Kamera Werk Dresden CMOS, Manual

Page 1: ...Manual CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 CL Version 1 08 July 2004...

Page 2: ...THE PROFILE GLOBALS MENU 16 THE USER PROFILE PARAMETERS 17 The Region of Interest profile menu 17 The Trigger profile menu 18 The Switchport profile menu 19 The Sensor profile menu 21 The Output data...

Page 3: ...BLE 5 LIST OF REGISTER INITIAL VALUES OF FUNCTION GROUP CAMERA CONFIGURATION 32 TABLE 6 REGISTERS OF FUNCTION GROUP WORKING PARAMETERS 36 TABLE 7 REGISTERS OF FUNCTION GROUP LUT PROGRAMMING 37 Revisio...

Page 4: ...LOGLUX i5 CL CMOS industrial camera is excluded Liability in cases of intent and gross negligence remains unaffected therefrom In any case our liability is limited to the purchase price of the unit T...

Page 5: ...cific LUTs look up tables In the process the image data can be replaced by function values e g arithmetic operations By defining a greyscale threshold in a LUT for example the camera can be made to de...

Page 6: ...integration or exposure time the residual potential of the sensor cell can be measured and translated into a digital numerical value By several successive integrations of the sensor cell potential wi...

Page 7: ...bright pixels As compared with the first integration cycle slightly lower residual potentials are obtained for the dark pixels as a result of the second short integration time while the bright pixels...

Page 8: ...cceptable for image processing For this reason the rolling curtain shutter mode should where possible only be used for imaging objects that do not move or move slowly relative to the sensor line reado...

Page 9: ...data interfaces as used in industrial image processing In addition to the image data transmission from the camera to the host system it is also possible to control and configure the camera from the h...

Page 10: ...for desktop PC systems for reasons of the tougher use conditions more exclusive components may occasionally have to be chosen For configuring an IPC system just contact a systems house of your choice...

Page 11: ...apter to link the camera up with an optional triggering system e g the switching output of a light barrier in order to trigger the framegrabbing process in an event controlled mode The same plug conne...

Page 12: ...eters Professional users have full access to all relevant sensor functions at register level by using a terminal program which is an integral part of the LOGLUX LuxWare Moreover this form of configura...

Page 13: ...cameras connected to the respective ports the camera names are displayed the following should be noted Cameras plugged into RS 232 ports do not deliver a live image with the configuration tool Where a...

Page 14: ...installation directory of the program The left side displays the tree structure of the parameters of the selected LOGLUX i5 CL camera and the IP hardware used framegrabber or FireWire ports The param...

Page 15: ...ture updated immediately upon leaving the input field The camera name may have up to 32 digit positions The Baudrate option allows the communication speed to be set Once set the speed will be immediat...

Page 16: ...the user to initialize the selected profile with one of the factory set profiles It should be noted here that all settings of the chosen profile are overwritten This option is ideal for user specific...

Page 17: ...tance of ROI from left and width of the ROI are set in the Left and Width fields respectively The associated scroll bars can also be used for a coarse pre adjustment Only integer values may be set The...

Page 18: ...rnal signal applied to the trigger input of the camera Triggering is effected by the rising edge of the signal CameraLink CC1 The camera is triggered by an external signal sent from the CameraLink por...

Page 19: ...there is no controlled integration time available CameraLink CC2 A signal applied to the CameraLink port CC2 camera control 2 is assigned to the selected switchport For the generation of this signal s...

Page 20: ...integration times to choose from To this end the user highlights under Mode the desired conversion function to be approximated and enters the value of the base of the conversion function to be approxi...

Page 21: ...shutter modes i e synchronous shutter or rolling shutter can be selected under Shutter Under Amplification the user can set the amplification factor for the analog amplifier downstream of the sensor...

Page 22: ...ight 1 9 The image data are subtracted from the constant 1024 which results in an inversion of the image data Subsequently the image data are shifted to the right bit by bit by n bits Zeros are insert...

Page 23: ...d delivery the camera has no custom designed camera firmware inside If the camera has a custom designed camera firmware inside the listed additional functions can be configure by adjusting option entr...

Page 24: ...are displayed under Lookup table contents By clicking button Save the transferred LUT can be saved as a text file in the host system PC IPC Load A LUT text file in the host system is selected to be tr...

Page 25: ...licking the button opens the standard Windows dialog Play Macro whereupon the user may choose the desired LLM file A command sequence entered from the terminal is saved as macro Clicking the button op...

Page 26: ...be checked to make an update or back up copy of the camera firmware The user can update the MCU firmware by clicking Update in the MCU Firmware panel By clicking Update in the FPGA Firmware panel the...

Page 27: ...or version Under Grab image as the greyscale values of the grabbed frame can be choose between greyscale or bayer formated colour image datas Grab image as is only available with the LOGLUX i5 CL colo...

Page 28: ...rom register ADR ADR 0 FFFFFFFF d ADR Dump register Reads register bank as from register ADR e g from the first register of a function group ADR 0 100 200 see following description of the function gro...

Page 29: ...Address Format Description Value range Meaning Default CONFIG_SIGNATURE 00 no user access CONFIG_BAUDRATE 02 1 byte RS232 baud rate selection 12 1 115200 baud 9600 baud 1 CONFIG_EOLTYPE 03 1 byte Lin...

Page 30: ...of the four selectable camera sensor profiles the parameters being the pixel clock rate snapshot mode trigger rate trigger mode video mode look up table used region of interest integration time modes...

Page 31: ...port 1 150 232 signal time in ns PROFILE_XSTART 130 1 word ROI X start position 2 x x 0 638 X coordinate in pixel PROFILE_YSTART 132 1 word ROI Y start position 0 1022 Y coordinate in pixel PROFILE_WI...

Page 32: ...ILE_DESCRPTN 150 16F Profile description Single Integration Slope Dual Integration Slope Quadruple Integration Slope Table 5 List of register initial values of function group camera configuration PROF...

Page 33: ...ch results in an inversion of the image data Simultaneously the image data are shifted to the right bit by bit by n bits Zeros are inserted at the most significant bits MSB the lowest significant bits...

Page 34: ...ay at 66 MHz pixel clock rate Example w 11E 100000 Switchport 1 PLength 100 us PROFILE_XSTART The register specifies the start position left of the visible sensor frame The value must represent an eve...

Page 35: ...es the amplification factor of the analog amplifier downstream of the sensor The register value should not be changed for the following reasons The proper calibration of the camera is no longer guaran...

Page 36: ...4 write only PARAM_TEMP0 908 1 word Temperature sensor 0 218 398 Temperature in Kelvin read only PARAM_TEMP1 90A 1 word Temperature sensor 1 218 398 Temperature in Kelvin read only Table 6 Registers...

Page 37: ...ted to each of the possible 1024 greyscale values x of the sensor also a description of the respective LUT functions is contained in these register banks Prior to the word wise filling of the LUTx wit...

Page 38: ...mat with trapezoidal connector screen and two or three lines of male female contacts for external PC ports e g serial RS 232 interfaces ESD Electrostatic discharge ESD caused by electrostatic charging...

Page 39: ...terest to the user RS 232 Line standard for transmitting and receiving data via a serial interface based on the V 24 or V 28 standard SOC System on chip combination of large scale integrated function...

Page 40: ...without lens Lens mount C mount Weight approx 250g without lens Scope of delivery camera with LuxWare software and manual on CD ROM Pin assignments of the LOGLUX i5 CL The mechanical and electrical pa...

Page 41: ...of the switching voltage Notes on updating the firmware for the LOGLUX i5 CL camera General information As is the case with all consumer and industrial goods that allow their functions to be serviced...

Page 42: ...s For this reason it is advisable to check if a new version of the LOGLUX LuxWare software is available when for instance the MCU firmware is updated On the other hand an extension of the LOGLUX LuxWa...

Page 43: ...the contents of file LOGLUXi5CL_xxx bin with xxx standing for the current version in the user specific source directory must be transferred to the camera Select the Firmware profile menu Activate the...

Page 44: ...means of this option you have access to the terminal which is an integral part of the program and to the functions in a camera firmware update In order to avoid unintentional activation of the above m...

Page 45: ...hich are supported by the LuxWare configuration tool Other CameraLink framegrabbers may be used to configure the LOGLUX i5 CL camera by means of the INI file of the LuxWare configuration tool see Addi...

Page 46: ...COM port of the LOGLUX i5 CL camera For a very safe and very fast communication between the host system PC IPC and camera the serial COM port of the LOGLUX i5 CL camera is recommended to be used Howev...