Euresys - GrabLink EXPERT

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The EureCard Grablink Expert 2 is a Camera Link frame grabber for demanding industrial applications. Supporting the Base or Medium configuration, it can be connected to one or two cameras. The GrabLink Expert 2 is a 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI bus frame grabber. Each camera delivers images at a maximum speed of 66 MHz over the data paths towards the on board memory.

Grablink Expert 2 is a Camera Link compatible frame grabber fitted with two Camera Link connectors. It acquires images simultaneously and independently from two line-scan or area-scan digital cameras in a dual Base configuration. Grablink Expert 2 also supports one camera in the Medium configuration.

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Features

Dual Base or Medium configuration
up to 48 bits at 66 MHz
Single-Tap (8 bis 16 Bit), Dual-Tap (8 bis 12 Bit) oder RGB- (3 x 8 Bit) Kameras anschliessbar
16-MByte on board memory

I/O-Modul for trigger, strobe and 16 configurable I/O-lines

Grablink Expert 2 PCI is delivered with an auxiliary I/O board implementing the trigger and strobe facilities. The bracket is fitted with two connectors. On the female DB9 connector, system components (such as a motion encoder) benefit from isolated I/O lines and power supply. TTL trigger and strobe lines are available on a female DB25 together with 16 fully programmable general-purpose I/O lines.
On the Grablink Expert 2 cPCI, the two I/O connectors, DB 25 and DB 9, are located directly on the front panel.

Form factors: desktop PCI and Compact PCI, 64 bits 66 Mhz bus

The EureCard Grablink Expert 2 is available in two form factors, PCI and cPCI. Both are designed for high-speed acquisition with a 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI bus. The Compact PCI board (cPCI) serves the purpose of the industrial applications. This particular form factor brings a high resistance to shocks and vibrations thanks to the rugged packaging and the high-density pin-and-socket connection to the PC. Besides, cPCI PCs offer many more slots - in the 33 MHz configuration up to height slots are available.

Serial control of cameras
The EureCard Grablink Expert 2 supports two Camera Link pseudo RS-232 serial lines. The application software can use the Camera Link API functions to control the camera. Alternatively, the serial lines can be configured as additional PC COM ports ensuring interoperability with existing camera control software.
Increased performances
The Grablink Expert 2 offers a high bandwidth allowing to transfer images from even more demanding cameras.
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.

camera connection GrabLink Expert:
number of cameras:	Monochrome Single-Tap	Monochrome Dual-Tap	RGB 3-tap	Monochrome 4-Tap	Monochrome 8-Tap
"Base" configuration	1 (8 to 16 Bit)	2 (8 to 12 Bit)	2 (8 Bit)
extended Base configuration*				2 (8 to 12 Bit)
Medium configuration			1 (10 to 12 Bit)	1 (8 to 12 Bit)
extended Medium- Konfiguration*					1 (8 to 12 Bit)
*taps multiplexed; preliminary

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