Adimec Q-8V100, Manual

Page 1: ...2012 03 29 Manual Q 8V100 and S 25A30 Rev 0 1 preliminary 1 Manual Rev 0 1 Q 8V100 S 25A30 Q 8V100m Q 8V100c S 25A30m S 25A30c ...

Page 2: ...roach Adimec s solutions add crucial competitive value to our customers high end systems and their applications as they yield brilliant results to the users of those systems The Netherlands based holding company has business offices in Europe the United States Japan and Singapore For more detailed information about Adimec and our products you can visit our website www adimec com or you can contact...

Page 3: ...or 11 4 Functional Characteristics 12 4 1 Overview 12 4 2 Frame rates 12 5 Control of the camera 13 5 1 Communication protocol 13 5 1 1 Data link settings 13 5 1 2 Data flow characters 13 5 1 3 Message Format 13 5 1 4 Message acknowledgement 14 5 1 5 Reply messages 14 5 1 6 Communication timing 14 5 1 7 Host system requirements 14 5 2 Camera Link interface standard 14 5 2 1 Overview 15 5 2 2 Mecha...

Page 4: ...matting 22 6 6 1 Black level and offset 22 6 6 2 Digital fine gain 22 6 6 3 White balance color only 23 6 6 4 Output look up table 23 6 7 Output format and Camera Link settings 23 6 7 1 Region of interest 23 6 7 2 Camera link settings taps and Lval gap 24 6 7 3 Camera Link clock 24 6 8 Service and Maintenance 24 6 8 1 Built in test 24 6 8 2 Error diagnosis 25 6 8 3 Cross hairs and test pattern 25 ...

Page 5: ... and Frame Grabbers Version 1 1 January 2004 1 4 Liability Adimec puts in a lot of effort in preparing this manual Please inform your Adimec Business Office of any inaccuracies or omissions Adimec Advanced Image Systems B V cannot be held responsible for any technical or typographical errors and reserves the right to make changes to the product and manuals without prior notice Adimec Advanced Imag...

Page 6: ...stems B V PO Box 7909 Luchthavenweg 91 5605 SH Eindhoven 5657 EA Eindhoven The Netherlands The Netherlands Tel 31 40 2353920 Fax 31 40 2353905 URL www adimec com Publication number xxxxxx Q 8V100_S 25A30 rev 0 1 Copyright 2011 Adimec Advanced Image Systems B V Eindhoven The Netherlands ...

Page 7: ...ng instructions in the literature accompanying the instrument 2 2 Handling 2 2 1 General In order to prevent damage to the camera and to keep the CMOS sensor clean please take the following precautions Always keep the sensor cap in place as long as no lens is attached Remove the lens cap just before the lens is screwed on the camera It is advised to perform this operation in a clean room or clean ...

Page 8: ...ead of the lensmount because this may cause contamination on the CMOS sensor due to loose particles and traces of oil or grease If this step does not result in an acceptable result continue with step 2 2 Remove the lensmount by unscrewing the 4 crosshead screws that hold the lensmount 3 Clean the inner screw thread of the lensmount using Alcohol or Hexane and a Q tip 4 Clean the CMOS sensor cover ...

Page 9: ... 1 A For safety peripheral equipment must either be double isolated or SELV qualified 2 2 7 Mounting Mechanical Connectors Take care during handling of the camera The Camera Link connector and the power connector should not be damaged The maximum tightening torque for the Camera Link connector may not exceed 0 26 Nm Prevent the entry of foreign objects or dirt into the connectors as this will resu...

Page 10: ... I O connector An input for external triggering of the camera as well as control of an external flash light is available at the I O connector The input and output are fully programmable For reference see paragraph TBD The input and output are galvanic isolated from the internal camera electronics by means of an optocoupler Vishay type SFH6156 2 Connector type Hirose type HR10A 7R 4PB 74 Mating con...

Page 11: ...e camera to a frame grabber in order to transfer video to the grabber as well as control data from the grabber to the camera The maximum cable length is 10 meter for a 85MHz interface however 5 meter is recommended For a description of the Camera Link interface please refer to the Camera Link specification NOTE PoCL Power over Camera Link is not supported When connecting the camera to a PoCLcompli...

Page 12: ...e service and GPIO functionality The communication protocol and structure is described in Chapter 5 the commands for specific functionality are treated in Chapter 6 4 2 Frame rates The maximum speed of the camera at 8Mp ROI resolution is indicated in the table below Type H pix V pix CL taps CL f MHz Max fps Q 8V100 3320 2490 8 85 80 Q 8V100 3320 2490 10 85 100 Besides the number of CL taps the spe...

Page 13: ...ulting data are transferred between the host system and the camera by means of a communication protocol The host system is the master in the communication link All actions are initiated by the host system The camera only replies to a message received from the host system 5 1 1 Data link settings The data link set tings that shall be used for communication with the camera are Baud rate 57600 baud s...

Page 14: ...st system requirements After transmitting a message to the camera the host system must wait for the camera to reply with an ACK or NAK character To prevent lock up the wait time for the response must be limited by a timeout period After not receiving an ACK or NAK character after the time out period has elapsed the host system must consider the transmitted message as not being received The time ou...

Page 15: ...upport for binary or text based data transfers Common API across vendors Common error codes across vendors Common error text across vendors Strict well defined behavior of all functions in specification Openness to vendor specific error codes and text Ability to enumerate ports on sytem Inquireable adjustable baud rate for ports Win 32 support open source for port to other platforms C C support th...

Page 16: ...rial dll will manage passing the application calls to the appropriate dll for the application specified port Further details can be found in the Camera Link Specification of Camera Link Interface Standard for Digital Cameras and Frame Grabbers Version 1 1 January 2004 5 3 Camera Link ports assignment Only Camera Link full configuration is available in this camera in 8 or 10 taps The format is hori...

Page 17: ...x SN Return message yyyyyy Where yyyyyy is again the serial number Furthermore the camera link Build State can be queried by Command Syntax BS Return message x xx y yy z zz x xx is the camera issue y yy is the micro controller firmware version z zz is the FPGA firmware version 6 1 1 Internal temperature Command Syntax TM The internal temperature is returned in units of 10 C 6 2 Camera configuratio...

Page 18: ...ame period equals the integration time 3 Timed Trigger control mode Camera is slave start of integration determined by start of trigger either Camera Link CC pulse or external trigger Integration time configurable by command 6 3 1 Frame Period In Continuous mode MO0 the frame period is configurable by Command Syntax FPx FP x is the frame period in units of 1 μs ranging to 100 000 maximum The minim...

Page 19: ...al on the I O connector The strobe can be switched on or off by means of the FSE command Command Syntax FSEx FSE With x 0 the flash strobe is disabled with x 1 it is enabled 6 4 1 Flash strobe polarity The active state of the strobe output can be inverted to adapt to the application requirements Command Syntax FSPx FSP where x 1 for the normal polarity in this polarity configuration the photo tran...

Page 20: ...obe active state Both x and y are in units of 1 µs and range from 0 to 100 000 Both are without the additional intrinsic response delay of the flash strobe which is mentioned in section 3 1 1 6 5 Defect pixel correction A defect correction is available that replaces a defect pixel by a weighted average of those its 4 adjacent pixels that are not defect The neighbors are labeled N S E and W in figu...

Page 21: ...oval of defect pixels The camera has a defect pixel map capacity of 1024 pixels The defect pixels at the time of camera production are stored as the factory default set Users can add defect pixels to the list by Command Syntax DPx y DP n Where x and y are the origin 1 1 base coordinates of the defect pixel The sytax DP n returns the position of the n th defect pixel in the list DP 0 returns the nu...

Page 22: ...ct pixels as white in black image 6 6 Image data formatting 6 6 1 Black level and offset In monochrome cameras the black level is changed by Command Syntax BLx BL Here x is the black level from 0 to 1023 defined in 10 bits In color cameras instead of the black level the offset is configurable Command Syntax OFSx OFS Here x is the offset from 0 to 1023 defined in 10 bits The difference between blac...

Page 23: ...ands Command Syntax OLUTBGN OLUTx0 OLUTx1 OLUTx1023 OLUTEND x0 to x1023 are the values of the OLUT each ranging from 0 to 1023 If not 1024 OLUT values are entered the OLUT will not be programmed Down scaling to 8 bit output is done after the OLUT stage An OLUT value can be queried by the command OLUT i with i the index 6 7 Output format and Camera Link settings 6 7 1 Region of interest Within the ...

Page 24: ...ges from 2 to 1023 In both 8 and 10 tap the output is interleaved The output resolution is always 8 bit The Fval gap is also configurable Command Syntax FVALGAPx FVALGAP Here x ranges from 2 to 1023 6 7 3 Camera Link clock Command Syntax CLCx CLC x is the Camera Link pixel clock frequency x 0 66 MHz x 1 85 MHz 6 8 Service and Maintenance 6 8 1 Built in test The built in test function BIT verifies ...

Page 25: ...ast received command not enough parameters 7 One or more of the command parameters for the last received command is out of range 8 Last received command internal Adimec error 100 Loading of settings from non volatile memory failed 101 Storing of settings to non volatile memory failed 102 The defect pixel correction data can t be stored because the defect pixel list is full 103 The defect pixel cor...

Page 26: ...teps of 16 The remaining surface is 0 black For color cameras color patches are present on the side The test image is processed by the same video processing as the normal sensor video 255 511 767 1023 1279 1335 1791 2047 2303 2559 2815 3071 3327 3583 3839 4095 255 511 767 1023 1279 1335 1791 2047 2303 2559 2815 3071 3327 3583 3839 4095 Gray scale 512 0 63 64 127 1920 1983 1984 2047 2048 2111 2112 ...

Page 27: ...by command Command Syntax FCR The frame counter can be read out at any time by Command Syntax FCNR Also the frame counter can be tagged onto the output image by the overlay command Command Syntax OVLx OVL x 0 disables image tagging x 1 enables image tagging Tagging replaces the top left pixels of the output image by the image count data The insertion position of tag data is fixed and independent f...