HawkEye-CL PCIe Frame Grabber Family
Camera Link Image Acquisitions Boards

■ Acquisition rate up to 50 Gb/s
■ Supports Camera Link 2.0, including Base, Medium, Full and 80-bit (Deca)
■ Support for Power over Camera Link (PoCL)
■ Acquisition from Line and Area scan cameras
■ Supported by user-friendly GUI application, API suite, and VHDL/ Verilog templates
■ PCIe low-profile form factor
■ GPIOs for camera synchronization and peripheral connectivity
■ On-board DDR4 memories
■ PCIe x8, Gen. 3 host interface for up to 64 Gb/s
■ Based on Altera Arria 10 FPGAs
■ Option to connect to remote cameras (up to 40 Km), via Gidel's remote fiber optic system
■ Options for high-end Frame Grabber customization according to user's camera specifications
■ Option for system integration by Gidel
 

OVERVIEW

The Gidel HawkEye Frame Grabbers are high-performance, cost-effective, off-the-shelf solutions enabling entry-level on-board image processing the option to evolve to Gidel's high-end processing boards. The Frame Grabbers are supported by a user-friendly GUI application as well as API library for developing a customized application.

1.Grabbing Capabilities: 

■ Up to 2 × 850MB/s acquisition
■ Supports Camera Link Base, Medium, Full and 80-bit (Deca) configurations
■ Up to 16 GB of DDR4
■ Multi-operation modes:
   ◦ Conventional grabbing modes (preset scheme).
   ◦ Selective ROI grabbing using on-the-fly requests from user application.
■ Automatic partitioning of line scan (and large Area scan) camera input into frames, with a frame overlapping option.

    Frames may be grabbed in reference to global coordinates enabling easy comparison with reference image.

2. Application and development tools support:

■ Frame grabbing GUI application
■ API suite for user customized application
■ Support for GenICam standard allowing camera configuration

 
Gidel also offers complete integration service according to customer's specifications.
 

 
SPECIFICATION

■ Up to 50 Gb/s acquisition rate.
■ PCIe x8 Gen. 3 for peak throughput of 64 Gb/s.
■ MTBF > million hours.
■ Support for PoCL Camera Link 2.0 Base, Medium, Full and 80-bit configurations or dual base configuration.
■ Support for for remote cameras over fiber optics (HawkEye-RFG) using Gidel's remote fiber optics module. Standard

    transmission distance is up to 2 Km with an option for up to 40Km.
■ Support for Line scan and Area scan cameras.
■ RS422, opto-coupler, LVTTL and 30V at 0.9A IOs for optimized system connectivity allowing, for example, synchronizing

    cameras.
■ Multi-operation modes:
   ◦ Conventional grabbing modes (preset scheme).
   ◦ Selective ROIs. All images are stored in grabber and the user selects the ROIs to transfer to the Host. This can be

     used in response to on-the-fly, first phase FPGA Vision scanning, or to manual operator(s) command.
■ Automatic partitioning of line scan (and large area scan) camera input into frames with frame overlapping simplifying

    image processing by eliminating the need for adjacent frames.
■ Low power - starting at less than 10W.
■ Form factor: PCIe low-profile.
■ Support for GenICam Interface.

 
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Camera Link Frame Grabber System Example:

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