framegrabbers

Our Frame Grabber Suppliers and Products

       BitFlow (USA)

     CORECO Imaging (USA) - Formerly Imaging Technology

       CyberOptics Semiconductor (USA) - Formerly Imagenation Corporation

       EPIX (USA)

       Euresys (Belgium)

       MuTech (USA)

Road Runner
By BitFlow

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The world's first multi-channel digital camera interface combines exceptional performance with proven flexibility. Designed around a sophisticated scatter/gather DMA engine, the PCI bus-mastering Road Runner offers unprecedented support for more than 50 digital cameras.

Key Features

PCI bus-mastering interface
Supports continuous burst transfers at 132 MB/sec
Acquires directly into host memory for minimum latency.
Flexible scatter/gather DMA engine
Formats multi-tap data in raster-scan order
Simultaneous data access & real-time display
Proven compatibility with over 50 popular industrial cameras

Raven

Raven is the world's first universal analog camera interface! Raven combines flexible multi-camera capabilities with proven system interface technology. A single Raven board can accept up to 4 simultaneous camera inputs. And for application flexibility, the Raven works with all analog cameras - not only standard-scan RS170/CCIR monochrome as well as NTSC/PAL, S-video(Y/C), and high-quality RGB colour cameras, but also non-standard types such as line-scanners, progressive scan, and high performance dual-tap cameras.

Key Features

Variable-scan: line-scan/progressive area-scan/dual-tap
Standard-scan: RS170/CCIR/NTSC/PAL/S-video/RGB
Acquisition from 4 cameras simultaneously
Line length up to 32K pixels and frame sizes up to 32K lines
Proven scatter/gather DMA architecture
Minimum-latency transfer to host in raster-scan order
30Mhz input channels
Independent LUT conditioning for each DMA destination
Pre-channel strobe, shaft encoder, asynchronous reset
Different video input capability
Acquisition window and frame reset control
Real-time shutter or exposure control
Continuous linescan without dropping lines

For more information, please visit BitFlow's web site at http://www.bitflow.com or or contact Ultravision for any other assistance.

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PCVision
By Coreco Imaging

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PCVision is a half-slot PCI bus image capture board designed specifically for price sensitive OEMs developing machine vision applications. Able to handle inputs from a large variety of industrial inspection, identification, and gauging applications, the PCVision board can interface with standard interlaced (RS-170, CCIR) or progressive scan (VGA) cameras.

Unique to PCVision is 2 MB of on-board VRAM memory for buffering image data between the camera and host PC system. This feature, something you won't find in other low-cost machine vision boards, allows image transfers over the PCI bus that are 10 times faster than competitors. This allows for simultaneous acquisition and processing of data. The on-board memory also assures that image information will not be lost during transfer to system memory.

PCVision supports external trigger, strobes and frame reset capabilities. A 16-bit digital I/O interface for communicating results to control devices is built on-board.

Other frame grabbers by Coreco Imaging:

        Entry-Level PCI Bus Frame Grabbers
            PCVision - Economical Frame Grabber Exclusively for Machine Vision
            PC-COMP - Standard Composite Cameras

        High-Performance PCI Bus Frame Grabbers
            IC-COMP - Standard Composite Cameras
            IC-ASYNC - Asynchronous Image Capture for Multi-Point Inspection Applications
            IC-RGB - RGB Colour and Variable Scan Cameras
            IC-DIG - Digital Line and Area Scan Cameras
            IC-FA - Fast Analog and Variable Scan Cameras
            IC-MTD - Digital Multi-Tap Cameras

For more information, please visit Imaging Technology's web site at http://www.imaging.com or or contact Ultravision for any other assistance.

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PIXCI-SV4
By Epix

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The PIXCI SV4 imaging board, for the PCI bus, is designed to take advantage of the power of the host computer. Applications which were once restricted by limited memory or processing power can now be easily accomplished with the PIXCI SV4 board and a compatible PCI computer.

Key Features

Formats Supported: S-Video, NTSC, RS-170, CCIR, PAL
PCI Bus Master
Real-Time Transfer to PCI Bus
Crop, Scale, and View in a Window
Automatic Format Detection
4 Input Triggers and 4 Output Triggers
Programmable Hue, Brightness, Saturation, and Contrast
Plug 'N Play Operation
Extensive Software

PIXCI-D

The PIXCI D imaging board is factory programmed to interface to your particular model of digital output camera. Install the board, attach the interface cable between the board and camera, and run your imaging software - that's all there is to it!

The digital connection provides cleaner images and greater dynamic range. Use of the camera's pixel clock eliminates jitters. PIXCI D captures image sequences, at the camera's video rate, to the limit of your computer's memory. EPIX software is available as DLLs, C-function libraries, or as a full-featured interactive image capture, display, examination, processing, measurement, printing, and archiving program.

Key Features

Line Scan or Area Scan
One or Two Channel (Four Channel Coming Soon!)
8 to 20 Bit Camera Data (32 Bit Coming Soon!)
External Trigger In/Out
32 bit PCI Bus Master
132 MB/s Burst Transfers
Image Sequence Storage to Motherboard Memory
Asynchronous Capture Control
Camera Integration and Reset Control
WinNT, Win95, DOS Software
Call about Other Cameras

For more information, please visit Epix's web site at http://www.epixinc.com or or contact Ultravision for any other assistance.

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PICOLO
By Euresys

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Picolo is a very low-cost PCI frame grabber optimized for single camera applications. It supports the acquisition and the real-time transfer of full resolution color images or sequences of images to the PC memory. Picolo captures one or two composite video signals and one S-Video signal. The square-pixel resolution (640 x 480 or 768 x 576) is achieved at full frame rate (30 or 25 fps).

Picolo is the ideal frame grabber for cost-sensitive applications in the fields of machine vision, access control, x-ray inspection.

Key Features

Up to three cameras can be connected. Picolo acquires images from any one of them.
Low cost
Industrial applications and video surveillance
Four TTL-compatible input / output lines are available on the female DB9 connector. One line can be configured as an external acquisition trigger.

DOMINO Alpha 2

The Domino Alpha 2 is equipped with two 8-bit A/D converters. Their maximum sampling rate of 32 MHz allows the Domino Alpha 2 to support double-speed cameras. This Domino frame grabber also offers two 8-bit input look-up tables and a programmable input filter (20, 10 or 5 MHz). The controls of the gain and offset are also programmable.

Key Features

Two single-tap or one dual-tap camera
Two 8-bit 32 MHz A/D converters
8-Mbyte on board memory
PCI bus 32 bits, 33 MHz, 3 V or 5 V.
DMA (2 simultaneous channels) and PCI bus mastering are supported.
two HD15 camera connectors and one DB9 I/O connector.
fully compatible with the Domino Alpha board and can replace it

For more information, please visit Epix's web site at http://www.euresys.com or or contact Ultravision for any other assistance.

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PX-610
By CyberOptics Semiconductor

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The PX610 offers full support for non-interlaced video from progressive scan cameras, which eliminates blur seen in images of fast-moving objects captured by standard CCD cameras. In addition to non-interlaced video, the PX610 supports standard RS-170/CCIR video and resettable cameras. Acting as a bus master, it handles data transfers while the main CPU is free to run other parts of your application or other applications. Image data can be transferred to a buffer in main memory or directly to another PCI device. The PX610 accepts up to four video inputs and can select the active source under software control.

As a plug and play-compliant device, the PX610 automatically configures itself when installed in a computer with a Plug and Play BIOS.

Key Features

Compact, PCI short-card

Plug and Play Auto Configuration

PCI bus master design for real-time image capture

Support for non-interlaced video from progressive scan cameras

Resettable camera support with high precision digital synchronization

Four multiplexed video inputs with automatic video format detection

Standard capture resolutions of 640 x 480 x 8 (RS-170) and 768 x 576 x 8 (CCIR)

Vertical and horizontal cropping and scaling to minimize memory and bus bandwidth requirements

Software development support for DOS, Watcom DOS/4GW extender, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT applications

Support for C/C++ language and Visual Basic

Software and manual included

For technical details, please visit CyberOptics Semiconductor's web site at http://www.imagenation.com or contact Ultravision for any other assistance.

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M-Vision 1000
By MuTech Corporation

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The M-VISION 1000 (MV-1000) is a single slot video digitiser board for the PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus. The MV-1000 digitises standard or non-standard analog camera video into 8 bits per pixel at rates up to 40 million samples per second. An optional 10 bit version is available for ultra high quality video applications. The digitised video is stored in on-board VRAM or transferred in real time to system memory and/or the VGA card for display. Up to four cameras may be attached to a single MV-1000.

Key Features

Single slot PCI Local Bus Frame Grabber

0-40 M samples/second digitisation

Digital Input Module (optional MV-1100)

External I/O Controls

Configurable Memory

Plug and Play Auto Configuration

Slave and Master Mode Data Transfer

M-Vision 500

The M-Vision 500 is a high quality, colour/monochrome frame grabber, capable of digitising video and transferring the digital data to system memory or the VGA display in real time. The M-Vision 500 is a surface mount 1/3 size (160mm) PCI card that captures composite NTSC/PAL, Y/C, or RS-170/CCIR video, as well as, non-interlaced video from progressive scan cameras. A trigger input allows the detection of an event and generates an interrupt to grab the video. Video is captured at 30 frames per second (NTSC) of 25 frames per second (PAL).

Key Features

Low cost, high quality, colour/monochrome frame grabber

132 Mbytes/second master mode transfer

Scatter/Gather DMA controller

1/3 size PCI 2.1 compliant card

NTSC, PAL, S-Video, RS-170/CCIR

Image Mirroring

I/O trigger, event, strobe

TWAIN and MCI drivers

Other Products by MuTech Corporation:

Image/VGA-400 PCI Bus Frame Grabber - designed for image analysis and machine vision
M-Vision 1000 PCI Bus Frame Grabber - designed for image analysis and machine vision
M-Vision 1500 - Digital Camera Interface
M-Vision 200 - Half size ISA bus frame grabber

For technical details, please visit MuTech's web site at http://www.mutech.com or contact Ultravision for any other assistance.

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