Instruction manual

Guppy PRO Technical ManualV4.1.0

FireWire

Example 1: 1394b bandwidth of Guppy PRO cameras

Example 2: More than one Guppy PRO camera at full speed

Due to the fact that one Guppy PRO camera can, depending on its settings, satu-

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

tiple 64-bit PCI bus cards, if you want to use 2 or more Guppy PRO cameras simul-

taneously (see the following table).

FireWire Plug & play capabilities

FireWire devices implement the ISO/IEC 13213 configuration ROM model for

device configuration and identification, to provide plug & play capability. All

FireWire devices are identified by an IEEE EUI-64 unique identifier (an extension

of the 48-bit Ethernet MAC address format) in addition to well-known codes indi-

cating the type of device and protocols it supports. For further details read chap-

ter Configuration of the camera on page 178.

Guppy PRO model Resolution Frame rate Bandwidth

Guppy PRO F-031B/C 0.3 megapixels 123 fps 39 MByte/s

Guppy PRO F-032B/C 0.3 megapixels 82 fps 26 MByte/s

Guppy PRO F-033B/C 0.3 megapixels 84 fps 27 MByte/s

Guppy PRO F-046B/C 0.45 megapixels 61 fps 28 MByte/s

Guppy PRO F-095C 0.9 megapixels 38 fps 36 MByte/s

Guppy PRO F-125B/C 1.2 megapixels 31 fps 38 MByte/s

Guppy PRO F-146B/C 1.4 megapixels 17 fps 20 MByte/s

Guppy PRO F-201B/C 2.0 megapixels 14 fps 28 MByte/s

Guppy PRO F-503B/C 5.0 megapixels 13 fps 65 MByte/s

Table 4: Bandwidth of Guppy PRO cameras

Note

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All data are calculated using Raw8 / Mono8 color mode. Higher

bit depths or color modes will double or triple bandwidth

requirements.

# cameras PC hardware required

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

2 or more Guppy PRO cameras at full

speed

PCI Express card and/or

Multiple 64-bit PCI bus cards

Table 5: Required hardware for multiple camera applications