Active Silicon AS-FBD-1XCLD-2PE4L Frame Grabber

FireBird Camera Link 80-bit Low Profile is a member of Active Silicon’s state-of-the-art FireBird frame grabber family.  The low profile design allows the FireBird Low Profile board to be used in small embedded PC enclosures and rackmount cases where full height PC cards are not suitable. A full height bracket option of this product is available for use in standard PC form factor enclosures.

FireBird is designed for ultimate performance using Active Silicon’s proprietary DMA Engine technology, “ActiveDMA”. This technical innovation applies RISC based processor techniques and guaranties zero CPU intervention, high speed and low latency image data transfers.

FireBird supports the latest version 2.0 Camera Link specification, including both 80 bit modes: 8 bit 10 tap and 10 bit 8 tap modes – often referred to as Camera Link “Deca”, at clock rates up to 85 MHz.  The 4 lane Gen2 interface used on the FireBird is fast enough to cope with the full data rate that the Camera Link 80-bit interface can support.  The FireBird also supports capture from two simultaneous Base Camera Link cameras as well as single Base, Medium and Full configurations.

FireBird is supported by Active Silicon’s PHX software development kit (SDK), which also allows easy migration for customers using Phoenix frame grabbers.  The PHX SDK is available as a separate item, and allows rapid system development and integration.  It provides comprehensive example applications and optimized runtime libraries, and is available for a variety of operating systems via a common API, including Windows and Linux (32 bit and 64 bit environments) as well as Mac OS X and QNX.  Drivers for third party applications are also available such as Cognex VisionPro, HALCON, Common Vision Blox, StreamPix, LabVIEW etc.  As well as functions that control the hardware, the libraries include general purpose functions for the manipulation and display of images.

FireBird also supports GenICam for Camera Link cameras which support CLProtocol, including those using GenCP.  A GenTL Producer is provided as part of the FireBird driver installation which allows the frame grabber to be used with GenICam GenTL compliant applications.

• Supports the latest v2.0 Camera Link interface.
• Half length PCI Express form-factor.
• Low profile or full height bracket options available.
• Camera Link mini connectors (HDR/SDR).
• Supports PoCL (Power over Camera Link).
• Comprehensive I/O.
• RISC based ActiveDMA gives zero CPU usage acquisition.
• Supported by the proven PHX SDK.
• Supports GenICam for CLProtocol & GenCP cameras.
• Includes GenICam GenTL Producer.

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