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
FireWire
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FireWire
Overview
FireWire provides one of the most comprehensive, high-performance, cost-
effective solutions platforms. FireWire offers very impressive throughput at
very affordable prices.
Definition
FireWire (also known as i.Link or IEEE 1394) is a personal computer and
digital video serial bus interface standard, offering high-speed communica-
tions and isochronous real-time data services. FireWire has low implemen-
tation costs and a simplified and adaptable cabling system.
IEEE 1394 standards
FireWire was developed by Apple Computer in the late 1990s, after work
defining a slower version of the interface by the IEEE 1394 working commit-
tee in the 1980s. Apple's development was completed in 1995. It is defined
in IEEE standard 1394 which is currently a composite of three documents:
• the original IEEE Std. 1394-1995
• the IEEE Std. 1394a-2000 amendment
• the IEEE Std. 1394b-2002 amendment
FireWire is used to connect digital cameras, especially in industrial systems
for machine vision. An advantage over USB is its faster effective speed and
higher power distribution capabilities. Multi-camera applications are easier
to set up than in USB.
Why use FireWire?
Digital cameras with on-board FireWire (IEEE 1394a or 1394b) communica-
tions conforming to the IIDC standard (V1.3 or V1.31) have created cost-
effective and powerful solutions options being used for thousands of differ-
ent applications around the world. FireWire is currently the premier robust
digital interface for industrial applications for many reasons, including:
Figure 1: FireWire Logo