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Linea 2K and 4K Monochrome Line Scan Camera User's Manual 

03-032-20206-00 

 

Teledyne DALSA 

 

Figure 7. CamExpert GUI showing connected camera  

Check LED Status 

If the cam era is op erating correctly at this p oint, the d iagnostic LED w ill shine green . 

Software Interface 

 
All the cam era featu res can be controlled  throu gh the Cam Exp ert interface. For exam p le, u nd er the 
Cam era Control m enu  in the cam era w ind ow  you  can control the line rate and  exp osu re tim es. 
 
 

 

Summary of Contents for Linea 2K CL

Page 1: ...03 032 20206 00 www teledynedalsa com Linea Camera User s Manual 2k and 4k Monochrome CMOS Line Scan sensors cameras frame grabbers processors software vision solutions...

Page 2: ...ebsite at www teledyne com Teledyne DALSA a Teledyne Technologies company is an international leader in high performance digital imaging and semiconductors with approximately 1 000 employees worldwide...

Page 3: ...l and Configure Frame Grabber and Software 13 2 Connect Camera Link and Power Cables 13 3 Establish Communicating with the Camera 13 4 Operate the Camera 13 Step 1 Install and Configure the Frame Grab...

Page 4: ...escriptions 49 Digital I O Control Feature Descriptions 50 Flat Field Category 51 Flat Field Control Feature Description 52 Region of Interest ROI 53 Image Format Control Category 53 Image Format Cont...

Page 5: ...Dust Oil and Scratches 83 Cleaning the Sensor Window 84 Appendix F Camera Frame Grabber Communication _______________________________________________________85 Setting Up Communication between the Cam...

Page 6: ...dry clean absorbent cotton cloth dampened with a small quantity of pure alcohol Do not use methylated alcohol To clean the surface o f the camera housing use a soft dry cloth To remove severe stains...

Page 7: ...ned for applications such as materials grading and inspection transportation safety automated optical inspection and general purpose machine vision Key Features High speed up to 80 kHz 2048 or 4096 pi...

Page 8: ...on file Embedded within camera Sapera LT including CamExpert GUI application and GenICam for Camera Link imaging driver Version 7 30 or later Camera Performance Specifications Table 4 Camera Performan...

Page 9: ...rtifications and Compliance Compliance EN 55011 FCC Part 15 CISPR 11 and ICES 003 Class A Radiated Emissions Requirements EN 55024 and EN 61326 1 Immunity to Disturbance RoHS per EU Directive 2011 65...

Page 10: ...response to different wavelengths of light excluding lens and light source characteristics Figure 1 Spectral Responsivity vs Wavelength Figure 2 QE vs Wavelength 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 400 5...

Page 11: ...Linea 2K and 4K Monochrome Line Scan Camera User s Manual 11 Teledyne DALSA 03 032 20206 00 Mechanicals INSERT PDF HERE Figure 3 Camera Mechanicals...

Page 12: ...ge For users who are familiar with Camera Link cameras have a basic understanding of their imaging requirements and who are primarily interested in evaluating the Linea camera an overview of the steps...

Page 13: ...d within the camera firmware allowing GenICam compliant application to know the camera s capabilities immediately after connection Installing SaperaLT gives you access to the CamExpert GUI a Gen ICam...

Page 14: ...Link compliant interface We recommend you use CamExpert CamExpert is the camera interfacing tool supported by the Sapera library and comes bundled with SaperaLT Using CamExpert is the simplest and qui...

Page 15: ...unity and performance of the camera Figure 4 Input and Output Trigger and Power Connectors WARNING Grounding Instructions Static electricity can damage electronic components It s critical that you dis...

Page 16: ...abber Connector Channel Link Signal Camera Connector Right Angle Frame Grabber Connector Channel Link Signal 1 1 inner shield 1 1 PoCL 14 14 inner shield 14 14 inner shield 2 25 Y0 2 25 X0 15 12 Y0 15...

Page 17: ...x9 D7 2 Tx10 Rx10 D1 6 Tx10 Rx10 D4 6 Tx10 Rx10 D7 6 Tx11 Rx11 D1 7 Tx11 Rx11 D4 7 Tx11 Rx11 D7 7 Tx12 Rx12 D1 3 Tx12 Rx12 D4 3 Tx12 Rx12 D7 3 Tx13 Rx13 D1 4 Tx13 Rx13 D4 4 Tx13 Rx13 D7 4 Tx14 Rx14 D1...

Page 18: ...LSB Bit 7 Pixels 3 7 11 4091 4095 Tap 4 LSB Bit 7 Pixels 4 8 12 4092 4096 xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Mono 12 Tap 1 LSB Bit 7 Pixels 1 5 9 4091 4095 Tap 1 Bits 8 9 10 11 Pixels 1 5 9 4091 4095 Tap 2 Bits 8 9 10...

Page 19: ...R26F connector The camera ships in internal sync and internally programmed integration EXSYNC Line Readout Trigger Line rate can be set internally using the GenICam features The external control signa...

Page 20: ...ies provide optimum performance WARNING When setting up the camera s power supplies follow these guidelines Apply the appropriate voltages Protect the camera with a 2 amp slow blow fuse between the po...

Page 21: ...y have to wait while the camera readies itself for operation The camera must boot fully before it will be recognized by the GUI the LED shines green once the camera is ready Connect to the frame grabb...

Page 22: ...onnected camera Check LED Status If the camera is operating correctly at this point the diagnostic LED will shine green Software Interface All the camera features can be controlled through the CamExpe...

Page 23: ...be used to upgrade the camera s software An important component of CamExpert is its live acquisition display window which allows immediate verification of timing or control parameters without the nee...

Page 24: ...ters applicable to that device Optionally select a camera file included with the Sapera installation or saved by the user Parameters pane Allows viewing or changing all acquisition parameters supporte...

Page 25: ...single trigger command CamExpert display controls these do not modify the frame buffer data Stretch image to fit set image display to original size or zoom the image to virtually any size and ratio Hi...

Page 26: ...re time 50 s 1x horizontal and vertical binning Offset 0 Gain 1x Check Camera and Sensor Information Camera and sensor information can be retrieved via a controlling application for example the CamExp...

Page 27: ...ormation Parameter Choices User Set Default Selector Select the camera parameters to load when the camera is reset or powered up as the Factory set or as User Set 1 to 8 Selecting the set from the lis...

Page 28: ...ets is powered down or loses power To save these settings for reuse the next time you power up or reset the camera or to protect against losing them in the case of power loss you must save the current...

Page 29: ...exposures to external triggers or a programmed function call message by the controlling computer These triggering modes are described below Internal trigger trigger disabled The camera free running mo...

Page 30: ...vailable when Trigger Mode is enabled Trigger Width Uses the width of the current line trigger signal pulse to control the exposure duration Timed The exposure duration time is set using the Exposure...

Page 31: ...rate and external exposure time the line rate must not exceed 1 exposure time 1 s Under these conditions the exposure time will become indeterminate and result in image artefacts This is not the case...

Page 32: ...Linea 2K and 4K Monochrome Line Scan Camera User s Manual 03 032 20206 00 Teledyne DALSA GenICam parameters to set I O Controls Trigger Mode On Camera Control Exposure Mode Timed Figure 12 Exposure Mo...

Page 33: ...on If the external line rate exceeds the maximum line rate allowed for a mode the camera will continue to output data at its maximum line rate Though no image artefacts associated with over speed will...

Page 34: ...Formula Hz 77MHz 1 Base 8 or 12 bit Max Line Rate 80KHz Medium 8 or 12 bit Max Line Rate 80KHz Full 8 bit Max Line Rate 80KHz 2 Base 8 or 12 bit Max Line Rate 80KHz Medium 8 or 12 bit Max Line Rate 8...

Page 35: ...te 80KHz Full 8 bit Max Line Rate 80KHz 50MHz 1 Base 8 or 12 bit Max Line Rate 80KHz Medium 8 or 12 bit Max Line Rate 80KHz Full 8 bit Max Line Rate 80KHz 2 Base 8 or 12 bit Max Line Rate 80KHz Medium...

Page 36: ...trols Exposure Time Timed Exposure Mode 4 s to 3 000 s Control Gain and Black Level The cameras provide gain and black level adjustments in the digital domain for the CMOS sensor The gain and black le...

Page 37: ...h Tap Fixed All 1365 All 1 Set Baud Rate The baud rate sets the speed in bits per second bps of the serial communication port and is available as part of the Serial Port Control parameters Serial Port...

Page 38: ...ut Direction Mirroring Mode Set the tap readout from left to right or from right to left This feature is especially useful if you want to mount the camera upside down Image Format Control Parameter De...

Page 39: ...red level out of the camera when it is imaging a uniform white object using the optical setup of the user s application The user should configure the camera to use the EXSYNC and exposure timing they...

Page 40: ...U calibration is complete it will take several seconds all three colors should be at the target value white balance gains will have been adjusted to suit the cameras optimum setup for a balanced white...

Page 41: ...is preferable to use the Basic algorithm if possible flatfieldCalibrationTarget 1 After calibration all pixels will be scaled to output this level 2 Range depends on pixel format 8 bit 0 to 255 DN 12...

Page 42: ...pecially when pixel format is less than 12 bits Typical use is to subtract minimum pixel value expected and then gain up maximum pixel value to approach full scale Offset 1 Single value added to each...

Page 43: ...tion Parameters such as camera model firmware version etc are read to uniquely identify the connected Linea device These features are typically read only The Camera Information Category groups informa...

Page 44: ...andard Features Naming Convention SFNC not shown The Device Version number represents the camera software functional group not a firmware revision number Display Name Feature Description Device Versio...

Page 45: ...et3 Select the user defined configuration UserSet 3 as the Power up Configuration UserSet4 UserSet4 Select the user defined configuration UserSet 4 as the Power up Configuration UserSet5 UserSet5 Sele...

Page 46: ...set 1 8 or factory set that is loaded or saved when the UserSetLoad or UserSetSave command is used 1 00 Beginner Load Configuration UserSetLoad Loads the camera configuration set specified by the User...

Page 47: ...onfiguration The first drop list selects the camera configuration state to load on power up see feature UserSetDefaultSelector The user chooses from one factory data set or one of two possible user sa...

Page 48: ...era controls as shown by CamExpert groups sensor specific parameters This group includes controls for line rate exposure time scan direction and gain Parameters in gray are read only either always or...

Page 49: ...the camera by either internal or external sources 1 00 Beginner Exposure Time Source ExposureMode Sets the operation mode for the camera s exposure or shutter RO 1 00 Beginner Timed Trigger Width Tim...

Page 50: ...ol category as organized by CamExpert groups together the sensor specific parameters This group includes the controls for line rate exposure time scan direction and gain Parameters in gray are read on...

Page 51: ...00 DFNC Beginner Trigger Selector Trigger Selector Defines what the trigger initiates RO 1 00 DFNC Beginner Trigger Mode Trigger Mode Determines the source of trigger to the camera internal or externa...

Page 52: ...coefficients based on average line values and target First each color is flat fielded to its peak value and then the color gains are used to achieve the target LowPass LowPass A low pass filter is fi...

Page 53: ...the edge of a film but in this case bright field back illuminated The ROI feature allows from one to four specific regions of the pixel line to be specified where flat field calibration will take pla...

Page 54: ...cts a grey scale Line Mirroring ReverseX 1 00 Beginner DFNC Off On Off On Video output in normal order Video output in a reverse order Pixel Format Pixel Format Output image pixel coding format of the...

Page 55: ...the expense of lower image resolution In 2 x 2 binning 4 physical pixels on the sensor are combined into one image pixel This operating mode is ideal for applications that require faster acquisition...

Page 56: ...um camera link modes For example in the 4k camera model if the total number of pixels for the specified AOI s is less than 1 K when using base Camera Link mode at 77 MHz the maximum EXSYNC rate can be...

Page 57: ...eledyne DALSA 03 032 20206 00 In order to initiate operation of the AOI once setup 1 The AOI mode must be changed to Active 2 Be sure to set the frame grabber image width to the sum of all AOI widths...

Page 58: ...gray are read only either always or due to another parameter being disabled Parameters in black are user set in CamExpert or programmable via an imaging application Features listed in the description...

Page 59: ...nCP Status genCPStatus If a feature read or write fails then Sapera only returns that it fails read this feature to get the actual reason for the failure Returns the last error Reading this feature cl...

Page 60: ...ot shown Display Name Feature Description Device Version View Device Registers Streaming Start DeviceRegistersStreamingStart Announces the start of registers streaming without immediate checking for c...

Page 61: ...ice Version number represents the camera software functional group not a firmware revision number Display Name Feature Description View Baud Rate DeviceSerialPortBaudRate Sets the baud rate used by th...

Page 62: ...Sets the number of stop bits to use 1 00 Beginner DFNC Stopbits1 Stopbits1 Use 1 stop bit File Access Control Category The File Access control in CamExpert allows the user to quickly upload various da...

Page 63: ...ration is executed when the File Operation Execute feature is called 1 00 Guru Open Open Select the Open operation executed by FileOperationExecute Close Close Select the Close operation executed by F...

Page 64: ...uccessfully because the selected file in not present in this camera model File Operation Result FileOperationResult Displays the file operation result For Read or Write operations the number of succes...

Page 65: ...uire a device reset command from the Camera Information Controls and additionally CamExpert should be shutdown and restarted following a reset Download a List of Camera Parameters For diagnostic purpo...

Page 66: ...66 Linea 2K and 4K Monochrome Line Scan Camera User s Manual 03 032 20206 00 Teledyne DALSA...

Page 67: ...fined in the Camera Link Specification Figure 17 Serial DLL hierarchy as mentioned in the Camera Link Specification 1 Cycle power to the camera by either a issuing the reset camera command rc or b pow...

Page 68: ...nt detector settings gcp CR A complete list of the available detector commands their format and parameters can be displayed by sending the help h command Port Configuration Baud 9 600 Bits 8 Parity No...

Page 69: ...nds are available immediately upon camera boot up Note access to GENCP is no longer available with the Esc key disabled unless a DEK 0 command is issued and the camera re booted Commands Full Name Cal...

Page 70: ...herefore the output will go to the target Because the PRNU can be less than 1 the target may be below the current maximum value Coefficients are saved and loaded with user set e g USS USL Full Name Di...

Page 71: ...Hz Meas L R 11250 Hz Max L R 22058 Hz Exp Mode Timed Exp Time 44444 ns Meas E T 44444 ns Max E T 88000 ns Test Pat 0 Off Vert Bin 1 Hor Bin 1 Flat Field Off Offset 0 System Gain 1 00 Mirror Off AOI Mo...

Page 72: ...value string h Help help string lpc Load Pixel Coefficients set 0 8 rc Reset Camera roi Set Flatfield ROI 1st pixel last pixel rpc Reset Flatfield Coefficients sac Set AOI Count value 1 4 sad Set AOI...

Page 73: ...e micro controller reboots Load any file updates Clear over temperature condition Perform start up camera tests BiST Load FPGA code Configure FPGA and sensor Load default user set Baud rate set to 960...

Page 74: ...AOI Notes Must not overlap with an already existing AOI Full Name Set AOI Mode Mnemonic SAM Argument s Mode 0 Off Disable 1 Active Enable Description Set AOI mode Notes Full Name Set Binning Horizonta...

Page 75: ...s high External mode is only available when the trigger mode is also external STM 1 SEM 1 overrides internally generated independent exposure times When CC1 signal falls line is read Full Name Exposur...

Page 76: ...ne time 1 Exposure time 1 000 ns Full Name External Trigger Mnemonic STM Argument s Mode 0 Internal 1 External Description Set trigger mode Notes In internal mode line rate is controlled by SSF comman...

Page 77: ...User sets Description Load user set Notes Loads and makes current all the settings listed by the GCP command plus the user FPN coefficients and user PRNU coefficients Full Name Save User Set Mnemonic...

Page 78: ...Failure 1 0000 FLASH_TIMEOUT 10 0000 FLASH_ERROR 100 0000 NO_FPGA_Code 1000 0000 NO_COMMON_SETTINGS 1 0000 0000 NO_FACTORY_SETTINGS 10 0000 0000 NO_USER_SETTINGS 100 0000 0000 NO_FLAT_FIELD Correction...

Page 79: ...ochrome Line Scan Camera User s Manual 79 Teledyne DALSA 03 032 20206 00 Operational Error Codes Code Description 0X8002 Invalid Parameter 0xC01C CPA_TOO_MANY_OUTLIERS 0x401E USER_FPN_CLIPPING 0x401F...

Page 80: ...ode which allows operation of up to 80 kHz line rate Set your Camera Link frame grabber up to receive the standard 8 bit full mode 2 Communicating with the Camera The camera is designed to power up wi...

Page 81: ...osure time If this line rate is too slow for your application you will get a compressed image in the scan direction You can increase the line rate by using the ssf command You can set the exposure tim...

Page 82: ...second parameter is the number of lines you want to average over Use a value of 4096 to achieve the best average o The third parameter is the 12 bit target value you want to achieve after calibration...

Page 83: ...SD damage and to avoid introducing oily residues avoid touching the sensor Scratches diffract incident illumination When exposed to uniform illumination a sensor with a scratched window will normally...

Page 84: ...aning Blow off mobile contamination using an ionized air gun Place the sensor under the microscope at a magnification of 5x to determine the location of any remaining contamination Clean the contamina...

Page 85: ...e installation manual 2 Install Sapera LT and the Teledyne DALSA frame grabber driver 3 Connect the camera to the frame grabber refer to the camera installation manual 4 Power up the camera and wait u...

Page 86: ...Device tab select an available CameraLink mode 8 Modify the camera and frame grabber parameter settings as required At present when using GenCP cameras the camera and frame grabber parameters must be...

Page 87: ...4K08A 00 R Which are components to be integrated into larger systems were evaluated according to the CE Mark FCC Part 15 VCCI Israel Korea and Industry Canada ICES 003 Evaluation and satisfy the requi...

Page 88: ...88 Linea 2K and 4K Monochrome Line Scan Camera User s Manual 03 032 20206 00 Teledyne DALSA Revision History Revision Number Change Description Revision Date 00 Initial release April 6 2014...

Page 89: ...cleaning sensor window 84 clock signals 20 commands ASCII list 69 GenICam 43 compliance 9 connectors 15 Camera Link 16 power 20 contrast enhancing 42 D data bus 19 DC offset 9 E EMC declaration 87 er...

Page 90: ...ectors 20 guidelines 20 pinout 20 precautions 6 Q QE vs wavelength 10 quantum efficiency graph 10 R random noise 9 rebooting 38 requirements PC 13 responsivity 9 graph 10 revision history 88 S safety...

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