Grablink Duo

PCI Express card

Standard profile, half length, 4-lane PCI Express card

Air cooling, fan-cooled heatsink

For insertion in a standard height, 4-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot

'A' on card bracket:

26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket with M2 jack socket screws

Camera Link camera A input, PoCL output

'B' on card bracket:

26-position Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) socket with M2 jack socket screws

Camera Link camera B input or camera A second cable input, PoCL output

'EXTERNAL I/O' on card bracket:

26-pin 3-row high-density D-Sub female socket with UNC4-40 jack socket screws

I/O lines and I/O power output

'INTERNAL I/O 1' on printed circuit board:

26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding

I/O lines and I/O power output

'INTERNAL I/O 2' on printed circuit board:

26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding

I/O lines and I/O power output

'I/O EXTENSION' on printed circuit board:

26-pin 2-row 0.05" pitch pin header with shrouding

I/O extension cable socket

'C2C-LINK' on printed circuit board:

6-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding

Card-to-card link

'AUXILIARY POWER INPUT' on printed circuit board:

6-pin PEG power socket

12 V DC power input for PoCL and I/O power output

'A', 'B' on bracket:

Bi-color red/green LEDs

Camera Link status indicator

'RECOVERY' on PCB:

3-pin 1-row 0.1" header or 2-way DIP switch

Firmware emergency recovery

PCB L x H: 167.65 mm x 111.15 mm [6.6 in x 4.38 in]

Net weight: 167 g [5.9 oz]

Gross weight: 272 g [9.6 oz]

PCI Express 2.0

4 lanes

1 lane or 2 lanes with reduced performance

5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0)

2.5 GT/s (PCIe 1.0) with reduced performance

512 bytes

2,000 MB/s

1,700 MB/s (Host PC motherboard dependent)

Typ. 7.1 W ( 2.7 W @ +3.3V, 4.4 W @ +12V), excluding camera and I/O power output

Camera Link

Camera Link 2.0

85 MHz

PoCL

Two Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR) Miniature Camera Link (MiniCL)

ECCO

One 80-bit / 72-bit / Full / Medium / Base configuration camera

Or two Base configuration cameras

2

Yes

6.8 Gbps (850 MB/s)

Base, Medium, Full, 72-bit, 80-bit

From 20 MHz up to 85 MHz

PoCL Safe Power:

Two independent controllers

PoCL Device detection and automatic power-on

Overload and short-circuit protection

A +12V power source must be connected to the AUXILIARY POWER INPUT connector using a 6-pin PEG cable

Area-scan cameras:

Grayscale and color (RGB and Bayer CFA)

Line-scan cameras:

Grayscale and color RGB

Mono8, Mono10, Mono12, Mono14, Mono16

BayerXX8, BayerXX10, BayerXX12, BayerXX16 where XX = GR, RG, GB, or BG

RGB8

NOTE: Refer to release notes for availability of BayerXX14, RGB10, RGB12, RGB14 and RGB16 formats

Precise control of asynchronous reset cameras, with exposure control.

Support of camera exposure/readout overlap.

Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay and trigger decimation.

Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.

Support of early and late strobe pulses.

Precise control of start-of-scan and end-of-scan triggers.

Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay.

Support of infinite acquisition, without missing line, for web inspection applications.

Support for quadrature motion encoders, with programmable noise filters, selection of acquisition direction and backward motion compensation.

Rate Converter tool for fine control of the pixel aspect ratio: Rate Conversion Ratio in the range 0.001 to 1000 with an accuracy better than 0.1%.

Rate Divider tool

Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.

512 MB

Unpacking of 10-/12-/14-bit to 16-bit with selectable justification to LSb or MSb

Monochrome 8-bit to 8-bit transformation

Monochrome 10-bit to 8-, 10- or 16-bit transformations

Monochrome 12-bit to 8-, 12- or 16-bit transformations

Advanced interpolation method using average and median functions on a 3x3 kernel

Measurement of:

Frame rate (Area-scan only)

Line rate

Data rate

Configurable averaging interval

The application software can be notified of the occurrence of various events:

Standard event: the EVENT_NEW_BUFFER event notifies the application of newly filled buffers

A large set of custom events

Custom events sources:

I/O Toolbox events

Camera and Illumination control events

Each custom event is associated with a 32-bit counter that counts the number of occurrences

The last three 32-bit context data words of the event context data can be configured with event-specific context data:

Event-specific data

State of all System I/O lines sampled at the event occurrence time

Value of any event counter

20 I/O lines:

4 differential inputs (DIN)

4 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs (TTLIO)

8 isolated inputs (IIN)

4 isolated outputs (IOUT)

NOTE: The number of I/O lines can be extended using I/O modules attached to the I/O EXTENSION connector.

Any I/O input lines can be used by any LIN tool of the I/O Toolbox

Selected pairs of I/O input lines can be used by any QDC tool of the I/O toolbox to decode A/B signals of a motion encoder

DIN: High-speed differential inputs, up to 5 MHz, compatible with ANSI/EIA/TIA-422/485 differential line drivers and complementary TTL drivers

TTLIO: High-speed 5V-compliant TTL inputs or LVTTL outputs, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers or LVTTL, TTL, 3V CMOS receivers

IIN: Isolated current-sense inputs with wide voltage input range up to 30V, signaling up to 200 kHz, individual galvanic isolation up to 250VDC and 170 VAC, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers, RS-422 differential line drivers, potential free contacts, solid-state relays and opto-couplers

IOUT: Isolated contact outputs compatible with 30V / 100mA loads

NOTE: IIN and IOUT lines provide a functional isolation grade for the circuit technical protection. It does not provide an isolation that can protect a human being from electrical shock!

Glitch removal filter available on all System I/O input lines

Configurable filter delay:

Custom value

Fixed values for DIN and TTLIO lines: 50 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns, 1 µs

Fixed values for IIN lines: 500 ns, 1 µs, 2 µs, 5 µs, 10 µs

Yes

Non-isolated, +12V, 1A, with electronic fuse protection

The I/O Toolbox is a configurable interconnection of tools that generates events (usually triggers):

Line Input tool (LIN): edge detector delivering events on rising or falling edges of any selected input line.

Quadrature Decoder tool (QDC): a composite tool including:

A quadrature edge detector delivering events on selected transitions of selected pairs of input lines.

An optional backward motion compensator for clean line-scan image acquisition when the motion is unstable.

A 32-bit up/down counter for delivering a position value.

User Actions Scheduler tool (UAS): to delegate the execution of 'User Actions' at a scheduled time or encoder position. Possible user actions include setting low/high/toggle any bit of the User Output Register or generation of any User Events.

Delay tool (DEL): to delay up to 16 events from one or two I/O toolbox event sources, by a programmable time or number of motion encoder ticks (any QDC events).

Divider tool (DIV): to generate an event every nth input events from any I/O toolbox event source.

Multiplier/divider tool (MDV): to generate m events every d input events from any I/O toolbox event source.

The 'Input Tools' (LIN, QDC and UAS) can be further processed by the 'Event Tools' (DEL, DIV and MDV) to generate any of the following "trigger" events:

The "cycle trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller

The "cycle sequence trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller

The "start-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)

The "end-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)

Determined by the selected firmware variant:

'1-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 C2C

'2-camera': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 C2C

'1-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C

'2-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 3 C2C

Accurate synchronization of the trigger and the start-of-exposure of multiple grabber-controlled area-scan cameras.

Accurate synchronization of the start-of-cycle, start-of-scan and end-of-scan of multiple grabber-controlled line-scan cameras.

C2C-Link synchronizes cameras connected to:

the same card

to different cards in the same PC (requires an accessory cable such as the "3303 C2C-Link Ribbon Cable" or a custom-made C2C-Link cable)

to different cards in different PCs (requires one "1636 InterPC C2C-Link Adapter" for each PC and one RJ 45 CAT 5 STP straight LAN cable for each adapter but the last one)

Maximum distance:

120 cm inside a PC

1200 m cumulated adapter to adapter cable length

Maximum trigger rate:

2.5 MHz for configurations using a single PC, or up to 10 PCs and 100 m total C2C-Link cable length

200 kHz for configurations up to 32 PCs and 1200m total C2C-Link cable length

Trigger propagation delay from master to slave devices:

Less than 10 ns for cameras on the same card or on different cards in the same PC

Less than 265 ns for cameras on different cards in different PCs (3 PCs and 40m total C2C-Link cable length)

Microsoft Windows 11, 10 for x86-64 (64-bit) processor architecture

Linux for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures

macOS for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures

EGrabber class, with C++ and .NET APIs: .NET assembly designed to be used with development environments compatible with .NET frameworks version 4.0 or higher

GenICam GenTL producer libraries compatible with C/C++ compilers:

'x86_64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86-64 (64-bit) applications

'aarch64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of AArch64 (64-bit) applications

Yes

0 °C to +50 °C / +32 °F to +122 °F

10% to 90% RH non-condensing

-20 °C to +70 °C/ -4 °F to +158 °F

10% to 90% RH non-condensing

European Council EMC Directive 2014/30/EU

United States FCC rule 47 CFR 15

EN 55032:2015 / CISPR 32:2012 Class B

FCC 47 Part 15 Class B

EN 55035:2017 / CISPR 35:2016

EN 61000-6-2:2005 / IEC 61000-6-2:2016

EN 61000-4-2:2009

EN 61000-4-3:2006

EN 61000-4-4:2004

EN 61000-4-6:2014

Korean Radio Waves Act, Article 58-2, Clause 3

PCB compliant with UL 94 V-0

European Union Directive 2015/863 (ROHS3)

European Union Regulation 1907/2006

Must be disposed of separately from normal household waste and must be recycled according to local regulations

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PC1625 DB25F I/O Adapter Cable

PC1636 InterPC C2C-Link Adapter

PC3303 C2C-Link Ribbon Cable

PC3304 HD26F I/O Adapter Cable

PC3610 HD26F I/O Extension Module - TTL-RS422

PC3612 HD26F I/O Extension Module - TTL-CMOS5V-RS422