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.