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Camera Link
9.
®
Interface
The Camera Link
®
interface was specifically developed for cameras in machine vision ap
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plications and provides high transfer rates and low latency. Depending on the configura
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tion (Base, Medium or Full) the transfer rate adds up to 800 MBytes/sec.
Cameras of the Baumer HXC series are equipped with a Camera Link
®
Full interface and
therewith able to transmit up to 800 MBytes/sec.
9.1 Channel Link and LVDS Technology
Camera Link
®
bases upon the Channel Link
®
technology, but provides a specification, that
is more beneficial for machine vision.
Channel Link
®
in turn is an advancement of the LDVS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling)
standard – a low power, high speed interface standard.
The Channel Link
®
technology consists of a transmitter receiver pair with 21, 28 or 48
single-ended data signals and a single-ended clock signal can be wired on transmitter
side. Within the transmitter the data is serialized with a ratio of 7:1. Afterwards the four re
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sulting data streams and the clock signal are transferred via five LVDS pairs. On receiver
side the four LVDS data streams and the LVDS clock are reordered to parallel signals and
afterwards forwarded to further processing.
Camera Signals
9.2
The standard designates three different signal types, provided via standard Camera Link
®
cable:
Serial
9.2.1
Communication
The standard regulates two LVDS pairs are allocated for asynchronous serial communi
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cation between the camera and the frame grabber. Cameras and frame grabbers should
support at least 9600 baud serial communication.
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Channel Link
®
opera-
tion.