Pike Technical Manual
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FireWire
Example1: 1394b bandwidth of Pike cameras
Example 2: More than one Pike camera at full speed
Due to the fact that one Pike 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 Pike cameras simultaneously
(see the following table).
Pike model
Resolution
Frame rate
Bandwidth
Pike F-032 B/C
VGA
208 fps
62.5 MByte/s
Pike F-100 B/C
1
megapixel
60 fps
57.6 MByte/s
Pike F-145 B/C
1.4
megapixel
30 fps
41.4 MByte/s
Pike F-210 B/C
2.1
megapixel
31 fps
62.5 MByte/s
Pike F-421 B/C
4
megapixel
15 fps
62.5 MByte/s
Pike F-505 B/C
5
megapixel
13 fps
62.5 MByte/s
Pike F-1100 B/C
10.7 megapixel
2.6 fps (single-tap)
4.9 fps (dual-tap)
26.6 MByte/s
50.0 MByte/s
Pike F-1600 B/C
15.8 megapixel
1.7 fps (single-tap)
3.1 fps (dual-tap)
25.7 MByte/s
46.8 MByte/s
Table 5: Bandwidth of Pike cameras
Note
All data are calculated using Raw8 / Mono8 color mode. Higher
bit depths or color modes will double or triple bandwidth
requirements.
# cameras
PC hardware required
1 Pike camera at full speed
1 x 32-bit PCI bus card (85 MByte/s)
2 or more Pike cameras at full speed
PCI Express card and/or
Multiple 64-bit PCI bus cards
Table 6: Required hardware for multiple camera applications
