Dec 18 2008
DALSA Corporation (TSX: DSA), a global leader in machine vision technology, today announced it has expanded its line of Xcelera frame grabbers to address different camera interfaces, including analog, LVDS and Camera Link (CL). All of the new Xcelera frame grabbers are based on the PCI Express (PCIe) platform and are supported by DALSA's Sapera™ Essential software.
"Frame grabbers are no longer the only way to bring the image data in the host computer for processing," said Inder Kohli, product manager for DALSA. "However, they will continue to have an important role in machine vision applications for quite some time, as they evolve from a mere point of interface to a highly complex image processing engine. Without any dependency on the host CPU or the operating system, frame grabbers with real-time embedded processing capabilities will continue to offer predictable responses and present data in multiple formats to speed image processing applications."
Applications for the Xcelera series include: semiconductor and electronics; automotive; medical; food inspection; paper and lumber inspection; and packaging. DALSA's Xcelera series of frame grabbers continues to offer OEMs more flexibility, speed and value.
The expansion of the Xcelera series includes expanded support for new camera interfaces and a suite of compute intensive embedded real-time image processing functions on the CameraLink models.
Xcelera Models
The new Xcelera models feature the following:
- Xcelera CL PX4 SE model supports the full spectrum of CL cameras with more advanced processing functions, including:
- Real-time image processing functions i.e. Run Length Encoding (RLE), color space conversion for Bayer, RGB and CIELAB
- Multiple real-time switchable Look up Tables (LUTs) and shading correction configuration sets
- All supported under Windows XP & Vista 32, 64-bits
- Xcelera-LVDS PX4 supports parallel LVDS digital cameras for PCIe x4 platform
- Ideal for conventional digital output cameras
- All supported under Windows XP & Vista 32, 64-bits
- Xcelera-AN LX1 Quad is a high-performance analog frame grabber for the PCI Express x1 platform.
- Designed to deliver concurrent image acquisition from multiple independent standard and progressive scan analog cameras.
- All supported under Windows XP & Vista 32, 64-bits
Xcelera frame grabbers start at an OEM quantity price of $1,000 US. For full resolution photos of DALSA's Xcelera frame grabbers visit DALSA's media kit. For more product information about the new Xcelera models, visit the Frame Grabber section of our DALSA's site.