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IMAQ PXI/PCI-1409 User Manual

High-Quality Monochrome Image Acquisition Devices
for PXI, PCI, and CompactPCI Bus

IMAQ PXI/PCI-1409 User Manual

June 2003 Edition

Part Number 322811B-01

Summary of Contents for IMAQ PXI-1409

Page 1: ...IMAQ TM IMAQ PXI PCI 1409 User Manual High Quality Monochrome Image Acquisition Devices for PXI PCI and CompactPCI Bus IMAQ PXI PCI 1409 User Manual June 2003 Edition Part Number 322811B 01...

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Page 3: ...ation 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 events ou...

Page 4: ...Class A Federal Communications Commission This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designe...

Page 5: ...recautions to take to avoid injury data loss or a system crash bold Bold text denotes items that you must select or click in the software such as menu items and dialog box options Bold text also denot...

Page 6: ...sion and Motion 1 6 Chapter 2 Installation Necessary Items 2 1 Optional Equipment 2 2 Unpacking 2 2 Safety Information 2 3 Installation 2 5 PXI 1409 2 5 PCI 1409 2 6 Chapter 3 Hardware Overview Functi...

Page 7: ...rations 3 5 10 Bit 8 Bit Mode 3 5 Clamping 3 6 Chapter 4 Signal Connections BNC Connector 4 1 Digital I O Connector 4 1 Digital I O Connector Signal Connection Descriptions 4 3 Appendix A Specificatio...

Page 8: ...re you can use to directly control the IMAQ 1409 device and other National Instruments IMAQ devices With NI IMAQ you can quickly and easily start your applications without having to program the device...

Page 9: ...by the PXI Specification Revision 1 0 If you use a PXI compatible plug in device in a standard CompactPCI chassis you cannot use PXI specific functions but you can still use the basic plug in device...

Page 10: ...result if these lines are driven by the sub bus Software Overview Programming the IMAQ 1409 device requires the NI IMAQ driver software for controlling the hardware and one of the following applicatio...

Page 11: ...ction is configuring an image sequence since it requires advanced understanding of the IMAQ device and image acquisition NI IMAQ handles many of the complex issues between the computer and the IMAQ de...

Page 12: ...he Vision Development Module Vision Assistant is an interactive prototyping tool for machine vision and scientific imaging developers With Vision Assistant you can prototype vision applications quickl...

Page 13: ...y and accurately locate objects that vary in size orientation focus and illumination Use National Instruments high performance stepper and servo motion control products with pattern matching software...

Page 14: ...and documentation Getting Started with Your IMAQ System NI IMAQ for Windows 2000 NT XP Me 98 Optional software packages and documentation NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection NI Vision Assistant...

Page 15: ...riggering timing or input output For specific information about these products refer to the National Instruments catalog visit ni com or call the office nearest you Unpacking The IMAQ 1409 device ship...

Page 16: ...for use with hazardous voltages 30 Vrms 42 4 Vpk or 60 Vdc it may require a safety earth ground connection wire Refer to the device specifications for maximum voltage ratings Because of the danger of...

Page 17: ...o the electrical distribution system referred to as MAINS4 voltage This category is for measurements of voltages from specially protected secondary circuits Such voltage measurements include signal le...

Page 18: ...several reserved lines on the CompactPCI J2 connector Before installing a PXI 1409 in a CompactPCI system that uses J2 connector lines for purposes other than PXI refer to the Using PXI with CompactPC...

Page 19: ...d remain off and unplugged until you finish installing the 1409 device 4 Remove the computer cover Make sure there are no lit LEDs on the motherboard If any are lit wait until they go out before conti...

Page 20: ...as well as from non standard cameras such as line scan cameras The IMAQ 1409 device digitizes analog video signals to 8 or 10 bits of resolution at sampling frequencies up to 40 MHz The IMAQ 1409 has...

Page 21: ...Control Circuitry You can select either the full bandwidth of 30 MHz or a reduced bandwidth of 9 MHz The 9 MHz bandwidth setting is available using a 5th order Butterworth lowpass filter Digital Input...

Page 22: ...ccess DMA controllers The DMA controllers transfer data between the onboard SDRAM memory buffer and the PCI bus Each of these controllers supports scatter gather DMA which allows the controllers to re...

Page 23: ...ge You also can map onboard signals such as HSYNC VSYNC ACQUISTION_IN_PROGRESS and ACQUISITION_DONE to these lines The camera control lines provide a means to generate deterministic signals for trigge...

Page 24: ...ode the IMAQ 1409 genlock circuitry uses only the HSYNC signal for locking You can use this mode to acquire from asynchronously reset cameras that output a continuous HSYNC Analog Front End Considerat...

Page 25: ...required by the NTSC standard the clamping pulse may intersect either the color burst or the active video portions of the signal If this occurs an acquired image may appear to have dark and light ban...

Page 26: ...0 first verify that the W1 jumper is intact Next use the 2 m BNC cable shipped with the IMAQ 1409 to connect to the BNC connector Figure 4 1 shows the BNC connector pin assignments Figure 4 1 BNC Conn...

Page 27: ...6 35 VIDEO 0 VIDEO 0 VIDEO 1 VIDEO 1 RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED DGND RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED HSYNC_IN VSYNC_IN CSYNC_IN CSYNC_OUT CTRL...

Page 28: ...Use HSYNCIN when the IMAQ 1409 is in external lock mode HSYNC is a synchronization pulse produced at the beginning of each video scan line that keeps a video monitor s horizontal scan rate in step wi...

Page 29: ...to contain specific pulse widths or internal status signals by using the onboard events CTRL 3 0 Use the control lines on the PCI 1409 to control camera features and timing information such as generat...

Page 30: ...ields s CCIR PAL 50 Hz Interlaced mode 50 fields s VGA 60 Hz 640 480 resolution Variable scan Programmable Video Input Quantity 4 monochrome Input impedance 75 1 VIDEO0 RSE BNC RSE VHDCI VIDEO 3 0 RSE...

Page 31: ...ernally clocked Pixel aspect ratio Programmable 5 of nominal Internal Pixel Clock Frequencies range 11 MHz to 40 MHz Pixel ratio for standard video sources 5 Pixel jitter 2 ns peak PCI Interface PCI i...

Page 32: ...BAR1 64 KB Expansion ROM 4 KB PCI master performance Ideal 133 Mbytes s Sustained 100 Mbytes s Power Requirements Voltage 5 V 1 5 A 12 V 100 mA 12 V 50 mA Physical Dimensions PCI 1409 10 7 by 17 5 cm...

Page 33: ...The PXI PCI 1409 meets the requirements of the following standards for safety and electrical equipment for measurement control and laboratory use EN 61010 1 IEC 61010 1 UL 3111 1 CAN CSA C22 2 No 1010...

Page 34: ...trigger sources or synchronization sources Use the following guidelines when developing your own cables For the video inputs use a 75 shielded coaxial cable For the digital triggers and synchronizatio...

Page 35: ...easurement glossary and so on Assisted Support Options Contact NI engineers and other measurement and automation professionals by visiting ni com support Our online system helps you define your questi...

Page 36: ...you need contact your local office or NI corporate headquarters Phone numbers for our worldwide offices are listed at the front of this manual You also can visit the Worldwide Offices section of ni co...

Page 37: ...ry Symbol Prefix Value p pico 10 12 n nano 10 9 micro 10 6 m milli 10 3 k kilo 103 M mega 106 G giga 109 T tera 1012 Numbers Symbols Percent Positive of or plus Negative of or minus Per 5V 5 V signal...

Page 38: ...ce filter Removes the color information from the video signal API Application programming interface area A rectangular portion of an acquisition window or frame that is controlled and defined by softw...

Page 39: ...he CCIR standards chroma The color information in a video signal chrominance See chroma CMOS Complementary metal oxide semiconductor CompactPCI Refers to the core specification defined by the PCI Indu...

Page 40: ...r In many cases the default input of a control is a certain value often 0 DMA Direct memory access A method by which data can be transferred between computer memory and a device or memory on the bus w...

Page 41: ...In interlaced formats a frame is composed of two fields front porch The area of a video signal between the start of the horizontal blank and the start of the horizontal synchronization signal HSYNC f...

Page 42: ...c of the analog I O circuitry instrument driver A set of high level software functions such as NI IMAQ that control specific plug in computer boards Instrument drivers are available in several forms r...

Page 43: ...xactly to the monochrome picture luminance See luma LUT Lookup table Table containing values used to transform the gray level values of an image For each gray level value in the image the correspondin...

Page 44: ...component one for the blue and one for the green NVRAM Nonvolatile RAM RAM that is not erased when a device loses power or is turned off P PAL Phase Alternation Line One of the European video color s...

Page 45: ...ed of m rows and n columns has a resolution of m n This image has n pixels along its horizontal axis and m pixels along its vertical axis 2 The smallest signal increment that can be detected by a meas...

Page 46: ...igh quality color images generated either by an RGB or composite NTSC or PAL camera using a monochrome video acquisition board sync Tells the display where to put a video picture The horizontal sync i...

Page 47: ...nstrument 2 A LabVIEW software module VI which consists of a front panel user interface and a block diagram program video line A video line consists of a horizontal synchronization signal back porch a...

Page 48: ...l table 4 4 CompactPCI specifications 1 2 composite synchronization See CSYNC configuration parts locator diagram 1 2 contacting National Instruments C 2 conventions used in the manual v CSYNC CSYNC m...

Page 49: ...support C 1 HSYNC genlock and synchronization circuitry 3 3 PCLK HSYNC VSYNC mux 3 3 HSYNCIN signal table 4 3 I installation See also configuration procedure for 2 5 unpacking the PXI PCI 1409 2 2 in...

Page 50: ...amming choices 1 3 National Instruments IMAQ Vision 1 4 NI IMAQ driver software 1 3 unpacking 2 2 PXI 1409 device See also PXI PCI 1409 devices pins used table 1 3 using with CompactPCI 1 2 R region o...

Page 51: ...tion See VSYNC VHDCI connector See I O connector video input specifications A 1 video mux 3 2 VIDEO 3 1 signal table 4 3 VIDEO0 signal avoiding 68 pin VHDCI connector with BNC connection note 4 1 VIDE...

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