National Instruments IMAQ PXI-1428, User Manual

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Page 2: ...28 User Manual High Quality Camera Link Image Acquisition Device for PXI and PCI NI PXI PCI 1428 User Manual February 2007 372862E 01 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com ...

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Page 6: ...the software such as menu items and dialog box options Bold text also denotes parameter names italic Italic text denotes variables emphasis a cross reference or an introduction to a key concept Italic text also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word or value that you must supply monospace Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should enter from the keyboard sections of code p...

Page 7: ...the NI 1428 2 2 Base Configuration 2 2 Medium Configuration 2 2 Data Transmission 2 2 LUTs 2 3 Multiple Tap Data Formatter 2 3 SDRAM 2 3 Trigger Control and Mapping Circuitry 2 3 High Speed Timing 2 4 Acquisition and Region of Interest ROI 2 4 Scatter Gather DMA Controllers 2 4 Bus Master PCI Interface 2 4 Start Conditions 2 4 Acquisition Window Control 2 5 Serial Interface 2 5 Chapter 3 Signal Co...

Page 8: ...I PCI 1428 User Manual viii ni com Appendix A Cabling Appendix B Technical Support and Professional Services Glossary Index Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com ...

Page 9: ...mera Link Medium configuration For further configuration information refer to the Camera Link and the NI 1428 section of Chapter 2 Hardware Overview The VHDCI 68 pin connector has four external input output I O lines you can use as triggers or as high speed digital I O lines For more advanced digital or analog system triggering or digital I O lines you can use the NI 1428 and NI IMAQ with the Nati...

Page 10: ...nnector for both This standard ensures physical compatibility of devices bearing the Camera Link logo The basis for the Camera Link standard is the National Semiconductor Channel Link chipset a data transmission method consisting of a general purpose transmitter receiver pair The Channel Link driver takes 28 bits of parallel digital data and a clock and serializes the stream to four LVDS EIA 644 d...

Page 11: ...e interface path between the NI 1428 and LabVIEW LabWindows CVI or a text based programming environment The NI IMAQ software kit includes a series of libraries for image acquisition for LabVIEW LabWindows CVI and Measurement Studio which contains libraries for Microsoft Visual Basic NI IMAQ features both high level and low level functions Examples of high level functions include the sequences to a...

Page 12: ...dule you can acquire display and store images as well as perform image analysis and processing Using the Vision Development Module imaging novices and experts can program the most basic or complicated image applications without knowledge of particular algorithm implementations NI Vision Assistant is included with the Vision Development Module Vision Assistant is an interactive prototyping tool for...

Page 13: ...on devices and National Instruments DAQ products Vision and Motion Use National Instruments high performance stepper and servo motion control products with pattern matching software in inspection and guidance applications such as locating alignment markers on semiconductor wafers guiding robotic arms inspecting the quality of manufactured parts and locating cells Artisan Technology Group Quality I...

Page 14: ... key functional components of the NI 1428 Figure 2 1 NI 1428 Block Diagram Data 26 Pin MDR Connector Channel Link Receiver Enables Pixel Clock Camera Control UART PCI PXI Bus PCI PXI Interface and Scatter Gather DMA Controllers Data IMAQ SDRAM Interface Synchronous Dynamic RAM Advanced Timing Acquisition ROI and Triggering External Triggers Pixel Clock and Camera Enables RTSI Bus LUT LUT Data Data...

Page 15: ... 3 taps channels 10 bit 1 and 2 taps 12 bit 1 and 2 taps 14 bit 1 tap 16 bit 1 tap 24 bit RGB Medium Configuration The NI 1428 supports the 8 bit 4 tap of the Camera Link Medium configuration The Medium configuration requires using both connectors This configuration allows for more data throughput by offering two synchronized data streams between the camera and the NI 1428 Data Transmission A 28 t...

Page 16: ... right or right to left and top to bottom or bottom to top Note For your convenience data reformatting instructions for these cameras have been preprogrammed into the camera files SDRAM The NI PXI 1428 has 32 MB of onboard high speed synchronous dynamic RAM SDRAM The NI PCI 1428 has 16 MB of SDRAM The NI 1428 uses the onboard RAM as a FIFO buffer to ensure a complete acquisition Even when the data...

Page 17: ...system memory Note You can use MAX to set the acquisition and ROI parameters Scatter Gather DMA Controllers The NI 1428 uses three independent onboard direct memory access DMA controllers The DMA controllers transfer data between the onboard SDRAM memory buffers and the PCI bus Each of these controllers supports scatter gather DMA which allows the DMA controller to reconfigure on the fly The NI 14...

Page 18: ...e horizontal or line enable signal from the camera The active line region selects the starting line and number of lines to be acquired relative to the assertion edge of the vertical or frame enable signal Region of interest The NI 1428 uses a second level of active pixel and active line regions for selecting a region of interest Using the region of interest circuitry the device acquires only a sel...

Page 19: ...Q Serial Read VIs Go to LabVIEW vi lib vision driver imaqll llb to access these files C Use the serial interface programmatically through calls to the NI IMAQ driver using imgSessionSerialWrite and imgSessionSerialRead Note clsercon exe IMAQ Serial Write IMAQ Serial Read imgSessionSerialWrite and imgSessionSerialRead are used for directly accessing the NI 1428 serial port and are not required for ...

Page 20: ...VHDCI connector on the NI 1428 device Connectors Figure 3 1 shows the connectors on the NI 1428 device Figure 3 1 NI 1428 Connectors 1 MDR 26 Pin Connector 2 68 Pin VHDCI Connector TRIGGERS CAMERA LINK NI PXI 1428 Image Acquisition TRIGGERS CAMERA LINK 2 1 2 1 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com ...

Page 21: ...nments 68 Pin VHDCI Connector The 68 pin VHDCI connector connects to external digital I O lines triggers and medium configuration 8 bit 4 mode To access these connections build a custom cable or use an optional cable from National Instruments For information about building a custom cable for the 68 pin VHDCI connector refer to the Camera Link Cables section of Appendix A Cabling Figure 3 3 shows t...

Page 22: ...SERVED DGND DGND RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED DGND DGND RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED DGND DGND DGND DGND CHASSIS_GND RESERVED DGND RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED DGND Y 0 Y 0 Y 1 Y 1 Y 2 Y 2 YCLK YCLK Y 3 Y 3 RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED TTL_TRIG 0...

Page 23: ...data and enable signals from the camera to the acquisition device XCLK Transmission clock on the Base configuration chip for Camera Link communication between the acquisition device and the camera YCLK Transmission clock on the Medium configuration chip for Camera Link communication between the acquisition device and the camera SerTC Serial transmission to the camera from the image acquisition dev...

Page 24: ...t use twisted pairs for each signal If you are using the Camera Link Medium Configuration Trigger Cable for NI 1428 part number 190936 01 refer to Figure B 1 for the MDR 26 pin medium configuration Camera Link connector pinout Refer to Figure B 2 for the 25 pin D SUB trigger connector pinout Note Refer to the following connector pinouts only if you are using the Camera Link Medium Configuration Tr...

Page 25: ...LK CL_Y 2 CL_Y 1 CL_Y 0 GND GND RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED CL_Y 3 CL_YCLK CL_Y 2 CL_Y 1 CL_Y 0 GND 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 GND GND RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED TTL_TRIG 3 TTL_TRIG 2 TTL_TRIG 1 RESERVED TTL_TRIG 0 RESERVED RESERVED RESERV...

Page 26: ...Link cable Building your own cable is not recommended due to the high speed signaling on the Camera Link interface For more information on Camera Link cables refer to the Specifications of the Camera Link Interface Standard for Digital Cameras and Frame Grabbers manual This manual is available on several Web sites including the Automated Imaging Association site at www machinevisiononline org Figu...

Page 27: ...e at ni com catalog Camera Link cables are available in 1 to 10 m lengths from the 3M Web site at www 3m com Refer to Figure A 4 for 3M part number information Figure A 4 3M Part Number Ordering Information 14X26 SZLB XXX 0LC Length 100 1 meter 200 2 meters 300 3 meters 450 4 5 meters 500 5 meters 700 7 meters A00 10 meters Shell Retention Options B Thumbscrew shell kit T Thumbscrew overmold shell...

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Page 30: ...s controlled and defined by software ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit A proprietary semiconductor component designed and manufactured to perform a set of specific functions for specific customer needs B buffer Temporary storage for acquired data bus A group of conductors that interconnect individual circuitry in a computer such as the PCI bus typically the expansion vehicle to which I ...

Page 31: ...re that controls a specific hardware device such as an image acquisition board F FIFO First in first out memory buffer The first data stored is the first data sent to the acceptor FIFOs are used on image acquisition devices to temporarily store incoming data until that data can be retrieved I I O Input output The transfer of data to from a computer system involving communications channels operator...

Page 32: ... detected by a measurement system Resolution can be expressed in bits in proportions or in percent of full scale For example a system has 12 bit resolution one part in 4 096 resolution and 0 0244 percent of full scale RGB Color encoding scheme using red green and blue RGB color information where each pixel in the color image is encoded using 32 bits eight bits for red eight bits for green eight bi...

Page 33: ...ome form of data capture trigger control and mapping circuitry Circuitry that routes monitors and drives external and RTSI bus trigger lines You can configure each of these lines to start or stop acquisition on a rising or falling edge TTL Transistor transistor logic V VI Virtual Instrument 1 A combination of hardware and or software elements typically used with a PC that has the functionality of ...

Page 34: ...cabling description A 3 ordering information A 4 Medium configuration 2 2 overview 1 2 CC 4 1 signal table 3 4 CHASSIS_GND signal table 3 4 clock signals XCLK signal table 3 4 YCLK signal table 3 4 configuration Camera Link Base configuration 2 2 Medium configuration 2 2 connectors 68 pin VHDCI connector 3 3 I O connector signals table 3 4 MDR 26 pin connector figure 3 2 NI 1428 connectors figure ...

Page 35: ...ledgeBase B 1 L LabVIEW Vision Builder AI 1 4 LUTs lookup tables 2 3 M mapping circuitry 2 3 MDR 26 pin connector 3 2 Medium configuration Camera Link 2 2 motion control integrating with 1 5 multiple tap data formatter 2 3 N National Instruments application software 1 3 support and services B 1 NI 1428 Camera Link 1 2 software programming choices 1 2 integration with DAQ 1 5 National Instruments a...

Page 36: ...Inspection 1 3 Vision Development Module 1 4 software Vision Development Module 1 4 start conditions delayed acquisition 2 5 software control 2 4 trigger control 2 5 support technical B 1 T technical support B 1 timing circuitry high speed 2 4 training and certification NI resources B 1 trigger control and mapping circuitry 2 3 trigger controlled start conditions 2 5 troubleshooting NI resources B...

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