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Camera interfaces
Trigger timing diagram
The following diagram explains the trigger concept in general.
Notes on triggering
Trigger definitions
Note

For trigger description on camera control basis see
AVT GigE Camera and Driver Features document.
Figure 75: Trigger timing diagram
Term Definition
User trigger Trigger signal applied by the user (hardware
trigger, software trigger)
Logic trigger Trigger signal seen by the camera internal logic
(not visible to the user)
Tpd Propagation delay between the User trigger and
the Logic trigger
Table 40: Trigger definitions
User trigger
Logic trigger
Exposure
Readout
Trigger ready
Imaging
Tpd
Trigger
latency
Interline time
Exposure
start delay
Trigger
jitter
Idle
Registered
exposure
time
Readout time
N N+ 1
N N+ 1
Note: Jitter at the
beginning of an exposur
e
has no eect on the
length of exposure.