VisionLink F-series
Overview
EDT, Inc.
2019 April 29
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VisionLink F-series
Overview
This guide covers EDT VisionLink F-series frame grabbers, which provide fast, high-resolution image capture and DMA
between an external Camera Link camera and a host computer.
These frame grabbers are designed for PCIe Gen2 but can work with other PCIe generations; however, performance
is limited by the generation of the board or slot, whichever is lower.
Companion products include remote camera extenders (RCX) over fiber; for details, see
Available configurations for the F-series are shown in
Table 1. VisionLink F-series frame grabbers for Camera Link
Product
Bus spec
Camera Link Part
Product
name
x lanes
modes
number
description
VisionLink F1
PCIe x1
Base
019-14853
Half-height backpanel, 1 SDR
019-14854
Half-height backpanel, 2 SDRs, 128 MB DDR3, IRIG-B
019-14836
Full-height backpanel, 1 SDR
019-14852
Full-height backpanel, 2 SDRs, 128 MB DDR3, IRIG-B, Lemo
VisionLink F4
PCIe x4
Base
–
TBD
Half-height backpanel
full
019-14856
Full-height backpanel
019-14857
Full-height backpanel, Lemo
Included Files
For the above products, your EDT installation package includes README files for quick start information and special
cases (
README.*
), as well as device drivers for supported operating systems and source code and binaries for...
•
GUI capture and display applications (
vlviewer, pdvshow
)
•
Standalone initialization applications (
initcam, camconfig
)
•
Command-line capture and display applications (
take, simple_take, simplest_take, simple_*
)
•
Command-line serial communication tool (
serial_cmd
)
•
Diagnostic tools (
pciload, pciediag, dvinfo, pdb
)
•
API libraries (
libpdv, libedt,
and associated source files)
•
Makefiles for Windows and Linux (
makefile
)
•
Visual Studio project and solution files (
*/*.vcproj, */*.sln
)
•
Camera configuration files (
camera_config/*.cfg
)
•
Board firmware files (
flash/*
directories)
•
Windows silent install / uninstall example batch files (
wdf/install/*.bat
)
