Phoenix-DIG24CL-PCI32 Active Silicon PCI Digital Frame Grabber

The Active Silicon Phoenix-DIG24CL Series PCI Digital Frame Grabber is a PCI board for the acquisition of digital data from a variety of Camera Link sources, including digital frame capture and line scan cameras. It supports all the formats of Base configuration, i.e. single 8 to 16 bit data, through 8 bit RGB, to dual tap 12 bit sources.

The Phoenix-DIG24CL Series also supports various camera tap formats, such as line interlaced - adjacent lines are output simultaneously; line offset - lines are output from different parts of the CCD simultaneously; pixel interlaced - adjacent pixels on the same line are output simultaneously; and pixel offset - pixels are output from different parts of the same line simultaneously.

ROI and sub-sampling controls are used to increase application processing speed by only storing the required data. In addition the LUT functionality provides support for gamma correction, dynamic range cropping and binary thresh-holding in real time. The DataMapper further reduces the load on the host processor by mapping and packing the acquired data prior to transfer across the PCI bus. For example, the acquired data can be mapped into a suitable format and transferred directly to the graphics display, without the need for any host processing.