Products

Teledyne Xtium2 Frame Grabber

Teledyne DALSA announced its Xtium™2-XGV PX8, a GigE Vision® compatible image acquisition board that features a real-time depacketization engine to convert GigE Vision image packets into ready-to-use images. It also has a hardware-assisted packet resend logic that improves the reliability of image transfers while reducing the CPU overhead. Xtium2-XGV PX8 targets image acquisition from single or multiple independent 10, 5, 2.5, or 1GigE Vision area scan cameras, line scan cameras, and 3D profile sensors.

Building on the field-proven technology and performance of Teledyne DALSA’s Xtium2 family of image acquisition boards, the new Xtium2-XGV PX8 is a half-length multi-port 10GigE frame grabber for PCI Express™ Gen 3.0 x8 platforms. It can support up to 32 cameras in a variety of different link-speeds and scanning configurations. Available in a four or two port SFP+ configurations, the Xtium2-XGV PX8 can sustain aggregate input bandwidth of 4 GByte/s (4x10 Gb/s) and up to 6.8 GBytes/sec output bandwidth to the host memory. It can also perform a variety of on-board format conversions like Bayer to RGB, Bi-colour to RGB, etc. before sending the images to the host computer.

For a more reliable GigE vision system, Xtium2-XGV supports hardware assisted packet resend and action command for external event synchronization. It is also capable of transmitting/re-transmitting IEEE-1588 messages without requiring an external switch.

Xtium2-XGV supports Sapera™ LT and Teledyne FLIR® IIS’ Spinnaker SDKs.

Teledyne DALSA
www.teledynedalsa.com/imaging

UR+ Certification for Smart Vision Lights’ DoAll Multifunctional Light

Smart Vision Lights (SVL) announces that its DoAll multifunctional light — which comprises six different machine vision lights — has received UR+ certification from Universal Robots. 

UR+ offers systems integrators and end users an ecosystem of certified products designed specifically for use with Universal Robots’ collaborative robots, or cobots. All UR+ certified products undergo rigorous testing to validate compatibility with UR cobots. With UR+ certification, the DoAll is programmable through the included DoAll Light Manager, which is now available directly on the robot’s teach pendant. 

The DoAll combines six machine vision lights into one multifunctional solution and is mounted at the end of a robotic arm. By combining a dome light, low-angle dark field ring light, mid-angle dark field ring light, RGBW ring light, four-quadrant ring light, and NIR ring light, the DoAll delivers a nearly limitless combination of lighting options, making it ideal for performing multiple inspections where optimal lighting configurations differ by inspection type. In addition, the DoAll addresses the growing need for flexibility and ease of use in today’s automation systems. 

In addition, the DoAll light can be deployed for applications involving specialized lighting implementations, including multispectral imaging. In that case, the light can be deployed alongside a grayscale camera and can leverage its RGBW, NIR, and UV wavelength capabilities to capture images beyond the visible wavelength. With a four-zone multi-drive LED driver, the DoAll light can also be used in photometric stereo imaging applications, which require the capture of multiple images from different illumination angles to extract features whose height varies from that of surrounding surfaces. Such applications include reading raised letters on tires for identification purposes.

Smart Vision Lights
www.SmartVisionLights.com

Emergent Vision Technologies Eros 5GigE Camera Series

Emergent Vision Technologies announces the launch of the Eros camera series, which will support 5GigE, 2.5GigE and 1GigE speeds through auto-negotiation. 

Eros cameras will feature many of the latest Sony Pregius CMOS image sensors offered in Emergent’s 10GigE and 25GigE cameras, but in lower speed, lower cost, and smaller-sized camera options. At the same time, the cameras will still support Emergent’s zero-copy imaging approach, which refers to the use of built-in header splitting features in network interface cards (NICs) to perform zero-copy image transfer. Eros cameras, according to John Ilett, president and CTO of Emergent Vision Technologies, address the gap that exists in the market today when it comes to zero-copy imaging, which is a must-have requirement for achieving top performance in lower speed multi-camera configurations today.

For applications where imaging beyond the visible is necessary, such as food and beverage inspection, agricultural imaging, or semiconductor and electronics inspection, Eros cameras will offer models based on Sony’s SenSWIR CMOS image sensors, which are designed to capture images in the SWIR range (400 to 1700 nm), which is beyond the capabilities of standard RGB sensors. With Sony’s new sensors, Eros cameras will be able to detect materials and substances invisible to the naked eye, opening a plethora of imaging possibilities in various fields. The following SWIR models will be available in 2024: HE-300-S-I (0.33MP IMX991, 260fps), HE-1300-S-I (1.31MP Sony IMX990, 135fps), HE-3200-S-I (3.14MP Sony IMX993, 170fps), and the HE-5300-S-I (5.24MP Sony IMX992, 130fps). 

For applications where inspecting shiny or reflective surfaces is necessary, the Eros series also features a polarized camera option based on the 5MP Sony IMX250MZR (mono) and IMX250MYR (color) Polarsens CMOS sensor. Polarsens CMOS sensors feature tiny wire-grid polarizers over every lens and have 0°, 45°, 90°, and 135° polarization angles in four-pixel groups that equate to one pixel of output. These sensors can separate reflected and transmitted scenes, which proves useful in detecting surface defects like dirt, bumps, dips, scratches, and bends when inspecting shiny objects. 

Emergent Vision Technologies
www.emergentvisiontec.com