Instruction manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Declarations of conformity
- Safety instructions
- PIKE types and highlights
- FireWire
- Overview
- FireWire in detail
- Serial bus
- FireWire connection capabilities
- Capabilities of 1394a (FireWire 400)
- Capabilities of 1394b (FireWire 800)
- Compatibility between 1394a and 1394b
- Image transfer via 1394a and 1394b
- 1394b bandwidths
- FireWire Plug & play capabilities
- FireWire hot plug precautions
- Operating system support
- 1394a/b comparison
- System components
- Specifications
- Camera dimensions
- PIKE standard housing (2 x 1394b copper)
- PIKE (1394b: 1 x GOF, 1 x copper)
- Tripod adapter
- Pike W90 (2 x 1394b copper)
- Pike W90 (1394b: 1 x GOF, 1 x copper)
- Pike W90 S90 (2 x 1394b copper)
- Pike W90 S90 (1394b: 1 x GOF, 1 x copper)
- Pike W270 (2 x 1394b copper)
- Pike W270 (1394b: 1 x GOF, 1 x copper)
- Pike W270 S90 (2 x 1394b copper)
- Pike W270 S90 (1394b: 1 x GOF, 1 x copper)
- Cross section: C-Mount (VGA size filter)
- Cross section: C-Mount (large filter)
- Adjustment of C-Mount
- F-Mount, K-Mount, M39-Mount
- Camera interfaces
- Description of the data path
- Block diagrams of the cameras
- Sensor
- Channel balance
- White balance
- Auto shutter
- Auto gain
- Manual gain
- Brightness (black level or offset)
- Horizontal mirror function
- Shading correction
- Look-up table (LUT) and gamma function
- Binning (b/w models)
- Sub-sampling
- High SNR mode (High Signal Noise Ratio)
- Frame memory and deferred image transport
- Color interpolation (BAYER demosaicing)
- Sharpness
- Hue and saturation
- Color correction
- Color conversion (RGB ‡ YUV)
- Bulk Trigger
- Level Trigger
- Serial interface
- Controlling image capture
- Video formats, modes and bandwidth
- How does bandwidth affect the frame rate?
- Configuration of the camera
- Camera_Status_Register
- Configuration ROM
- Implemented registers
- Camera initialize register
- Inquiry register for video format
- Inquiry register for video mode
- Inquiry register for video frame rate and base address
- Inquiry register for basic function
- Inquiry register for feature presence
- Inquiry register for feature elements
- Inquiry register for absolute value CSR offset address
- Status and control register for feature
- Feature control error status register
- Video mode control and status registers for Format_7
- Advanced features
- Version information inquiry
- Advanced feature inquiry
- Camera status
- Maximum resolution
- Time base
- Extended shutter
- Test images
- Look-up tables (LUT)
- Shading correction
- Deferred image transport
- Frame information
- Input/output pin control
- Delayed Integration enable
- Auto shutter control
- Auto gain control
- Autofunction AOI
- Color correction
- Trigger delay
- Mirror image
- AFE channel compensation (channel balance)
- Soft Reset
- High SNR mode (High Signal Noise Ratio)
- User profiles
- GPDATA_BUFFER
- Firmware update
- Glossary
- Index
PIKE types and highlights
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PIKE types and highlights
With Pike cameras, entry into the world of digital image processing is simpler
and more cost-effective than ever before.
With the new Pike, Allied Vision Technologies presents the broadest range of
cameras in the market with IEEE 1394b interfaces. Moreover, with daisy chain
as well as Direct Fiber technology they gain the highest level of acceptance
for demanding areas of use in manufacturing industry.
Allied Vision Technologies can provide users with a range of products that
meet almost all the requirements of a very wide range of image applications.
The industry standard IEEE 1394 (FireWire or i.Link) facilitates the simplest
computer compatibility and bidirectional data transfer using the plug & play
process. Further development of the IEEE 1394 standard has already made
800 Mbit/second possible – and the firewire roadmap is already envisaging
1600 Mbit/second, with 3.2 Gbit/second as the next step. Investment in this
standard is therefore secure for the future; each further development takes
into account compatibility with the preceding standard, and vice versa,
meaning that IEEE 1394b is reverse-compatible with IEEE 1394a. Your appli-
cations will grow as technical progress advances.
For further information on FireWire read Chapter FireWire on page 17.
The AVT Pike family consists of five IEEE 1394b C-Mount cameras, which are
equipped with highly sensitive high-quality CCD sensors.
Each of these cameras is available in black/white and color versions.
A large selection of different sensor sizes (type 1/3, type 2/3, type 1,
type 1.2) and resolutions ensures the suitability of the cameras for all appli-
cations.
The Pike family consists of the following models:
Pike type Sensor Picture size Frame rates,
full resolution
PIKE F-032B/C
PIKE F-032B/C fiber
Type 1/3 KODAK KAI-340
Progressive Scan CCD imager
640 (h) x 480 (v) Up to 202 fps
PIKE F-100B/C
PIKE F-100B/C fiber
Type 2/3 KODAK KAI-1020
Progressive Scan CCD imager
1000 (h) x 1000 (v) Up to 59.9 fps
PIKE F-145B/C
PIKE F-145B/C fiber
Type 2/3 SONY ICX285
Progressive Scan CCD imager
1388 (h) x 1038 (v) Up to 30 fps
Table 4: PIKE camera types