Cheetah Pregius Camera with GigE Vision
®
Interface – User Manual
August 27, 2019
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3 GenICam
TM
API Module –
Configuring the Camera
3.1 Overview
Imperx Cheetah cameras are highly programmable and flexible. They allow control of all the
camera’s resources. You communicate with the GEV camera from a simple GenICam
TM
compliant GigE graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI is bi-directional allowing you to issue
commands to the camera and allowing the camera to issues responses (either status or
information). You can configure and monitor all of the camera’s features and resources.
The Cheetah camera ships with the Imperx Camera SDK software which includes the SDK and
IpxPlayer application to control the camera and view/save images. Chapter
provides information on Camera SDK software installing, IpxPlayer interface and parameter
windows.
3.2 Camera User Set Description
Startup Procedure
Upon powering up or receiving a ‘DeviceReset’ command, the camera performs the
following steps:
1.
Boot loader checks program flash memory for a valid firmware image and
loads it into the field-programmable gate array (FPGA).
2.
The camera reads the “Boot From” register from the parameter Flash and
loads a workspace from one of the configuration spaces determined by the
User Set Default Selector. The configuration spaces are: Factory Space
(Default), User Space #1, #2, #3 or #4.
3.
The camera runs the IP configuration according the GigE Vision standard,
obtains the IP address, and is ready for device enumeration by host
application.
3.3 GenApi Camera Configuration
The camera XML nodes are listed below with a description of the camera configuration
parameters, the interface type, the range of control values, and the access mode for the
parameter (RW: Read/Write, RO: Read Only, WO: Write Only).
While most configuration parameters are supported in all cameras, availability of some
parameters may vary between different camera models. Those parameters are presented in
