The Cyton Family
CoaXPress (CXP) is a simple, yet powerful, standard for moving high speed serial data from a camera to a frame grabber. Video is captured at speeds of up to 6.25 Gigabits/Second (Gb/S). Simultaneously, control commands and triggers can be sent to the camera 20 Mb/S (with a trigger accuracy of +/- 2 nanoseconds). Up to 13 W of power can also supplied to the camera. All this happens over a single piece of industry standard 75 Ohm coaxial cable. Multiple CXP links can be aggregated to support higher data rates (e.g. four links provide 25 Gb/S of data).
The CXP standard opens the door to applications where cable cost, routing requirements and long distances have prevented the move to high resolution, high speed digital cameras. In many cases, existing coaxial infrastructure can be repurposed for CXP with very low installation costs.
The Cyton Features
§ Half-Size x8 PCI Gen 2.0 Express Board
§ CoaXPress 1.1 compliant (supports 1.0 and 1.1. cameras)
§ Supports one to four CXP-6 cameras
§ Supports multi-link CXP-6 cameras (up to four CXP links)
§ Supports CXP speeds from 1.250 to 6.250 Gb/S
§ Supports simultaneous capture from four 6.250 Gb/S CXP links
§ Provides one CXP-6 uplink to the camera (bulk data uploads, zero latency triggers)
§ Low speed uplink also supported on all links
§ Uses DIN 1.0/2.3 connectors
§ Uses CXP standard 4+1 connector spacing
§ Provides power for all cameras (up to 13 Watts per link)
§ Provides Safe Power, full protection from all power line faults
§ Cameras are Plug and Play with automatic link speed detection
§ Cable lengths of up to 135 meters are supported
§ Cameras can be accurately synchronized, or can be completely independent
§ PCI Express x8 Gen 2.0 interface (also works in x16 slots)
§ Compatible with PCI Express Gen 1.0 slots
§ Separate I/O for each camera
§ Highly deterministic, low latency frame grabber to camera trigger
§ Supports simultaneous communications to all cameras
§ Windows "sees" a separate frame grabber for each camera
§ FlowThru technology means no on-board memory is needed
§ StreamSync acquisition engine optimizes synchronization between acquisition and DMA
§ StreamSync buffer manager maximize DMA channel efficiency
§ Acquire variable length frames from line scan cameras
§ Acquire image sequences well beyond the 4GB barrier
§ No frame rate limit
§ Triggers and encoders for external control of acquisition
§ Programmable signal generator for camera control (independent for each camera)
§ Quadrature encoder support including sophisticated triggering schemes
§ Encoder divider/multiplier
§ Drivers, utilities and examples for Windows and Linux
§ Supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms
§ Drivers for most 3rd party processing environments (e.g. HALCON, LabView, VisionPro, MATLAB, etc.)
§ Full GenICam support for control and capture
§ All models are "half size" PCIe cards
§ RoHS compliant