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.

Beside standard CCIR and RS170 cameras, the Domino Alpha 2 also supports any kind of single-tap or dual-tap analog camera, with progressive or interlaced scanning, synchronous timing or asynchronous reset and asynchronous shutter control. The high-resolution capability of the board is compatible with top-notch cameras (mega-pixel cameras are supported).

Two single-tap cameras can be used simultaneously and completely independently with one Domino Alpha 2. In this configuration, the cameras do not have to be synchronized. Each of them has its own trigger and strobe line, and they acquire their images into two separate buffers in PC memory.

A multi-mode synchronization system is available and includes the pixel clock and PLL locking. The Domino series boards interface a wide range of cameras from various manufacturers.

• two independent single-tap or one dual-tap-camera
• two 8-bit 32 MHz A/D-converter
• 8-Mbyte memory on board
• two 8-Bit lookup-tables
• programmableinput filter (20-,10-, 5-MHz)
• gain- and offset-control
• Sub-D-connector (15-pin) for camera input,
  I/O, Trigger, Strobe (9-pin).
  

  The Domino Alpha 2 bracket offers two HD15 camera connectors and one DB9 I/O connector. The HD15 connector are compliant with the Euresys-defined analog camera connector and includes camera power supply (12VDC). The DB9 connector incorporates three external trigger and flash strobe TTL lines. These connectors are compatible with the Domino Iota and Domino Gamma, simplifying cable manufacturing.

• PCI bus 32 bits, 33 MHz, 3 V or 5 V
• two independent DMA channels for concurrent data transfer with scatter-gather support
• Bus mastering
Bus mastering:
All Euresys frame grabbers are PCI bus mastering agents that directly store the acquired images into the PC physical memory without CPU involvement. As a unique feature, the EureCard automatically recovers the scatter-gather virtual memory mapping to present the data as a regular bitmap image in a user allocated memory buffer.
• Supported by
• MultiCam Driver for Windows and Linux

  MultiCam Driver:
  The Multicam driver enables the consistent control of several Euresys frame grabbers, using an arbitrary number of cameras, from one or several software applications. Multicam allows defining channels linking cameras to buffers in the PC memory. The Multicam channel identifies all parameters ruling the acquisition process from a camera. Every camera feature, such as its type, resolution or image format, is described and controlled through simple parameters, considerably easing the camera control task. For each channel-controlled camera, a set of dedicated parameters is created from a CAM file. Euresys delivers pre-defined files for many popular cameras; still the user can customize its CAM file. MultiCam complies with most development enviroments like MS Visual C++, Borland C++ Builder, Delphi and Active X.
  Linux is also supported.

• EasyMultiCam C++

  EasyMultiCam:
  Offered as a part of the eVision tools suite, EasyMulticam is a set of powerful C++ classes embedding the whole MultiCam functionality. The object oriented eVision functions define image containers suitable for image processing and analysis. The image objects inherit acquisition methods from EasyMultiCam. Implementing the image capture code into a machine vision application is now straightforward.