Alpha NIR User’s Guide 412-0007-10 Ver 150
INDIGO OPERATIONS
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Users can purchase Alpha NIR as a turn-key imaging systems complete with
sensor head with power supply, digital interface cable, frame grabber board and
driver software, host PC, and custom software based on National Instruments
LabVIEW. The software, called IRvista, is a real-time image acquisition and
analysis application that provides the user with acquisition, storage, retrieval,
display, processing, and analysis of still images and video in a flexible,
convenient Windows interface. IRvista allows the user to control the sensor via
an integrated RS-232 interface. Operation of IRvista is described in detail in the
IRvista user’s manual (Indigo p/n 321.0028.10).
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LabVIEW programmers can purchase an Alpha NIR developer’s kit from Indigo
Systems Corporation. This kit includes Alpha NIR sensor head and power
supply, digital interface cable, and National Instruments PCI-1422 frame grabber,
a board which contains 16 Megabytes of on-board RAM, and which is capable of
acquiring images at the full 30-Hz frame rate that the sensor head is capable of
delivering.
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Advanced users can design their own interface to Alpha NIR using their own
digital frame grabber and camera control software. They need only purchase the
sensor head from Indigo Systems Corporation. We provide all necessary
interface documentation, including timing diagrams, connector pin-outs, and
command syntaxes in the Alpha NIR Interface Control Document (Indigo p/n
102.0003.10).
1.1 IRvista Installation Instructions
These are instructions for installing IRvista 2.51 or later revisions onto a
personal computer running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.
The recommended operating systems are Windows 2000 or Windows XP. The
recommended computer should have a P4 2.0 GHz or faster processor, at least 1
Gig of RAM, and a high-speed disk drive (7500 rpm or faster). These are
recommendations, not requirements.
PROCEDURE:
1. Open the folder called Disk 1 on the IRvista installation CD and find the folder
NI-IMAQ. The CD is Indigo part number 321-0028-00.
2. Install NI-IMAQ Version 2.5.1 from the IRvista CD only. Do not use the NI-
IMAQ CD that comes with the board! Open the folder NI-IMAQ and find
install.exe. Run install.exe.
3. Shut down the computer and install the PCI-1422 frame grabber into an unused
PCI slot. Install the PCI-1422 board using standard ESD and safety procedures.
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