User guide

Introduction
STINGRAY Technical Manual V4.4.4
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Manual overview
This manual overview describes each chapter of this manual shortly.
• Chapter Contacting Allied Vision Technologies on page 11 lists AVT con-
tact data for both:
– technical information / ordering
–commercial information
• Chapter Introduction on page 12 (this chapter) gives you the document
history, a manual overview and conventions used in this manual (styles
and symbols). Furthermore you learn how to get more information on
how to install hardware (Hardware Installation Guide), available AVT
software (incl. documentation) and where to get it.
• Chapter STINGRAY cameras on page 29 gives you a short introduction to
the STINGRAY cameras with their FireWire technology. Links are provided
to data sheets and brochures on AVT website.
• Chapter Conformity on page 30 gives you information about conformity
of AVT cameras.
• Chapter FireWire on page 31 describes the FireWire standard in detail,
explains the compatibility between 1394a and 1394b and explains
bandwidth details (incl. Stingray examples).
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V4.4.3
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15.03.2012
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More smaller corrections:
• Removed Active FirePackage in the last line fo spefication
tables in Chapter Specifications on page 46
• Added explanations to H, p and q abbreviations in Chapter
Frame rates on page 240
• Added hyperlinks to Stingray compact in Chapter Camera
dimensions on page 71
• Added Table 38: RGB8 format: Source: IIDC V1.31 on page
112
• Added Raw12 format in sharpness Note on page 176.
• Added arrow for Raw8/12/16 in Figure 53: Block diagram
color camera on page 116
• High SNR mode: Added note to set grab count and acti-
vation of HighSNR in one single write access:
– see Chapter High SNR mode (High Signal Noise Ratio)
on page 168
–Chapter High SNR mode (High Signal Noise Ratio) on
page 321
V4.4.4 31.05.12 New frame rates for Stingray F-033/F-033 BL:
• See Chapter Stingray F-033/F-033 BL: AOI frame rates on
page 245
Version Date Remarks
Table 1: Document history