MAY 4--Pleora Technologies (Ottawa, Canada) has announced a software mapping technology that cost-reduces, simplifies, and speeds the task of complying with the Automated Imaging Association's GigE Vision standard. The company's iPORT AutoGEV tool makes it fast and easy for camera makers and vision-system designers to gain compliance for any GigE camera or OEM system that uses iPORT GigE connectivity products. Moreover, AutoGEV will allow most existing Camera Link camera models to interoperate seamlessly in GigE Vision-compliant applications.
Camera vendors use iPORT AutoGEV to build a database that maps GigE Vision register read/write requests to existing serial camera control commands. AutoGEV uses this database to autogenerate the XML device description file that must be provided with compliant cameras. This XML file defines the relationship between camera features and the GigE Vision registers used to access and control compliant cameras.
Vendors then load the AutoGEV database and the XML file--if they choose to provide the XML file that way; they can also provide it as a Web download or on disk--into the camera's internal iPORT IP Engine or a standalone iPORT engine connected to the camera. After that, the iPORT engine performs all tasks required to ensure the camera complies with the standard. It provides the XML file, if available in the camera, to the GenICam module in the PC host, handles all commands to and from the camera, and delivers real-time communications over the GigE link in accordance with the GigE Vision Streaming Protocol and GigE Vision Control Protocol.
For more information, see www.pleora.com.
