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20. FRAME
RATES.
The actual Frame rate of the camera is determined by settings within the ControlFPGA and the DateFPGA.
The ControlFPGA settings determine the data rate from the sensor by adjusting the ROI (Region of
Interest), exposure rate and exposure delay. The DataFPGA settings determine the binning settings(which
can increase frame rate as there is less data to send over the Camera Link Interface), the Camera link
mode and clock speed. To get the fastest frame rate possible for a given ROI you can calculate the
minimum required Line Period (in pixels clocks) by the following formula.
Min Line Period =
((Time_required_over_Camera_Link – Time_to_gather_data_from_sensor) / 1/66Mhz) – 132 (clocks per
line)
The time required to send each row of data over the Camera Link is calculated by:
Time_required_over_Camera_Link =
(Num_Data_pixels_per_row / Num_Taps ) * 1/Selected_Clock_rate
The time required to gather each row of data from the sensor is calculated by:
Time_to_gather_data_from_sensor = 132 (clocks per row min) * 1/66Mhz = 2us
Num_Data_pixels_per_row =
(((# of cols in ROI * 10pixels/column) / Horiz_binning) / Vertical_binning)
So for example, when running full resolution (1280 pixels per row), no binning, in 1Tap mode at 33Mhz
clock rate the calculation is:
Time_required_over_Camera_Link – 2us / 1/66Mhz) – 132 (clocks per line)
38.7us – 2us / 1/66Mhz = 2422 – 132 = 2290
Thus the Minimum line period needs to be set to 2290, which adds that many clocks per line read from the
sensor, which results in a frame rate of 1/(1024 rows * 38.7us per row) or about 25 full resolution frames
per second.
If we up the clock rate over the Camera Link to 85Mhz and switch to 8Tap mode then the limiting factor
becomes the time to gather the data from the sensor:
Time_required_over_Camera_Link = 1280/8 * 1/85Mhz = 1.88uS
The time duration of 1.88uS to output the line is less than the time required to gather the sensor data of
2uS so we do not need to extend the line length and the Minimum Line period can be set to 0.
20.1. Memory
Operation.
The FC13 DataFPGAa connects to the DdrFPGA via a high speed SERDES link. This link is 13 bits wide
and is able to transmit 104 bits of data to the DdrFPGA at the sensor clock speed (66Mhz). This data path
consists of 100 bits of data (10, 10bit pixels), 2 bits of control (Lval, Fval), and 2 spare bits.
20.2.
DATA FPGA Technical Details.
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