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Summary of Contents for Monochrome Image Acquisition Device NI 1410

Page 1: ...NI Vision NI PCI 1410 User Manual High Quality Monochrome Image Acquisition Device NI PCI 1410 User Manual February 2007 373793C 01 ...

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Page 4: ...nt of Communications DOC Changes or modifications not expressly approved by NI 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 Class A digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against ha...

Page 5: ...nt information 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 denotes parameter names italic Italic text denotes variables emphasis a cross reference or an introduction to a key concept Italic text also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word or value that you must supply monospace Text in this font denotes ...

Page 6: ...2 1 Video Multiplexer 2 2 Programmable Gain and Offset 2 2 Analog Bandwidth Control Circuitry 2 2 10 Bit ADC 2 2 Digital Filter and LUT 2 3 Onboard Memory 2 3 Scatter Gather DMA Controllers 2 3 PCI Interface 2 3 Genlock Circuit and SYNC Mux 2 3 Acquisition and Region of Interest Control 2 4 RTSI Bus 2 4 Digital Input Output Circuitry 2 4 Acquisition Modes 2 4 Analog Front End Considerations 2 5 10...

Page 7: ...Contents NI PCI 1410 User Manual viii ni com Appendix A Custom Cables Appendix B Technical Support and Professional Services Glossary Index ...

Page 8: ...ge acquisition devices With NI IMAQ you can quickly and easily start the applications without having to program the device at the register level As a stand alone device the NI 1410 supports four general purpose control lines that are configurable to generate precise timing signals for controlling camera acquisition The NI 1410 also supports four video sources and four external I O lines to use as ...

Page 9: ... for analyzing and processing your acquired images Vision Builder for Automated Inspection AI Allows you to configure solutions to common inspection tasks National Instruments Vision Development Module Provides customized control over hardware and algorithms The following sections provide an overview of the driver software and the application software For detailed information about individual soft...

Page 10: ...sition for LabVIEW LabWindows CVI and Measurement Studio which contains libraries for Microsoft Visual Basic NI IMAQ features both high level and low level functions Examples of high level functions include the sequences to acquire images in multi buffer single shot or continuous mode An example of a low level function is configuring an image sequence since it requires advanced understanding of th...

Page 11: ... can program the most basic or complicated image applications without knowledge of particular algorithm implementations As a part of the Vision Development Module NI Vision Assistant is an interactive prototyping tool for machine vision and scientific imaging developers With Vision Assistant you can prototype vision applications quickly and test how various vision image processing functions work V...

Page 12: ...nts DAQ devices This allows integration between image acquisition devices and National Instruments DAQ products Use National Instruments high performance stepper and servo motion control products with pattern matching software in inspection and guidance applications such as locating alignment markers on semiconductor wafers guiding robotic arms inspecting the quality of manufactured parts and loca...

Page 13: ...s well as from non standard cameras such as line scan cameras The NI 1410 digitizes analog video signals to 8 or 10 bits of resolution at sampling frequencies up to 40 MHz The NI 1410 has a factory calibrated gain circuit to improve measurement accuracy and board to board consistency It uses a PCI interface for high speed data transfer 16 MB of SDRAM for data buffering and region of interest contr...

Page 14: ...r 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 10 Bit ADC The 10 bit ADC digitizes the conditioned video signal Digital Input Output Circuitry RTSI Bus 68 pin VHDCI Connector Video 0 PCI Bus Video Mux Programmable Gain and Offset PCI Interface and Scatter Gather DMA Controller Onboard Memory and C...

Page 15: ...fer data between the onboard SDRAM memory buffer and the PCI bus Each of these controllers supports scatter gather DMA which allows the controllers to reconfigure on the fly This functionality enables the NI 1410 to perform continuous image transfers directly to either contiguous or fragmented memory buffers PCI Interface The NI 1410 implements the PCI interface with a National Instruments custom ...

Page 16: ... VSYNC ACQUISTION_IN_PROGRESS and ACQUISITION_DONE to these lines The camera control lines provide a means to generate deterministic signals for triggering cameras strobe lights or other timing critical applications Note The NI 1410 does not support pixel clock output on the trigger lines Acquisition Modes The NI 1410 supports the following four video acquisition modes Standard Mode In standard mo...

Page 17: ... Because the nominal full scale ranges are 0 20 0 35 0 70 and 1 40 V the gain is not continuously variable in this mode To maintain compatibility with existing acquisition code and processing algorithms used with other analog image acquisition devices the NI 1410 has an 8 bit mode that converts the 10 bit data from the ADC to 8 bit data in the LUT after gain correction and any digital filtering ha...

Page 18: ...tomation Explorer MAX and navigate to the Advanced tab of the camera file property page Use the following guidelines to adjust the Clamp Start and Clamp Stop values until the image is corrected Minimum Clamp Start is 100 Maximum Clamp Stop is 120 Difference between Clamp Start and Clamp Stop is at least 10 ...

Page 19: ...configured in RSE mode uses one input which connects to the positive terminal The negative input is internally tied to ground BNC Connector The BNC external connector supplies an immediate connection RSE mode only to the NI 1410 VIDEO0 input To connect a camera to VIDEO0 first verify that the W1 jumper is in place Next use the 2 m BNC cable shipped with the NI 1410 or another 75 Ω BNC cable to con...

Page 20: ...deo signals VIDEO0 VIDEO1 VIDEO2 and VIDEO3 the external digital I O lines triggers and external signals To access these connections you can build your own custom cable or use one of the optional National Instruments cables Note If you are using the VIDEO0 connection on the 68 pin VHDCI connector you must unplug the BNC cable 1 68 Pin VHDCI Connector 3 W1 Jumper 2 BNC Connector 4 RTSI Bus Connecto...

Page 21: ... 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 VIDEO 0 VIDEO 0 VIDEO 1 VIDEO 1 RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED DGND RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED HSYNCIN VSYNCIN CSYNCIN CSYNCOUT CTRL 0 CTRL 1 CTRL 2 CTRL 3 DGND DGND DGND DGND CHASSISGND PCLKIN DGND VIDEO 2 VIDEO 2 VIDEO 3 VIDEO 3 RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED DGND RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RE...

Page 22: ...lse produced at the beginning of each video scan line that keeps the video monitor horizontal scan rate in step with the transmission of each new line You can set HSYNCIN for either TTL or RS 422 mode and program its polarity through software In RS 422 mode both HSYNCIN and HSYNCIN receive the HSYNC signal VSYNCIN Use VSYNCIN when the NI 1410 is in external lock mode or external HSYNC VSYNC HLOCK ...

Page 23: ...I O line or to contain specific pulse widths or internal status signals by using the onboard events CTRL 3 0 Use the control lines on the NI 1410 to control camera features and timing information such as generating integration or shutter pulses You can generate either static or dynamic signals and either TTL or differential signals on these lines DGND DGND is a direct connection to digital GND on ...

Page 24: ...ger sources or synchronization sources Use the following guidelines when developing your own cables For the video inputs use a 75 Ω shielded coaxial cable For the digital triggers and synchronization signals use twisted pairs for each signal For information about connector pin assignments refer to the Digital I O Connector section of Chapter 3 Signal Connections Connector Specifications Video and ...

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Page 27: ...specific customer needs aspect ratio The ratio of a picture or image s width to its height B buffer Temporary storage for acquired data bus A group of conductors that interconnect individual circuitry in a computer such as the PCI bus typically the expansion vehicle to which I O or other devices are connected C CCIR Comite Consultatif International des Radiocommunications A committee that develope...

Page 28: ...on or DAQ device E external trigger A voltage pulse from an external source that triggers an event such as A D conversion F field For an interlaced video signal a field is half the number of horizontal lines needed to represent a frame of video The first field of a frame contains all the odd numbered lines the second field contains all of the even numbered lines frame A complete image In interlace...

Page 29: ... a virtual instrument VI in LabVIEW interlaced A video frame composed of two interleaved fields The number of lines in a field are half the number of lines in an interlaced frame interrupt A computer signal indicating that the CPU should suspend its current task to service a designated activity interrupt level The relative priority at which a device can interrupt L LSB Least significant bit LUT Lo...

Page 30: ...ical size of the region covered by the pixel An acquired pixel should optimally be square thus the optimal value is 1 0 but typically it falls between 0 95 and 1 05 depending on camera quality pixel clock Divides the incoming horizontal video line into pixels R resolution 1 The number of rows and columns of pixels An image composed of m rows and n columns has a resolution of m n This image has n p...

Page 31: ...y is being accessed the next one is being prepared for access sync Tells the display where to put a video picture The horizontal sync indicates the picture s left to right placement and the vertical sync indicates top to bottom placement T trigger Any event that causes or starts some form of data capture TTL Transistor transistor logic V value The grayscale intensity of a color pixel computed as t...

Page 32: ...tion parts locator diagram 1 2 3 2 conventions used in the manual v CSYNC CSYNC mux 2 3 external acquisition mode 2 4 genlock and synchronization circuitry 2 3 CSYNCIN signal table 3 4 CSYNCOUT signal table 3 4 CTRL 3 0 signal table 3 5 custom cable specifications A 1 D Declaration of Conformity NI resources B 1 DGND signal table 3 5 diagnostic tools NI resources B 1 DMA controllers 2 3 documentat...

Page 33: ...ure 3 3 signal descriptions table 3 4 K KnowledgeBase B 1 L LabVIEW Vision Builder AI 1 4 lock mode external 2 4 lookup table 10 bit LUT 2 3 M motion control integrating with 1 5 N National Instruments support and services B 1 NI support and services B 1 NI IMAQ driver software 1 3 P parts locator diagram 1 2 3 2 PCI interface 2 3 PCI 1410 device features and overview 1 1 software programming choi...

Page 34: ...ndard acquisition mode 2 4 support technical B 1 SYNC mux 2 3 synchronization circuitry 2 3 T technical support B 1 training and certification NI resources B 1 TRIG 3 0 signal table 3 5 troubleshooting NI resources B 1 V vertical synchronization See VSYNC VHDCI connector See I O connector video mux 2 2 VIDEO 3 1 signal table 3 4 VIDEO0 signal avoiding 68 pin VHDCI connector with BNC connection not...

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