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STINGRAY Technical Manual V2.2.0

Example 2: More than one Stingray camera at full speed

Due to the fact that one Stingray camera can, depending on its settings, sat-

urate a 32-bit PCI bus, you are advised to use either a PCI Express card and/

or multiple 64-bit PCI bus cards, if you want to use 2 or more Stingray cam-

eras simultaneously (see the following table).

Stingray F-146 B/C 1.44 megapixel 15 fps 21.61 MByte/s

Stingray F-201 B/C 2 megapixel 14 fps 17.20 MByte/s

Note

All data are calculated using Raw8 / Mono8 color mode.

Higher bit depths or color modes will double or triple band-

width requirements.

# cameras PC hardware required

1 Stingray camera at full speed 1 x 32-bit PCI bus card (85 MByte/s)

2 or more Stingray cameras at full

speed

PCI Express card and/or

Multiple 64-bit PCI bus cards

Table 7: Required hardware for multiple camera applications

STINGRAY model Resolution Frame rate Bandwidth

Table 6: Bandwidth of Stingray cameras