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PIKE Technical Manual V5.1.2

Example1: 1394b bandwidth of PIKE cameras

Example 2: More than one PIKE camera at full speed

Due to the fact that one Pike camera can, depending on its settings, saturate a

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

64-bit PCI bus cards, if you want to use 2 or more Pike cameras simultaneously

(see the following table).

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ExpressCard is a new standard set by PCMCIA.

For more information visit:

http://www.expresscard.org/web/site/

PIKE model Resolution Frame rate Bandwidth

Pike F-032 B/C VGA 208 fps 62.5 MByte/s

Pike F-100 B/C 1 megapixel 60 fps 57.6 MByte/s

Pike F-145 B/C 1.4 megapixel 30 fps 41.4 MByte/s

Pike F-210 B/C 2.1 megapixel 31 fps 62.5 MByte/s

Pike F-421 B/C 4 megapixel 15 fps 62.5 MByte/s

Pike F-505 B/C 5 megapixel 13 fps 62.5 MByte/s

Pike F-1100 B/C 10.7 megapixel 2.6 fps (single-tap)

4.9 fps (dual-tap)

26.6 MByte/s

50.0 MByte/s

Pike F-1600 B/C 15.8 megapixel 1.7 fps (single-tap)

3.1 fps (dual-tap)

25.7 MByte/s

46.8 MByte/s

Table 6: Bandwidth of Pike 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 Pike camera at full speed 1 x 32-bit PCI bus card (85 MByte/s)

2 or more Pike cameras at full speed PCI Express card and/or

Multiple 64-bit PCI bus cards

Table 7: Required hardware for multiple camera applications