Installation manual

AVT GigE Cameras Installation Manual V1.0.1

Installing hardware

[OSX] (PvAPI only)

– System Preferences

–Network

– Select Ethernet, click Advanced

– TCP/IP tab:

Configure IPv4: Manually

IPv4 Address: 169.254.100.1

Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0

Router: Blank

Ethernet adapter optimization

5. The Ethernet adapter should be adjusted to improve system performance when

using a GigE Vision camera. This performance is related to minimizing CPU

usage and dropped or resent packets.

Edit the Ethernet adapter driver properties according to the values in the table

below. The names and availability of the properties listed may vary depending

on adapter manufacturer and model.

Default AVT GigE Vision camera factory settings configure the camera packet

size to 8228. The host adapter needs to support a packet size of equal or larger

size to stream from the camera.

Properties Value

Packet size (MTU) 8228 or larger

Interrupt Moderate Rate Extreme

Transmit buffers 256 bytes

Receive buffers Max setting available

Table 3: Ethernet adapter performance settings

Note

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If adapter packet size support is limited to 1500 bytes, as on

10/100 speed NICs, the camera packet size can be reduced

using VIMBA Viewer / GigE Sample Viewer and saved to an on

board camera power up config file.

PvAPI users: See ConfigFile in the AVT GigE Camera and Driver

Attributes document.

VIMBA users: See SavedUserSets in the AVT GigE Camera and

Driver Features document.

Figure 4: Interfaces file for static IP,

Linux Ubuntu 10.04