Euresys - Picolo

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The Euresys board Picolo Evolution is a very low-cost PCI capture board optimized for single camera applications. It supports the acquisition and the real-time transfer of full resolution color images or sequences of images to the PC memory. The Picolo Evolution captures one or two composite video signals and one S-Video signal. The square-pixel resolution (640 x 480 or 768 x 576) is achieved at full frame rate (30 or 25 fps).

The Picolo Evolution is the ideal capture board for cost-sensitive applications in the fields of machine vision, access control, x-ray inspection

From Euresys also available:

Analog frame grabber:

bullet Domino-Iota
bullet Domino-AlphaII
bullet Domino-Gamma

Digital frame grabber:

bullet Multi

CameraLink™ frame grabber:

bullet Grablink Value
bullet Grablink Expert

Low-cost standard frame grabber:

Picolo-series

For image processing and analysis look at the extraordinary tools suite bullet eVision.

Features:

competitive price
supports PAL, NTSC, SECAM, CCIR and RS-170-Video signals
equivalent to full image formats 640x480 and 768x576
Composite- and S-Video-Inputs
industrial connectors: BNC, DB-9 and S-Video
3 cameras inputs (Sub DB-9)
real-time aquisition
scalable image acquisition(up to 1:16)
4 TTL-I/O-lines; one line can be configured as an external acquisition trigger.
Supports Windows 98SE/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP and Linux
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.
per PC more than one card can be used

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