Hardware and system overview
System architecture & Internal hardware features
System Architecture
CURRERA-R (further referred to as the “device”) is essentially an ultra compact Personal Computer
(PC) and Machine Vision Camera, integrated within compact and rugged IP67 class housing.
Its image sensor is connected to the PC via a 2.5Gbit/s high speed data bus. The entire transfer of im-
age data to RAM transfer is highly optimized and requires no CPU resources. All the CPU capacity is
available for the Vision or Imaging Software.
The PC is powered by a 45nm technology INTEL ATOM x86 CPU with 1.1GHz or 1.6GHz processor
clock. It further has 533MHz DDR2 data RAM and Solid State Drive (SSD) with error correction and
wear balancing. Independent system watch dog processor monitors system health and is capable of
restarting the system in the case of a power supply brown out and/or software malfunction.
Interfaces
Similar to the standard PC, CURRERA-R is equipped with a complete set of hardware interfaces
providing connectivity to standard PC peripherals including the Gigabit Ethernet, USB, RS-232 and
Isolated Digital parallel I/O’s for connection to Automation Interfaces and target hardware integration.
One external Micro SD card slot is available for extended nonvolatile storage. XVGA analog interface
is available for the connection to a standard PC monitor.
Power supply options and requirements
Versatile power supply options CURRERA-R either over Gigabit Ethernet, using Power Over Ethernet
(PoE) standard in a Class 0 device, or through the System Port from external DC source, ranging from
12V to 48V DC. Actual power requirements range will be from 7W to 13.5W depending on the supply
voltage and CPU usage.
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