Manual

Camera interfaces

GUPPY Technical Manual V7.1.0

Control and video data signals

The inputs and outputs of the camera can be configured by software. The dif-

ferent modes are described below.

Inputs

Triggers

The signal can be inverted. The camera must be set to external triggering to

trigger image capture by the trigger signal.

Input/output pin control

All input and output signals running over the camera I/O connector are con-

trolled by an advanced feature register.

Note

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For a general description of the inputs and warnings see the

Hardware Installation Guide.

0xF1000300 IO_INP_CTRL1 Presence_Inq [0] Indicates presence of this fea-

ture (read only)

TiedToOutput [1] only board level Guppy: Tied to

output pin x (read only)

--- [2..6] Reserved

Polarity [7] 0: Signal not inverted

1: Signal inverted

--- [8..10] Reserved

InputMode [11..15] Mode

see Table 23: Input routing on

page 81

--- [16..30] Reserved

PinState [31] RD: Current state of pin

0xF1000304 IO_INP_CTRL2 Same as

IO_INP_CTRL1

Only Guppy board level cameras

Table 22: Input configuration register