User Manual

PIKE Technical Manual V5.1.2
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Contents
Contacting Allied Vision Technologies ..................................................12
Introduction ...........................................................................................................13
Document history.......................................................................................................... 13
Manual overview ........................................................................................................... 26
Conventions used in this manual ...................................................................................... 28
Styles ..................................................................................................................... 28
Symbols.................................................................................................................. 28
More information .......................................................................................................... 29
Before operation........................................................................................................... 29
PIKE cameras .......................................................................................................31
Conformity ..............................................................................................................33
CE...................................................................................................................... 33
FCC – Class B Device .............................................................................................. 33
FireWire....................................................................................................................34
Overview ..................................................................................................................... 34
Definition................................................................................................................ 34
IEEE 1394 standards.................................................................................................. 34
Why use FireWire? ..................................................................................................... 35
FireWire in detail........................................................................................................... 35
Serial bus................................................................................................................ 35
FireWire connection capabilities .................................................................................. 37
Capabilities of 1394a (FireWire 400) ............................................................................. 37
IIDC V1.3 camera control standards.......................................................................... 37
Capabilities of 1394b (FireWire 800) ............................................................................. 38
IIDC V1.31 camera control standards ........................................................................ 38
Compatibility between 1394a and 1394b ....................................................................... 39
Compatibility example........................................................................................... 39
Image transfer via 1394a and 1394b............................................................................. 40
1394b bandwidths .................................................................................................... 41
Requirements for PC and 1394b ............................................................................... 41
Requirements for laptop and 1394b ......................................................................... 42
Example1: 1394b bandwidth of PIKE cameras............................................................. 43
Example 2: More than one PIKE camera at full speed.................................................... 43
FireWire Plug & play capabilities .................................................................................. 44
FireWire hot-plug and screw-lock precautions................................................................. 44
Screw-lock and power supply precautions ...................................................................... 45
Operating system support........................................................................................... 46
Filter and lenses .................................................................................................47
IR cut filter: spectral transmission .................................................................................... 47