Falcon4 86M Cameras
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Supported Industry Standards
GenICam™
The camera is GenICam compliant and implements a superset of the GenICam Standard Features
Naming Convention specification V1.5.
This description takes the form of an XML device description file using the syntax defined by the
GenApi module of the GenICam specification. The camera uses the GenICam Generic Control
Protocol (GenCP V1.0) to communicate over the Camera Link HS command lane.
For more information see www.genicam.org.
Camera Link HS
The camera is Camera Link HS version 1.0 compliant. Camera Link HS is the next generation of
high performance communications standards and is used where a digital industrial camera
interfaces with single or multiple frame grabbers with data rates exceeding those supported by
Camera Link. The camera includes a Camera Link HS connector capable of supporting data rates up
to 2.1 Gbytes / sec per second.
RXC
TXC
TX1
TX2
TX3
TX4
TX5
TX6
TXC
RXC
RX1
RX2
RX3
RX4
RX5
RX6
Data Lane 6
Data Lane 0
Command
Channel
Video
Channel
Link
Camera
(C2,7M1)
Frame Grabber
(C2,7M1)
Figure 3. Single CLHS Connector Configuration
The command channel is used by the frame grabber to send command, configuration, and
programming data to the camera and to receive command responses, status, and image data from
the camera.
The designation C2, 7M1 defines the use of a SFF-8470 connector (C2) and up to 7 lanes of data
with 1 command channel using M-Protocol (8b/10b) at the default speed of 3.125 Gb/sec.
Camera Link HS ROI Characteristics
The single ROI is customer entered and transmitted across all seven data lanes. There is a
minimum of 96 pixels per data lane used.
