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
 

Controlling image capture
 PIKE Technical Manual V3.1.0
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One-Shot
The camera can record an image by setting the OneShot bit in the 61Ch reg-
ister. This bit is automatically cleared after the image is captured. If the cam-
era is placed in Iso_Enable mode (see Chapter ISO_Enable / Free-Run on page 
157), this flag is ignored.
If OneShot mode is combined with the external trigger, the OneShot com-
mand is used to arm it. The following screenshot shows the sequence of com-
mands needed to put the camera into this mode. It enables the camera to 
grab exactly one image with an external trigger edge.
If there is no trigger impulse after the camera has been armed, OneShot can 
be cancelled by clearing the bit.
Note
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• Exposure times entered via the 81Ch register are mir-
rored in the extended register, but not vice versa.
• Longer integration times not only increase sensitivity, 
but may also increase some unwanted effects such as 
noise and pixel-to-pixel non-uniformity. Depending on 
the application, these effects may limit the longest 
usable integration time.
• Changes in this register have immediate effect, even 
when the camera is transmitting.
• Extended shutter becomes inactive after writing to a 
format/mode/frame rate register.
 Figure 79: One-shot control (SmartView)










