Coaxlink Quad G3

Form factor

PCI Express card

Format

Standard profile, half length, 4-lane PCI Express card

Cooling method

Air cooling, fan-cooled heatsink

Mounting

For insertion in a standard height, 4-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot

Connectors

'A B C D' on card bracket:

4 x DIN 1.0/2.3 75 Ohms coaxial receptacles

CoaXPress Host Interface

'EXTERNAL I/O' on card bracket:

26-pin 3-row high-density D-Sub female socket with UNC4-40 jack socket screws

I/O lines and I/O power output

'INTERNAL I/O 1' on printed circuit board:

26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding

I/O lines and I/O power output

'INTERNAL I/O 2' on printed circuit board:

26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding

I/O lines and I/O power output

'C2C-LINK' on printed circuit board:

6-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding

Card-to-card link

'AUXILIARY POWER INPUT' on printed circuit board:

6-pin PEG power socket

12 V DC power input for PoCXP and I/O power output

LED indicators

'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' on bracket:

Bi-color red/green LEDs

CoaXPress Host connector indicator

'FPGA STATUS LAMP' on PCB:

Bi-color red/green LED

FPGA status indicator

'BOARD STATUS LAMP' on PCB:

Bi-color red/green LED

Board status indicator

Switches

'RECOVERY' on PCB:

3-pin 1-row 0.1" header or 2-way DIP switch

Firmware emergency recovery

Dimensions

PCB L x H: 167.65 mm x 111.15 mm [6.6 in x 4.38 in]

Weight

Net weight: 173 g [6.1 oz]

Gross weight: 274 g [9.7 oz]

Standard

PCI Express 3.0

Link width

4 lanes

1 lane or 2 lanes with reduced performance

Link speed

8.0 GT/s (PCIe 3.0)

5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0) with reduced performance

Maximum payload size

512 bytes

DMA

32- and 64-bit

Peak delivery bandwidth

3,900 MB/s

Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth

3,350 MB/s (Host PC motherboard dependent)

Power consumption

Typ. 16.8 W (3.8 W @ +3.3V, 13 W @ +12V), excluding camera and I/O power output

Camera interface standard

CoaXPress

Interface standard(s)

CoaXPress 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1, 2.0 and 2.1

Maximum link speed

CXP-6

Maximum link width

4 connections

Camera powering

PoCXP

Connectors

Four DIN1.0/2.3 75 Ohms CXP-6

Status LEDs

One CoaXPress Host connection status LED per connection

Number of cameras

Area-scan cameras:

One 1- or 2- or 4-connection camera

One 1- or 2- or 4-connection multi-stream camera (up to 4 data streams)

One or two 1- or 2-connection cameras

One 1- or 2-connection and one or two 1-connection cameras

Up to four 1-connection cameras

One 4-connection sub-link of an 8-connection camera

Line-scan cameras:

One 1- or 2- or 4-connection camera

One or two 1- or 2-connection cameras

Up to four 1-connection cameras

Maximum number of cameras

4

Line-scan cameras supported

Yes

Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate

25 Gbps (2,500 MB/s)

Supported CXP down-connection speeds

1.25 Gbps (CXP-1), 2.5 Gbps (CXP-2), 3.125 Gbps (CXP-3), 5 Gbps (CXP-5), and 6.25 Gbps (CXP-6)

Number of CXP data streams (per camera)

4 on '1-camera, 4 data-stream' firmware variant

1 per camera on other firmware variants

Maximum CXP stream packet size

16,384 bytes

PoCXP (Power over CoaXPress)

PoCXP Safe Power:

17 W of 24V DC regulated power per CoaXPress connector

PoCXP Device detection and automatic power-on

Overload and short-circuit protections

On-board 12V to 24V DC/DC converter

A +12V power source must be connected to the AUXILIARY POWER INPUT connector using a 6-pin PEG cable

Camera types

Area-scan cameras:

Grayscale and color (YCbCr, YUV, RGB and Bayer CFA)

Single-tap (1X-1Y) progressive-scan

Line-scan cameras and contact imaging sensors:

Grayscale and color RGB

Camera pixel formats supported

Mono8, Mono10, Mono12, Mono14, Mono16

BayerXX8, BayerXX10, BayerXX12, BayerXX14, BayerXX16 where XX = GR, RG, GB, or BG

RGB8, RGB10, RGB12, RGB14, RGB16

RGBA8, RGBA10, RGBA12, RGBA14, RGBA16

YCbCr601_422_8, YCbCr601_422_10

YCbCr709_422_8, YCbCr709_422_10

YUV422_8, YUV422_10

Raw

Trigger

Precise control of asynchronous reset cameras, with exposure control.

Support of camera exposure/readout overlap.

Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay and trigger decimation.

Strobe

Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.

Support of early and late strobe pulses.

Scan/page trigger

Precise control of start-of-scan and end-of-scan triggers.

Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay.

Support of infinite acquisition, without missing line, for web inspection applications.

Line trigger

Support for quadrature motion encoders, with programmable noise filters, selection of acquisition direction and backward motion compensation.

Rate Converter tool for fine control of the pixel aspect ratio: Rate Conversion Ratio in the range 0.001 to 1000 with an accuracy better than 0.1%.

Rate Divider tool

Line strobe

Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.

On-board memory

1 GB

Image data stream processing

Unpacking of 10-/12-/14-bit to 16-bit with selectable justification to LSb or MSb

Optional swap of R and B components

Little endian conversion

Flat-field correction

Only available with the '1-camera' and '1-camera, line-scan' firmware variants

Input LUT (Lookup Table)

Available on all the firmware variants but '1-camera, 4-data-stream':

Monochrome 8-bit to 8-bit transformation

Monochrome 10-bit to 8-, 10- or 16-bit transformations

Monochrome 12-bit to 8-, 12- or 16-bit transformations

Bayer CFA to RGB decoder

'1-camera' firmware variant:

3x3 linear interpolation method

3x3 median-based interpolation method

'2-camera' firmware variant:

5x5 gradient-based interpolation method (for one camera only)

Data stream statistics

Measurement of:

Frame rate (Area-scan only)

Line rate

Data rate

Configurable averaging interval

Event signaling and counting

The application software can be notified of the occurrence of various events:

Standard event: the EVENT_NEW_BUFFER event notifies the application of newly filled buffers

A large set of custom events

Custom events sources:

I/O Toolbox events

Camera and Illumination control events

CoaXPress data stream events

CoaXPress host interface events

Each custom event is associated with a 32-bit counter that counts the number of occurrences

The last three 32-bit context data words of the event context data can be configured with event-specific context data:

Event-specific data

State of all System I/O lines sampled at the event occurrence time

Value of any event counter

Number of lines

20 I/O lines:

4 differential inputs (DIN)

4 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs (TTLIO)

8 isolated inputs (IIN)

4 isolated outputs (IOUT)

Usage

Any I/O input lines can be used by any LIN tool of the I/O Toolbox

Selected pairs of I/O input lines can be used by any QDC tool of the I/O toolbox to decode A/B signals of a motion encoder

Electrical specifications

DIN: High-speed differential inputs, up to 5 MHz, compatible with ANSI/EIA/TIA-422/485 differential line drivers and complementary TTL drivers

TTLIO: High-speed 5V-compliant TTL inputs or LVTTL outputs, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers or LVTTL, TTL, 3V CMOS receivers

IIN: Isolated current-sense inputs with wide voltage input range up to 30V, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers, RS-422 differential line drivers, potential free contacts, solid-state relays and opto-couplers

IOUT: Isolated contact outputs compatible with 30V / 100mA loads

NOTE: IIN and IOUT lines provide a functional isolation grade for the circuit technical protection. It does not provide an isolation that can protect a human being from electrical shock!

Filter control

Glitch removal filter available on all System I/O input lines

Configurable filter delay:

Custom value

Fixed values for DIN and TTLIO lines: 50 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns, 1 µs

Fixed values for IIN lines: 500 ns, 1 µs, 2 µs, 5 µs, 10 µs

Polarity control

Yes

Power output

Non-isolated, +12V, 1A, with electronic fuse protection

I/O Toolbox tools

The I/O Toolbox is a configurable interconnection of tools that generates events (usually triggers):

Line Input tool (LIN): edge detector delivering events on rising or falling edges of any selected input line.

Quadrature Decoder tool (QDC): a composite tool including:

A quadrature edge detector delivering events on selected transitions of selected pairs of input lines.

An optional backward motion compensator for clean line-scan image acquisition when the motion is unstable.

A 32-bit up/down counter for delivering a position value.

Device Link Trigger tool (DLT): delivers an event on reception of a valid high-speed CoaXPress 2.0 connection trigger packet message from the remote device.

User Actions Scheduler tool (UAS): to delegate the execution of 'User Actions' at a scheduled time or encoder position. Possible user actions include setting low/high/toggle any bit of the User Output Register or generation of any User Events.

Delay tool (DEL): to delay up to 16 events from one or two I/O toolbox event sources, by a programmable time or number of motion encoder ticks (any QDC events).

Divider tool (DIV): to generate an event every nth input events from any I/O toolbox event source.

Multiplier/divider tool (MDV): to generate m events every d input events from any I/O toolbox event source.

The 'Input Tools' (LIN, QDC, DLT and UAS) can be further processed by the 'Event Tools' (DEL, DIV and MDV) to generate any of the following "trigger" events:

The "cycle trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller

The "cycle sequence trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller

The "start-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)

The "end-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)

I/O Toolbox composition

Determined by the selected firmware variant:

'1-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 C2C

'2-camera': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 C2C

'3-camera': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 C2C

'4-camera': 8 LIN, 4 QDC, 1 UAS, 4 DEL, 4 DIV, 4 MDV, 2 C2C

'1-camera, 4-data-stream': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 C2C

'1-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C

'2-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 3 C2C

'4-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 4 QDC, 1 UAS, 4 DEL, 4 DIV, 4 MDV, 3 C2C

'1-slm-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C

'1-sls-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C

Description

Accurate synchronization of the trigger and the start-of-exposure of multiple grabber-controlled area-scan cameras.

Accurate synchronization of the start-of-cycle, start-of-scan and end-of-scan of multiple grabber-controlled line-scan cameras.

Specification

C2C-Link synchronizes cameras connected to:

the same card

to different cards in the same PC (requires an accessory cable such as the "3303 C2C-Link Ribbon Cable" or a custom-made C2C-Link cable)

to different cards in different PCs (requires one "1636 InterPC C2C-Link Adapter" for each PC and one RJ 45 CAT 5 STP straight LAN cable for each adapter but the last one)

Maximum distance:

120 cm inside a PC

1200 m cumulated adapter to adapter cable length

Maximum trigger rate:

2.5 MHz for configurations using a single PC, or up to 10 PCs and 100 m total C2C-Link cable length

200 kHz for configurations up to 32 PCs and 1200m total C2C-Link cable length

Trigger propagation delay from master to slave devices:

Less than 10 ns for cameras on the same card or on different cards in the same PC

Less than 265 ns for cameras on different cards in different PCs (3 PCs and 40m total C2C-Link cable length)

Driver name

eGrabber

First release

Coaxlink 4.0

Current release

eGrabber 25.12

Host PC Operating System

Microsoft Windows 11, 10 for x86-64 (64-bit) processor architecture

Linux for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures

macOS for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures

APIs

EGrabber class, with C++ and .NET APIs: .NET assembly designed to be used with development environments compatible with .NET frameworks version 4.6 or higher

GenICam GenTL producer libraries compatible with C/C++ compilers:

'x86_64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86-64 (64-bit) applications

'aarch64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of AArch64 (64-bit) applications

Memento supported

Yes

Operating ambient air temperature

0°C to +55°C / +32°F to +131°F

Operating ambient air humidity

10% to 90% RH non-condensing

Storage ambient air temperature

-20°C to +70°C/ -4°F to +158°F

Storage ambient air humidity

10% to 90% RH non-condensing

EMC standards

European Council EMC Directive 2014/30/EU

United States FCC CFR Title 47 Part 15B

EMC - Emission

EN 55032:2015 / CISPR 32:2012 Class B

FCC CFR Title 47 Part 15B Class B

EMC - Immunity

EN 55024:2010 / CISPR 24:2010

EN 61000-4-2:2009

EN 61000-4-3:2006

EN 61000-4-4:2004

EN 61000-4-6:2014

KC Certification

Korean Radio Waves Act, Article 58-2, Clause 3

Flammability

PCB compliant with UL 94 V-0

RoHS

European Union Directive 2015/863 (ROHS3)

REACH

European Union Regulation 1907/2006

WEEE

Must be disposed of separately from normal household waste and must be recycled according to local regulations