
Hardware
MC13xx Users Manual Rev. 1.19
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3 Hardware
3.1 Camera Link® Interface
Camera Link® is designed for digital cameras in machine vision applications. A “Full Camera Link®”
interface can transfer up to 64 bits of data at a rate of >528 Mbytes/sec.
3.1.1 Serial
interface
The communication via the serial interface is incorporated in the “Base Camera Link® interface. A de-
scription of the connector pinning is in chapter
9.3
.
3.2 Power
supply
The camera needs a DC supply voltage between 8 … 24 V at a power consumption of 6,0 Watt max..
See also
Connector pinning
.
*
Before applying power to the camera we strongly recommend to verify the used pins of the
power connector, the polarity (+/-) of the leads and the supply voltage.
The camera may only be used with a supply voltage according to the camera specification.
Connecting a lower or higher supply voltage, AC voltage, reversal polarity or using wrong
pins of the power connector may damage the camera. If doing so, the warranty will expire
immediately.
3.3 Status
LED
A dual colour LED on the camera backplane shows the operating condition of the MC13xx.
LED orange...
The MC13xx is configuring the internal FPGA. No other activity is possible.
LED green...
The MC13xx is fully operational.
LED off...
If LED is off, despite the camera is powered, the FPGA configuration data is re-
loaded via the serial interface and stored in internal EEPROM. No other activity
is possible.
LED red...
red LED that the FPGA could not be loaded because of wrong FPGA configura-
tion data. Try to
reload configuration
data.