The Piranha XL XDR Camera
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The CMOS TDI sensor used in the camera is made up of a 16,384 x 12 line array of 5 µm x 5 µm
pixels.
Each line of pixels is spaced 5 µm apart to accommodate pixel interface circuitry. 16 pixels at each
edge of the array are reserved for special use by the camera, resulting in 16,352 pixels being
available to the user. By default, 16,384 pixels are output by the camera where the 16 pixels at
each edge are set to 1 DN. The Area of Interest feature (See section Using Area of Interest to
Reduce Image Data & Enhance Performance) can be used to eliminate the 32 edge pixels if desired.
The 12 lines are grouped into three sets of four. The responsivity of the camera can be adjusted by
summing 8 or 12 lines to form the output image data (See Adjusting Responsivity). Forward and
reverse imaging does not cause the optical center to change. Exposure control allows inspection
speed to change without changing responsivity from maximum speed down to the stopped
condition.
Supported Industry Standards
GenICam™
The Piranha XL camera is GenICam compliant and implements a superset of the GenICam Standard
Features Naming Convention specification V1.5.
This description takes the form of an XML device description file using the syntax defined by the
GenApi module of the GenICam specification. The camera uses the GenICam Generic Control
Protocol (GenCP V1.0) to communicate over the Camera Link HS command lane.
For more information see www.genicam.org.
Camera Link HS
The Piranha XL camera is Camera Link HS version 1.0 compliant. Camera Link HS is the next
generation of high performance communications standards and is used where a digital industrial
camera interfaces with single or multiple frame grabbers with data rates exceeding those supported
by Camera Link. The Piranha XL camera includes two Camera Link HS compatible connectors, each
capable of supporting data rates up to 2.1 Gbytes / sec per second. Each connector can also
interface with standard ‘CX4 Active Optical Cable’ fiber modules where very long data transmission
is required—up to 300 meters.
