Specifications

Function Description

Board Camera Link Specifications Rev 1.10 compliant

Half length PCI Express 1.0a x4 compliant

ROHS Compliant

Acquisition Supports two independent Base or one Medium 

Camera Link area and line scan cameras

Acquisition pixel clock rates up to 85MHz

Resolution Horizontal Size (min/max): 8 byte/256K bytes

Vertical Size (min/max): 

1 line/infinite lines for line-scan cameras

1 line/16million lines/frame for area-scan cameras

Variable length frame size from 1 to 16 million lines 

for area-scan cameras

128MB onboard frame buffer memory

Integrated advanced tap reversal engine allows 

independent tap formatting

Pixel Format and Tap 

configuration

Supports Camera Link tap configurations for 8, 10, 

or 12-bit mono, and RGB:

For Base cameras in any of the following 

combinations:

3x8-bit/tap, 2x10-bits/tap, 2x12-bit/tap, 

1x14-bit/tap, 1x16-bits/tap, & 1x24-bit/RGB

For Medium camera - 4x8-bit/tap, 4x10-bits/tap, 

4x12-bit/tap, 1x30-bit/RGB, & 1x36-bits/tap

Transfers Real-time transfers to system memory

Intelligent Data-Transfer-Engine automatically loads 

scatter-gather and tap description tables from the 

host memory without CPU intervention

On-board Processing

 Bayer Mosaic Filter Hardware Bayer Engine supports one 8 and 

10 bit Bayer camera input 

Bayer output format supports 8 or 10-bit RGB/pixel

Zero host CPU utilization for Bayer conversion

 Shading Correction On the fly Flat-line and Flat-field correction with 

dead-pixel replacement

Supports two independent monochrome cameras 

concurrently

User programmable calibration gain/offset maps

 Lookup Tables

 Monochrome Each input port has one 256x8-bit, 1024x10-bit, 

1024x8-bit, 4096x12-bit, 4096x10-bit or

4096x8-bit OLUTs

 Colour Each input port has one 8-bit in/out, 10-bit in 8 or 

10-bit out, 12-bit in 10 or 8-bit/out Lookup table

Function Description

Controls Comprehensive event notification includes 

end/start-of-field/frame/transfer

Independent timing control logic for up to two 

Camera Link cameras

Two optically ***lated TTL/LVDS trigger inputs 

programmable as active high or low 

(edge or level trigger)

Two independent TTL Strobes outputs

Two PC independent serial communications ports 

provide support 9600 to 11500K baud

Appear as system serial ports enabling seamless 

interface to host applications

Optically ***lated quadrature (AB) shaft-encoder 

inputs for external web synchronization

Supports up/down scaling

On-board I/Os 2 4-optically general purpose inputs tolerate 5V and 

24V DC signals 4 general purpose outputs

Power Output PoCL compliant (4W max.)

Power-on-reset fused +12V output @ 1.***

+5V DC output at 1.***

Software Device driver supports:

Microsoft Windows, XP and Vista compliant

Supports Microsoft Windows Vista and XP 

Professional 64-bit 3

Full support of Teledyne DALSA鈥檚 Sapera Essential, 

Sapera LT and Sapera Processing software 

libraries

Application development using C++ DLLs and 

ActiveX controls with Microsoft Visual Studio 

version 6.0 or higher

System Requirements PCI Express 1.0a compliant with one x4 slot 

system with 64MB or higher system memory

Dimensions 6.375" (16.1cm) Length X 4.20" (10.7 cm) Height

Temperature 0掳C (32掳 F) to 55掳 C (131掳 F)

Relative Humidity: up to 95% (non-condensing)

Markings FCC Class B鈥擜pproved

CE鈥擜pproved