Cheetah C3880, User Manual

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CHEETAH Hardware User’s Manual
Imperx, Inc. Rev 1.7
6421 Congress Ave. 8/26/2016
Boca Raton, FL 33487
+1 (561) 989-0006
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2.3.2 Horizontal and Vertical Window 36
2.3.3 Factors Impacting Frame Rate 37
2.4 SUBSAMPLING 39
2.4.1 Pixel Averaging 39
2.4.2 Sub-sampling Decimation 40
2.5 CAMERA TRIGGERING 41
2.5.1 Triggering Inputs 41
2.5.2 Acquisition and Exposure Control 41
2.5.3 Triggering modes 42
2.6 STROBES 43
2.7 VIDEO AMPLIFIER GAIN AND OFFSET 43
2.7.1 Analog Gain 43
2.7.2 Digital Gain 44
2.7.3 Digital Offset 44
2.7.4 Black Level Auto-calibration and Black Level Offset 44
2.8 DATA OUTPUT FORMAT 44
2.8.1 Bit Depth 44
2.8.2 Output Taps 45
2.9 PULSE GENERATOR 45
2.10 I/O CONTROL 46
2.10.1 Input / Output Mapping 46
2.10.2 Electrical Connectivity 46
2.11 TEST IMAGE PATTERNS 48
2.11.1Test Image patterns 48
2.12 WHITE BALANCE AND COLOR CONVERSION 49
2.12.1 White Balance Correction 49
2.13 TRANSFER FUNCTION CORRECTION – USER LUT 49
2.13.1 Standard Gamma Correction 50
2.13.2 User Defined LUT 51
2.14 DEFECTIVE PIXEL CORRECTION 52
2.14.1 Static Pixel Correction 52
2.14.2 Dynamic Pixel Correction 53
2.15 FLAT FIELD AND FPN CORRECTION 53