Balluff MATRIX VISION mvBlueNAOS, Technical Manual

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1.17 Glossary 113
1.17 Glossary
ADC
Analog-to-digital converter (A/D converter).
API
Application programming interface (API). The standard API for
MATRIX VISION products is called
mvIMPACT_Acquire (p. 119 ).
BusyBox
Configurable monolithic application including shell and other useful
command line tools - often called the "swiss army knife" for embedded
systems. Even desktop distributions are sometimes relying on BusyBox
due to its robustness. Please see
http://www.busybox.net for
details.
CIFS
Common Internet file system (CIFS) replaced Samba in 2006.
It gets rid of NetBIOS packets an introduced Unix features like
soft/hard links and allows larger files.
CPU
Central processing unit aka processor.
DAC Digital to analog converter (D/A converter).
Defaults Standard system settings.
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). DHCP is a protocol
used by networked devices (clients) to obtain various parameters
necessary for the clients to operate in an Internet Protocol (IP) network.
Digital I/O Digital inputs and outputs.
GDB
GDB, the GNU Project debugger.
GenICam
GenICam stands for GEN eric programming I nterface for CAM eras.
It's a generic way to access and modify device parameters with a
unified interface. A GenICam compliant device either directly provides
a GenICam compliant description file (in internal memory) or the
description file can be obtained from a local (hard disk etc.) or web
location. A GenICam description file is something like a machine
readable device manual. It provides a user readable name and value
range for
parameters (p. 121 ) that are offered by the device for reading
and/or
writing and instructions on what command must be sent to a device when
the user modifies or reads a certain parameter from the device. These
description files are written in XML. An excerpt from such a file can
be seen in the figure below:
Excerpt of a GenICam description file (in XML)
For further information on this topic please have a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenICam .
GenTL
GenTL is the transport layer interface for
cameras, acquiring images from the camera, and moving them to the
user application.
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