Guppy PRO Technical Manual
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Example 2: More than one Guppy PRO camera at full speed
Due to the fact that one Guppy PRO camera can, depending on its settings,
saturate 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 Guppy PRO
cameras simultaneously (see the following table).
FireWire Plug & play capabilities
FireWire devices implement the ISO/IEC 13213 configuration ROM model for
device configuration and identification, to provide plug & play capability. All
FireWire devices are identified by an IEEE EUI-64 unique identifier (an
extension of the 48-bit Ethernet MAC address format) in addition to well-
known codes indicating the type of device and protocols it supports. For
further details read chapter
Guppy PRO F-125B, F-125C 1.2 megapixels
31 fps
38 MByte/s
Guppy PRO F-146B, F-146C 1.4 megapixels
17 fps
20 MByte/s
Guppy PRO F-201B, F-201C 2.0 megapixels
14 fps
28 MByte/s
Guppy PRO F-503B, F-503C 5.0 megapixels
13 fps
65 MByte/s
Note
All data are calculated using Raw8 / Mono8 color mode. Higher
bit depths or color modes will double or triple bandwidth
requirements.
Number of cameras
PC hardware required
One Guppy PRO camera at full speed 1 × 32-bit PCI bus card (85 MByte/s)
Two or more Guppy PRO cameras at
full speed
PCI Express card and/or
Multiple 64-bit PCI bus cards
Table 5: Required hardware for multiple camera applications
Guppy PRO model
Resolution
Frame rate
Bandwidth
Table 4: Bandwidth of Guppy PRO models (continued)
