Pco pixelfly qe, Operating Instructions Manual

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1. Installation and Powering Up
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PCO 2006
pixelfly
1. Installation and Powering Up
The pixelfly imaging system consists of camera and PCI-Board.
To get the system working properly, follow the instructions.
1.1 Computer
System Requirements The PCI-Board should be installed in a computer with following
characteristics:
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PCI-Bus with PCI-Chip Version 2.1 or higher
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Intel Processor, Pentium or AMD
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128 MB RAM
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Possible Operating Systems
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Microsoft Windows 95 Version 4.00.950b or higher
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Microsoft Windows 98 or 98SE
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Windows ME
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Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Workstation
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Microsoft XP
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Linux Kernel 2.2, preferable SuSE 6.3 or newer
In case of working with Linux, please contact PCO.
Graphic Board For best display of images on the monitor we recommend the
use of highest performance boards with at least 4MB RAM,
preferable with AGP Bus architecture.
Graphic Setup The camera generates 12 Bit (4096 grey levels). For display on
the PC Monitor 8 Bit (256 grey levels) respectively 3x8 Bit in
true color (16,7 millions colors) are generated.
In general, several graphic setups are possible. We recom-
mend the setting with 24 or 32 Bit with 16.7 million colors.
In the 256-Color-Modus twenty colors are used by Windows for
internal purposes. This modus allows to display a maximum of
236 grey levels. Therefore only 7 bit (128 grey levels) are used
for black/white display.
Some graphic boards use in principle 6 bit for the 256-Color-
Modus, i. e. not more than 64 grey levels can be displayed on
the monitor.