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Overview
Xtium2-CL MX4 User's Manual
User Programmable Configurations
The Xtium2-CL MX4 supports the following Camera Link configurations, using one of 3 available
firmware designs:
Table 5: Xtium2-CL MX4 Firmware Configurations
Firmware
Supported Camera Link Configurations
One Full Camera Link Input
(
installation default selection
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1 Base, 1 Medium or 1 Full Camera Link monochrome or bayer
camera, 1/2/3/4/6/8 tap segmented, 2 taps alternate, or
2/3/4/6/8 taps parallel.
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1 Base or 1 Medium Camera Link RGB camera, 1 tap and 2 taps
segmented/parallel.
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Full Camera Link packed RGB camera.
One 80-bit Camera Link
Input
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One 10 Tap @ 8-bit monochrome or bayer camera
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One 8 Tap @ 10-bit monochrome or bayer camera
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One 80-bit packed RGB camera
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One 80-bit packed Bi-Color camera
Two Base Camera Link Input
(any 2 of the supported
configuration)
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Base Camera Link monochrome or Bayer camera, 1/2/3 tap
segmented, 2 taps alternate, 2/3 taps parallel.
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Base Camera Link RGB camera, 1 tap
Use the Xtium2-CL MX4 firmware firmware loader function in the Teledyne DALSA Device manager
utility to select firmware for one of the supported modes. Firmware selection is made either during
driver installation or manually later on (see Firmware Update: Manual Mode).
ACUPlus: Acquisition Control Unit
ACUPlus consists of a grab controller, one pixel packer, and one time base generator per camera
input. ACUPlus delivers a flexible acquisition front end and supports pixel clock rates of up to
85MHz.
ACUPlus acquires variable frame sizes up to 64KB per horizontal line and up to 64K lines per frame.
ACUPlus can also capture an infinite number of lines from a line scan camera without losing a
single line of data.
