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.

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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.

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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.

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