Thursday, 30 December 2010

First CoaXPress Frame Grabber



World’s First CoaXPress Frame Grabber!
The Phoenix-CXP PC card is the first frame grabber from Active Silicon to support the emerging CoaXPress digital video standard. It provides video acquisition from two channels at 3.125 Gbps (“CXP Base”) or a single channel at 6.25 Gbps (“CXP Full”) whilst simultaneously providing a 20 Mbit/sec uplink as well as 13W of power to the camera – and all down a single coax cable!

CoaXPress (or “CXP”) is a revolutionary new digital video interface standard capable of sending video, control and power and high speeds over conventional coax cable – at distances of over 100m. It combines the elegant simplicity of coax cable with state of the art high speed serial data technology. It is also scaleable over multiple coax cables to provide speeds in multiples of 6.25 Gbps.

CoaXPress Vision Award 2009


CoaXPress wins the Vision Award 2009

The CoaXPress Consortium, of which Active Silicon is a member, has won the 2009 Vision Award for its innovative digital video interface technology.

CoaXPress is a revolutionary new digital video interface standard capable of sending high speed video at up to 6.25Gbps, along with control and power over a single conventional 75 Ohm coax cable – at distances of over 100m. It combines the elegant simplicity of coax cable with state of the art high speed serial data technology. It is also scaleable over multiple coax cables which provides a future-proofed solution suitable for high speed video systems of today and well in the future.

The award, sponsored by Imaging and Machine Vision Europe, was presented to members of the consortium at a prize-giving ceremony at the machine vision trade fair VISION 2009 in Stuttgart on 3 November.

Wednesday, 19 September 2007


Active Silicon expands its PCI Express range of frame grabbers.

Active Silicon has extended its range of high-performance frame grabbers with the introduction of the Phoenix D36-PE1 LVDS board. This new addition expands the current range of PCI Express boards on offer which currently includes Camera Link and standard analog video products. The D36-PE1 is based on the current Phoenix LVDS board already available in PCI/PCI-X formats and supports capture from up to 36-bits of parallel LVDS data. The comprehensive Software Developers Kit supports applications not only under Windows but also most other operating systems. An extensive range of built-in third-party image analysis software drivers will further shorten development times.

Friday, 24 August 2007

Power over Camera Link (PoCL) available on Phoenix digital frame grabbers.

Like most other high technology markets the imaging industry is always increasing the demands it makes on the equipment it uses. The Camera Link interface replaced the non-standardized LVDS interface and now many imaging applications benefit from its ease of use, high performance and standardization. However, progress is still demanded and the Camera Link standard (managed by AIA) is always adapting to meet the needs of its users. The ability to provide power to the camera is one such requirement.

Active Silicon has directly worked on the development of PoCL as a member of the Camera Link committee. The result is that PoCL is a viable solution to the problem of adding power to the current interface but still maintaining backwards compatibility with the current standard. It provides 4W at 12V which is enough to power new PoCL cameras such as the G21V31 from CIS Corporation and the CleverDragon series from Toshiba Teli Corporation.

Wednesday, 25 July 2007

ETX - Rugged Vision System

Extremely rugged embedded vision systems from Active Silicon use the ETX form factor

Active Silicon has broadened the market for rugged and embedded vision systems with the launch of a new product based on the ETX form factor from Kontron. This feature rich card has two simultaneous PAL/NTSC/CCIR/RS-170 video inputs, 10 serial ports, VGA / flat panel output, Ethernet ports and various general purpose IO lines. Software support is provided for standard Windows XP and XPe as well as Linux.
For more information please go to our press room.
http://www.activesilicon.com/news.htm.