FireWire
STINGRAY Technical Manual
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Example 2: More than one Stingray camera at full speed
Due to the fact that one Stingray camera can, depending on its settings, sat-
urate a 32-bit PCI bus, you are advised to use either a PCI Express card and/
or multiple 64-bit PCI bus cards, if you want to use 2 or more Stingray cam-
eras simultaneously (see the following table).
Stingray F-146 B/C
1.44 megapixel
15 fps
21.61 MByte/s
Stingray F-201 B/C
2
megapixel
14 fps
17.20 MByte/s
Note
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All data are calculated using Raw8 / Mono8 color mode.
Higher bit depths or color modes will double or triple band-
width requirements.
# cameras
PC hardware required
1 Stingray camera at full speed
1 x 32-bit PCI bus card (85 MByte/s)
2 or more Stingray cameras at full
speed
PCI Express card and/or
Multiple 64-bit PCI bus cards
Table 7: Required hardware for multiple camera applications
STINGRAY model
Resolution
Frame rate
Bandwidth
Table 6: Bandwidth of Stingray cameras