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IMAQ PCI-1428
User Manual

High-Quality Camera Link Image
Acquisition Device for PCI

IMAQ PCI-1428 User Manual

January 2002 Edition

Part Number 322862B-01

Summary of Contents for IMAQ PCI-1428

Page 1: ...IMAQ IMAQ PCI 1428 User Manual High Quality Camera Link Image Acquisition Device for PCI IMAQ PCI 1428 User Manual January 2002 Edition Part Number 322862B 01...

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Page 3: ...on operation or maintenance instructions owner s modification of the product owner s abuse misuse or negligent acts and power failure or surges fire flood accident actions of third parties or other ev...

Page 4: ...ents could void the user s authority to operate the equipment under the FCC Rules Class A Federal Communications Commission This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Cla...

Page 5: ...onformity DoC for information pertaining to the CE Mark compliance scheme The Manufacturer includes a DoC for most every hardware product except for those bought for OEMs if also available from an ori...

Page 6: ...utions to take to avoid injury data loss or a system crash bold Bold text denotes items that you must select or click on in the software such as menu items and dialog box options Bold text also denote...

Page 7: ...7 Chapter 2 Installation What You Need to Get Started 2 1 Optional Equipment 2 2 Setting up Your IMAQ System 2 2 Unpacking 2 4 Safety Information 2 4 Installation 2 6 Configuring the PCI 1428 2 7 Chap...

Page 8: ...Window Control 3 6 Serial Interface 3 6 Chapter 4 Signal Connections Connectors 4 1 MDR 26 Pin Connector 4 2 68 Pin VHDCI Connector 4 2 Connector Signal Connection Descriptions 4 3 Appendix A Specific...

Page 9: ...IMAQ driver software you can use to directly control the PCI 1428 and other National Instruments IMAQ hardware products With NI IMAQ you can quickly and easily start your applications without having...

Page 10: ...y a consortium of camera and frame grabber manufacturers Camera Link is a standard for interfacing digital cameras with image acquisition devices Camera Link simplifies connectivity between the image...

Page 11: ...mera file is installed in the NI IMAQ Data directory Many camera files are installed on your computer when you install NI IMAQ and many more are available for download from the National Instruments Ca...

Page 12: ...Hardware Vision Software IMAQ Vision Gauging and Measurement Pattern Matching Blob Analysis Image Analysis Morphology Display and ROI Color Matching and Analysis Filters Application Software Measureme...

Page 13: ...er For maximum flexibility and performance NI IMAQ features both high level and low level functions Examples of high level functions include the functions to acquire images in single shot or continuou...

Page 14: ...ns IMAQ Vision is available for LabVIEW and Measurement Studio which includes support for LabWindows CVI Visual C and Visual Basic IMAQ Vision Builder IMAQ Vision Builder is an interactive prototyping...

Page 15: ...hardware and IMAQ Vision pattern matching software you can quickly and accurately locate objects in instances where objects vary in size orientation focus and even when the part is poorly illuminated...

Page 16: ...ollowing items to set up and use the PCI 1428 PCI 1428 Getting Started with Your IMAQ System IMAQ PCI 1428 User Manual NI IMAQ Release Notes NI IMAQ for Windows 2000 NT Me 9x and documentation Pentium...

Page 17: ...r enhanced triggering timing or input output For more specific information about these products refer to the National Instruments catalog or Web site or call the office nearest you Setting up Your IMA...

Page 18: ...ions in chapters 2 and 3 in the NI IMAQ User Manual that apply to the function groups you will use in your application Look at the self documented example source code on your distribution CD for your...

Page 19: ...r not specified in the documentation Misuse of the device may result in a hazard and may compromise the safety protection built into the device If the device is damaged turn it off and do not use it u...

Page 20: ...ts with a stiff nonmetallic brush The unit must be completely dry and free from contaminants before returning it to service You must insulate signal connections for the maximum voltage for which the d...

Page 21: ...rformance leave as much room as possible between the PCI 1428 and other boards and hardware Note You must install the NI IMAQ driver software before installing the 1428 device For information on how t...

Page 22: ...e up the PCI 1428 with the MDR 26 pin connector near the cut out on the computer s back panel Slowly push down on the top of the PCI 1428 until its card edge connector is resting on the expansion slot...

Page 23: ...w of PCI 1428 hardware functionality and explains the operations of the device s functional units Functional Overview The PCI 1428 features a flexible high speed data path optimized for receiving and...

Page 24: ...configuration includes asynchronous serial transmission as well as four digital camera control lines for controlling exposure time frame rates and other camera control signals These four control line...

Page 25: ...ta streams between the camera and the PCI 1428 Data Transmission A 28 to 4 serializing Channel Link chip drives the data and camera enable signals across the Camera Link cable and the camera s pixel c...

Page 26: ...eeds PCI throughput you can acquire without interruption until the onboard RAM is full Trigger Control and Mapping Circuitry The trigger control and mapping circuitry routes monitors and drives the ex...

Page 27: ...controllers transfer data between the onboard SDRAM memory buffers and the PCI bus Each of these controllers supports scatter gather DMA which allows the DMA controller to reconfigure on the fly The P...

Page 28: ...e regions for selecting a region of interest Using the region of interest circuitry the device acquires only a selected subset of the acquisition window Scaling down The scaling down circuitry also co...

Page 29: ...atically LabVIEW Use the serial interface programmatically through calls to the NI IMAQ driver using the IMAQ Serial Write and IMAQ Serial Read VIs Go to LabVIEW vi lib vision driver imaqll llb to acc...

Page 30: ...gnal Connections This chapter describes the MDR 26 pin connector and the 68 pin VHDCI connector on the PCI 1428 device Connectors Figure 4 1 shows the connectors on the PCI 1428 device Figure 4 1 PCI...

Page 31: ...signal connections Figure 4 2 MDR 26 Pin Connector Assignments 68 Pin VHDCI Connector The 68 pin VHDCI connector connects to external digital I O lines and triggers To access these connections build a...

Page 32: ...from the acquisition device to the camera 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 68 67 66 65 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 4...

Page 33: ...the Medium configuration chip for Camera Link communication between the acquisition device and the camera SerTC Serial transmission to the camera from the image acquisition device SerTFG Serial transm...

Page 34: ...e Enables Camera Link compatible Control signal Camera Link compatible Video data Camera Link compatible Clocks Pixel clock frequency range 20 to 50 MHz Note Camera Link cameras must transmit at a min...

Page 35: ...ance Ideal 133 MB s Sustained 100 MB s Power Requirements Voltage 5 VDC 1 5 ADC 12 VDC 24 mA 12 VDC 20 mA Physical Dimensions 10 7 by 17 5 cm 4 2 by 6 9 in Weight 0 127 kg 0 28 lb Environment Operatin...

Page 36: ...rmation on connector pin assignments see the Connectors section in Chapter 4 Signal Connections Camera Link Cables Use a 3M Camera Link cable or build your own cable not recommended to connect your ca...

Page 37: ...er 187676 02 are available from the National Instruments Web site at ni com catalog Camera Link cables are available in 1 to 10 m lengths from the 3M Web site at 3m com See Figure B 2 for 3M part numb...

Page 38: ...the latest example programs system configurators tutorials technical news as well as a community of developers ready to share their own techniques Customer Education National Instruments provides a n...

Page 39: ...sites from the Worldwide Offices section of ni com Branch office Web sites provide up to date contact information support phone numbers e mail addresses and current events If you have searched the te...

Page 40: ...fic to a video standard or camera resolution active line region The region of lines actively being stored Defined by a line start relative to the vertical synchronization signal and a line count activ...

Page 41: ...to denote the amount of memory required to store one byte of data buffer Temporary storage for acquired data bus A group of conductors that interconnect individual circuitry in a computer such as the...

Page 42: ...s use the current default setting DMA Direct memory access A method by which data can be transferred to and from computer memory from and to a device or memory on the bus while the processor does some...

Page 43: ...devices and or data acquisition and control interfaces IC Integrated circuit IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Inches instrument driver A set of high level software functions...

Page 44: ...able containing values used to transform the gray level values of an image For each gray level value in the image the corresponding new value is obtained from the look up table LVDS Low Voltage Differ...

Page 45: ...Interconnect A high performance expansion bus architecture originally developed by Intel to replace ISA and EISA PCI offers a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 132 Mbytes s pixel Picture element T...

Page 46: ...or information where each pixel in the color image is encoded using 32 bits 8 bits for red 8 bits for green 8 bits for blue and 8 bits for the alpha value unused ribbon cable A flat cable in which the...

Page 47: ...s at which data is moved from source to destination after software initialization and set up operations The maximum rate at which the hardware can operate trigger Any event that causes or starts some...

Page 48: ...ormation B 2 interfacing with image acquisition devices 1 2 to 1 3 Medium configuration 3 3 overview 1 2 CC 4 1 signal table 4 4 CHASSIS GND signal table 4 3 clock signals XCLK 1 0 signal table 4 4 YC...

Page 49: ...information 2 4 to 2 6 setting up the IMAQ system 2 2 to 2 3 software programming choices 1 3 to 1 7 IMAQ Vision Builder 1 6 to 1 7 integration with DAQ 1 7 National Instruments IMAQ Vision 1 6 NI IM...

Page 50: ...ontrolled start conditions 3 5 software programming choices 1 3 to 1 7 IMAQ Vision Builder 1 6 to 1 7 integration with DAQ 1 7 National Instruments IMAQ Vision 1 6 NI IMAQ driver software 1 5 pattern...

Page 51: ...PCI 1428 User Manual I 4 ni com W Web support from National Instruments C 1 Worldwide technical support C 2 X X 3 0 signal table 4 3 XCLK 1 0 signal table 4 4 Y Y 3 0 signal table 4 4 YCLK 1 0 signal...

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