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Appendix C.
CameraLink Data Cables
C.1
Choosing the Cable
You may check the compliance of your CameraLink cables with the transportation of the 85MHz data rate.
The main parameter to be checked in the cable specification is the skew (in picoseconds)
This parameter is given for a dedicated maximum value per meter of cable (as max : 50ps/m)
The CameraLink Standards defines the maximum total skew possible for each data rate :
Here is a following example of cable and the cable length limitation in accordance with the standard :
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Skew (ps)
Data rate (MHz)
DataRate
Skew
Cable Length
40Mhz
390ps
7,8m
66MHz
290ps
5,8m
70MHz
270ps
5,4m
80MHz
218ps
4,36m
85MHz
190ps
3,8m
