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Alvium USB Cameras User Guide V3.6.4
Document history and conventions
Terms and acronyms
Term or
acronym
Description
Reference
bare
board
Camera consisting of electronics and
sensor on a common printed circuit board
(PCB), to be designed into a housing with
heat sink and lens mount
CRA
Chief ray angle
EMVA
European Machine Vision Association
ERS
Electronic rolling shutter, see RS
Shutter types affecting image readout on page
ESD
Electrostatic discharge
FCC
Federal Communications Commission
FPNC
Pixed pattern noise correction
fps
Frames per second
GenICam
Generic Interface for Cameras, EMVA
GND
Ground (power)
GPIOs
General purpose inputs and outputs
(non-isolated)
GRRS
Global reset release shutter, see GRS
Shutter types affecting image readout
GRS
Global reset shutter, see GRRS
Shutter types affecting image readout
GS
Global shutter
Shutter types affecting image readout on page
H × V
Horizontal × Vertical (sensor resolution)
KB
Kilobyte
MBps
Megabytes per second
open
housing
Camera housing that is open at the back
side to be designed into an encompassing
housing with other components
PCBA
Printed circuit board assembly
QE
Quantum efficiency
ROI
Region of interest
RS
Rolling shutter, see ERS
Shutter types affecting image readout on page
SFNC
Standard Features Naming Convention
(GenICam)
Table 5: Terms and acronyms (sheet 1 of 2)