Preliminary
General Description and Architecture
Firmware, Camera Files and Downloads
Version F.0
BitFlow, Inc.
KBN-1-5
1.2 Firmware, Camera Files and Downloads
Note that all the devices present on a Karbon will appear in SysReg as separate Bit-
Flow Boards Found. The order that the VFGs appear in SysReg is determined by the
operating system and is somewhat arbitrary. However, SysReg list the connector(s)
associated with each VFG, so that the connection can be made between VFG and
physical connected camera.
Recall that, even though Karbon may appear like four frame grabbers, there is only
one actual hardware platform. For this reason the firmware of the of the VFGs on one
board is linked. The selection of the master VFG, determines the configurations of all
of slave VFGs. For example, if you have a KBN-PCE-CL2-D and you configure the mas-
ter VFG with a two-tap odd/even pixel camera, then the slave VFG will also have to be
configure for a two-tap odd/even pixel camera. In all other ways, however, the two
configurations do not have to match. If you have a requirement where this rule must
be broken, please contact BitFlow’s support department. Custom combinations of
firmware are available.
If there is a mismatch between the firmware required by one VFG’s camera file and
the firmware required by another VFG’s camera file, the master VFG’s firmware will
get priority. In practice this means that if you change the camera file for the master
VFG, and it requires different firmware than is already on the board, new firmware will
be downloaded next time you start an application. However, in the case of a slave
VFG, if different firmware is required than is on the board, an error message will pop
up indicating the problem. Thus all the camera files for a all the VFGs on one Karbon
should all require the same firmwarre. That said, if you have a custom need for a par-
ticular arrangement of cameras, please let us know. We can create custom firmware to
solve almost any problem.
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