Joint venture targets Camera Link

APRIL 8--Fastcom Technology SA (Lausanne, Switzerland; www.fastcom.de), a Swiss manufacturer of intelligent CMOS cameras, and Silicon Software GmbH (Mannheim, Germany; www.silicon-software.de) have joined forces to develop a Camera Link-based platform. Fastcom's iMVS camera series, with its high dynamic range of 120 dB, a transfer rate of up to 10 Mpixels/s, a spectral area of 400-1000 nm in combination with smart pixel access, and programmable signal processor, has been combined with Silicon Software's microEnable III frame grabber.

microEnable III is a 64-bit/66-MHz PCI frame grabber with a programmable image coprocessor on a FPGA, which is adaptable to Fastcom's iMVS camera series for real-time image processing. The application of 100-Mbyte integrated SDRAM memory prevents transfer shortages between camera and host PC. In addition, microEnable III enables the parallel operation of two Fastcom iMVS cameras operating with different parameters.