a known length)
- Continues until an end trigger is received (to acquire the image of objects of a variable length)
- An optional trigger delay is available to postpone the beginning of the acquisition for a programmable number of lines.
Flexible line-scan camera operation with the rate converter
- The rate converter is a smart, programmable frequency multiplier/divider.
- Used with motion encoders and line-scan cameras, it allows the user to choose the aspect ratio of the pixels in the image.
- It provides a way to calibrate the acquisition chain to easily reach square (1:1 aspect ratio) pixels.
Windows, Linux and macOS drivers available