User
’s Manual
Line Scan Camera
Model:
RMSL8K76CP/RMSL6K76CP/RMSL4K76CP
NIPPON ELECTRO-SENSORY DEVICES
CORPORATION
Page 1: ...User s Manual Line Scan Camera Model RMSL8K76CP RMSL6K76CP RMSL4K76CP NIPPON ELECTRO SENSORY DEVICES CORPORATION...
Page 2: ...U This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the essential requirements of the EMC Directive 2004 108 EC based on the following specifications applied EU Harmonised Standards EN55032 2015...
Page 3: ...less otherwise specified to do so in this manual When hands are wet avoid handling this product and do not touch any of the connection cable pins or other metallic components Do not operate this produ...
Page 4: ...l an infrared filter into your system configuration Please note that exposure to long wavelength light outside of the sensors visible optical range can affect the image Sensitivity may fluctuate depen...
Page 5: ...product repaired or replaced during the warranty period of the original product is the same as the eapired date of the warranty period on the original product Exclusions from Warranty Coverage We wil...
Page 6: ...ned and manufactured as a general purpose product for general industry In applications expected to be life critical or safety critical the installer or user is requested to install double or triple fa...
Page 7: ...3 Connectors Pin Assignments 23 3 4 Power Supply 24 3 4 1 How to supply from power connector 24 3 4 2 How to supply from the CXP 1 connector PoCXP 25 3 5 LED Indicator Status 25 4 Camera Control 26 4...
Page 8: ...on is invalid 46 4 8 2 External Trigger Timed Exposure Mode 47 4 8 3 External Trigger TriggerWidth Exposure Mode 48 4 9 Setting Offset 49 4 10 Setting Gain 50 4 11 Pixel Correction 52 4 11 1 Pixel bit...
Page 9: ...NED RMSL8K76CP RMSL6K76CP RMSL4K76CP UME 0094 02 9 7 3 1 Warranty card attach a separate 64 7 3 2 When you need to repair 64 Revision History 65...
Page 10: ...P 5 5 000Gbps X1 or X2 is about 40m Set to CXP 3X1 at factory mode Operating power supply can be a single external power supply 12V to 15V or PoCXP 1 2 Application Inspection of Transparent panels and...
Page 11: ...pplicable Work COB BGA and MCM printed circuit boards Performance 1 Maximum board size 100mm 200mm 2 Resolution 10 m 3 Inspection time less than 30 seconds Unit Configuration 1 Camera Line scan camera...
Page 12: ...008 28 672 Spectral Responsivity nm 400 1000 Peak 625 See Figure 1 4 1 Maximum Line Rate kHz s 76 923 13 00 See Table 1 4 3 Saturation Exposure lx s typically 0 071 Minimum Gain Pixel Correction Init...
Page 13: ...V DC12 15 5 Consumption Current mA typically 750 650 550 Size W x H x D mm 80x120x71 2 80x120x85 9 Mass g Camera only 610 600 600 Additional Functions 1 Shading Correction 2 Gain Offset Video Output...
Page 14: ...r status refer to P 24 is different from CoaXPress Ver1 0 2 Jitter and minimum pulse width also depend on the frame grabber board Table 1 4 3 CxpLinkConfiguration and maximum line rate and maximum cab...
Page 15: ...NED RMSL8K76CP RMSL6K76CP RMSL4K76CP UME 0094 02 15 The quantum efficiency is shown below Figure 1 4 1 Quantum efficiency...
Page 16: ...the Camera Use the M4 screw holes 4 on the front 8 on the side to set the camera Or use the 1 4 20UNC screw hole for a tripod 1 place at bottom If using the front panel M4 mounting holes 4 places at f...
Page 17: ...NED RMSL8K76CP RMSL6K76CP RMSL4K76CP UME 0094 02 17 The dimensions of the camera are shown below M72 0 75 screw mount Figure 2 2 1 Dimensions of the RMSL8K76CP...
Page 18: ...NED RMSL8K76CP RMSL6K76CP RMSL4K76CP UME 0094 02 18 Nikon F Mount Figure 2 2 2 Dimensions of the RMSL6K76CP...
Page 19: ...NED RMSL8K76CP RMSL6K76CP RMSL4K76CP UME 0094 02 19 Nikon F Mount Figure 2 2 3 Dimensions of the RMSL4K76CP...
Page 20: ...n setting up your light source LED light sources are relatively inexpensive provide a uniform field and longer life span compared to other light sources However they also require a camera with excelle...
Page 21: ...cturer and the same length There are two types of CoaXPress cable connectors BNC and DIN Please select according to the camera and frame grabber board 2 Connect to the power supply When PoCXP is not u...
Page 22: ...ndard The maximum cable length to be able to transfer data depends on factors such as attenuation diameter and manufacturer Therefore please be sure to use CoaXPress cable certified as standard Refer...
Page 23: ...ments This camera uses 6 pin round shape push pull lock type connector for the Power Supply Acceptable Cable Acceptable plug DGPSH 10 HIROSE HR10G 7P 6S Figure 3 3 1 Power Supply Connector HIROSE HR10...
Page 24: ...the cable plug securely until it locks into position This is to prevent the connector from coming loose during power transmission 3 Take the necessary countermeasures in the electric supply line for...
Page 25: ...status of the indicator varies depending on CoaXPress s Ver This camera is CoaXPress Ver1 1 1 Table 3 5 1 Indicator status LED Indicator Status CoaXPress Ver 1 1 1 New 1 0 Old Camera Power Supply is o...
Page 26: ...register information Camera control is enabled after Discovery Please check your frame grabber s manual for how to perform device discovery 4 1 2 Camera Control registers Various settings features of...
Page 27: ...setting TriggerMode RW Off On Off Off External trigger disabled On External trigger enabled ExposureMode RW Timed TriggerWidth Timed Timed ExposureTime value TriggerWidth External trigger H time Expo...
Page 28: ...eed and Number of cables Category NED additional feautures NED_FFCMode RW Disable Factory white User white User black Factory white User black User white Factory white Factory black Factory black Fact...
Page 29: ...RMSL4K76CP UME 0094 02 29 4 2 Details on register system This explanation uses the Matrox Radient eV CXP as an example 1 Open Intellicam from the Matrox Imaging Library 2 From the Intellicam File Open...
Page 30: ...isplayed then discovery has been performed successfully 4 Open Feature Browser from the Intellicam menu 5 Control the camera from the Features box In the case of the Matrox Radient eV CXP the list of...
Page 31: ...e Control Device temperature 2 Image Format Control Related images 3 Acquisition Control Related Exposure trigger 4 Analog Control Related Gain Offset 5 User Set Control Loading and saving camera sett...
Page 32: ...Register name DeviceTemperatureSelector VAL Mainboard Subboard Example DeviceTemperatureSelector Subboard 4 2 2 2 Camera temperature indication Displays the camera internal temperature selected by De...
Page 33: ...ard check box Reverse Example Reverse check box Reverse 4 2 3 2 Setting PixelFormat Switch between monochrome 8 bit monochrome 10 bit Register name Pixel Format VAL Mono8 Mono10 monochrome 8 bit 10 bi...
Page 34: ...l setting value will be different Ex When set to 15000 Hz the actual set value is 15015Hz When set to 30000 Hz the actual setting value is 30120Hz If the setting value of AcquisitionLineRate is increa...
Page 35: ...t is necessary to supply a trigger packet from the frame grabber board to the camera For details on how to supply the trigger packet refer to the manual of each frame grabber board 4 2 4 4 Setting Exp...
Page 36: ...000 0 200us step Example ExposureTime 1000 000 If increasing the ExposureTime setting the value of AcquisitionLineRate may be changed automatically The values are generally set according to the follow...
Page 37: ...nSelector All 4 2 5 3 Setting Digital Gain Sets digital gain in 512 steps between x1 and x2 Digital Gain 1023 1023 VAL Register name Digital Gain VAL 0 1 511 2 Example Digital Gain 255 Setting digital...
Page 38: ...the digital offset of the camera 63 to 63DN 8 bits 254 to 254DN 10 bits can be set in 512 steps Register name BlackLevel VAL 127 127 1step Example BlackLevel 10 4 2 5 6 Setting Gamma correction Set c...
Page 39: ...s from flash memory Load the setting of the camera selected by UserSetSelector and reflect it on the camera Register name UserSetLoad VAL Execute Example UserSetSelector Default Select factory default...
Page 40: ...egister name CxpLinkConfiguration VAL CXP3_X1 Factory mode CXP5_X1 CXP3_X2 CXP5_X2 RMSL4K76CP cannot be selected Example CxpLinkConfiguration CXP5_X1 When maximum line rate 76 923 KHz is required plea...
Page 41: ...Factory black and user white correction User black and Factory white User black and factory white correction User black and User white User black and user white correction Example NED_FFCMode User whi...
Page 42: ...ta can be saved for each step of analog gain Register name NED_PRNUCalibration VAL Execute Example NED_PRNUCalibration Execute 4 2 8 4 Saving Black Pixel Correction Data Acquires current black pixel c...
Page 43: ...et will be skipped Figure 4 3 1 FPGA Processing Block Diagram 4 4 Startup After turning on the camera run a startup procedure before it starts getting images and outputting data It takes about ten sec...
Page 44: ...a saved in the memory will be deleted As it takes several seconds to rewrite the memory do not disconnect power supply before receiving the answer from the camera Registers for rewriting the memory ar...
Page 45: ...ad out and the camera control registers are displayed in the camera control software in the case of some manufacturers they may not be displayed However if the frame grabber does not support GenICam t...
Page 46: ...f Set the camera camera control register with the AciliationLineRate and the Programmable exposure time ExposureTime respectively Settable line rate and programmable exposure time are as follows Table...
Page 47: ...re time to the programmable exposure time ExposureTime The settable line cycle and programmable exposure time are as follows Table 4 8 2 1 External Trigger Timed Exposure Time a Trigger pulse Htime us...
Page 48: ...e TriggerWidth The line cycle is set by the cycle of the external trigger and the exposure time is set by the high time of the external trigger The settable line cycle and exposure time are as follows...
Page 49: ...the saturation current or the amount of exposure when the output saturates Figure 4 9 1 Saturation Exposure and Dark Current Output By setting the offset you can set the Y intercept arbitrarily DF sh...
Page 50: ...ra s response curve and results in a higher camera output for a given amount of light Analog gain can be changed by sending the gax command Digital gain can be changed by sending the gdx command Figur...
Page 51: ...Gain Sensitivity Analog Amplifier Sensitivity V lx s 0 x1 00 0 0dB 100 1 x2 00 6 0dB 200 2 x3 00 9 5dB 300 3 x4 00 12 0dB 400 4 x5 00 14 0dB 500 5 x6 00 15 6dB 600 6 x8 00 18 1dB 800 7 x10 00 20 0dB 1...
Page 52: ...function of user white correction to cope with lens shading and non uniform illumination Cal_bl Output data of each pixel at perfectly dark digital Cal_wh Output data of each pixel in uniform illumin...
Page 53: ...Nstep Saving White Pixel Correction Data Acquires current white pixel correction data and saves it in the flash memory One set of correction data can be saved for each step of analog gain Register nam...
Page 54: ...een the camera and the frame grabber board The test pattern of the RMSL8K76CP is below Figure 4 12 1 Test Pattern of RMSL8K76CP Figure 4 12 2 Test Image of RMSL8K76CP The test pattern is a ramp from 0...
Page 55: ...gure 4 12 3 Test Pattern of RMSL6K76CP Figure 4 12 4 Test Image of RMSL6K76CP The test pattern is a ramp from 0 to 1023DN 0 to 511 in 10 bit mode and then it repeats itself from 0 again 4 times The te...
Page 56: ...w Figure 4 12 5 Test Pattern of RMSL4K76CP Figure 4 12 6 Test Image of RMSL4K76CP The test pattern is a ramp from 0 to 1023DN in 10 bit mode and then it repeats itself from 0 again 4 times The test pa...
Page 57: ...hes The CMOS sensor window is part of the optical path and should be handled like other optical components with care If you use the camera in a dusty area prepare a dust proof enclosure Dust can obscu...
Page 58: ...specified voltage The capacity of the power source is enough When Camera indicator lights red make sure the CoaXPress cable is properly connected between camera and the frame grabber board Make sure...
Page 59: ...images are too dark try to increase the light intensity and vice versa No image at the full aperture The optical axes of the camera and the image sensor are aligned If you can import it with the samp...
Page 60: ...has been used for 3 or more years or the ambient temperature is higher than room temperature Check the condition of the power supply The camera and or cables are used in a moving environment attached...
Page 61: ...propriate speed and length The power source has no fluctuation in voltage and is not deteriorated Use a stable power supply The camera could be faulty Please contact us for assistance When the camera...
Page 62: ...hotter than the ambient temperature while in operation because of self heating Allow sufficient air circulation around the camera to give it the longer life Keep the ambient temperature within the ran...
Page 63: ...er any errors or omissions please notify your nearest NED representative 7 2 Contact for support Nippon Electro Sensory Devices Corporation Head Office 2 5 12 Itachibori Nishi ku Osaka 550 0012 Japan...
Page 64: ...1 Warranty card attach a separate Read carefully the Warranty card please trasure it 7 3 2 When you need to repair If there is still a problem with your camera after checking it in accordance with th...
Page 65: ...NED RMSL8K76CP RMSL6K76CP RMSL4K76CP UME 0094 02 65 Revision History Revision Number Date Changes 01 May 24 2018 Initial release 02 Feb 06 2020 Figure 2 2 1 Dimensions of the RMSL8K76CP change...