Owner's manual

Camera interfaces

Bonito Technical Manual V2.3.0

The baud rate is factory-set to 115200 but can also be configured to other val-

ues: see chapter Serial control interface configuration (s) on page 66.

All command examples are formatted in the following styles:

• Bold Courier font: characters sent to the camera

• Courier font: the camera’s answer

At power-up the camera loads the stored parameter configuration from its non-

volatile memory and sends a start message after successful initialization to all

activated serial interfaces.

The following is an example of the start message

Bonito CL / CMC-4000 CMOS High-Speed Camera

Version: CMC.040.xx.yy

The command prompt character > indicates that the camera is ready to receive

and process the next command. Each command consists of a command letter,

followed by an equality sign and a parameter value in hexadecimal number rep-

resentation. The command letter is case sensitive. Hexadecimal values are

always upper case and are 1 to 8 hex digits long. The command is activated by a

carriage return ([CR], ASCII character number 0D). Serial communication oper-

ates in echo mode by default. This means that each character received by the

camera is echoed back to the sender.

For that reason, all serial commands (exceptions: V

, Y, a, ?) have the fol-

lowing general syntax:

>A=wxyz[CR]

The following example sets the exposure time to 1000 = 3E8 time units:

1. User sends the six characters

E=3E8[CR]

2. Camera answers with nine characters (echo followed by new prompt)

E=3E8[CR][CR][LF]>

Sign Description

A Command or parameter letter

(observe upper and lower case printing!)

= Equality sign (3D)

wxyz 1-8 digits long value in hexadecimal number representation

(capital letters)

[CR] Carriage Return (0D)

[LF] Line Feed (0A)

Table 4: Syntax of serial commands