User Manual
Guppy PRO Technical Manual V4.0.0
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Contents
Contacting Allied Vision Technologies ................................................... 9
Introduction ...........................................................................................................10
Document history ......................................................................................................... 10
Manual overview........................................................................................................... 17
Conventions used in this manual..................................................................................... 18
Styles ..................................................................................................................... 18
Symbols .................................................................................................................. 18
More information.......................................................................................................... 19
Before operation .......................................................................................................... 20
Guppy PRO cameras .........................................................................................21
Conformity ..............................................................................................................22
FireWire....................................................................................................................23
Overview ..................................................................................................................... 23
Definition ............................................................................................................... 23
IEEE 1394 standards ................................................................................................. 23
Why use FireWire? .................................................................................................... 23
FireWire in detail.......................................................................................................... 24
Serial bus................................................................................................................ 24
FireWire connection capabilities ................................................................................. 25
Capabilities of 1394a (FireWire 400)............................................................................ 26
IIDC V1.3 camera control standards ........................................................................ 26
Capabilities of 1394b (FireWire 800) ........................................................................... 26
IIDC V1.31 camera control standards ...................................................................... 27
Compatibility between 1394a and 1394b...................................................................... 27
Compatibility example .......................................................................................... 27
Image transfer via 1394a and 1394b ........................................................................... 28
1394b bandwidths.................................................................................................... 29
Requirements for PC and 1394b.............................................................................. 29
Requirements for laptop and 1394b ........................................................................ 30
Example 1: 1394b bandwidth of Guppy PRO cameras.................................................. 31
Example 2: More than one Guppy PRO camera at full speed ........................................ 31
FireWire Plug & play capabilities................................................................................. 32
FireWire hot-plug and screw-lock precautions ............................................................... 32
Operating system support .......................................................................................... 33
Filter and lenses .................................................................................................34
IR cut filter: spectral transmission .................................................................................. 34
Camera lenses .............................................................................................................. 35
Specifications .......................................................................................................38
Guppy PRO F-031B/C ..................................................................................................... 38