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Understanding Camera Interfacing Standards

Mark Williamson
Strategic Sales & Marketing Director
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Who is Stemmer Imaging
The History of Camera Interfacing
The Current Standards
Up and Coming Standards
The Future
Agenda
To maximize our customers competitive
advantage through the provision of world leading
vision technology, expert knowledge and attentive
service.
Our Mission
Your advantage: our experience.
Foundation of STEMMER Industrielle Messdatenerfassung in Germany
Entry into the emerging image processing sector
Switch to PCs in industrial applications
Foundation of separate imaging company STEMMER IMAGING
Development of our solution-oriented one-stop shopping philosophy
Launch of Common Vision Blox
Pinnacle Vision and Vortex vision start trading in the UK
Pinnacle Vision and Vortex Vision merge to form FIRSTSIGHT Vision
FIRSTSIGHT join STEMMER to form STEMMER IMAGING Group
STEMMER IMAGING Group companies rename to STEMMER IMAGING
Milestones
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2009
STEMMER IMAGING
Tongham Surrey
near London
Puchheim
near Mnchen
Suresnes
near Paris
Pfffikon
near Zrich
Total revenue: 46 million Euro* (Financial Year 20010/11)
Employees in the group: over 130 * Estimated
30 Years of Growth
Over 10,000 products
Over 3 million of stock
130 staff in 4 countries
Independent of technology
70% of staff are technical
Free in-depth training
Financially strong
Active in Industry Groups
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What is a Camera Interfacing Standard
Physical Interconnect
Communication Protocols
Camera Control
Standards include
Machine Vision Standards
Multimedia Standards
Broadcast Standards
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The Evolution of Camera Interfacing
The early days, practical but still
just a collection of ill-matched
components!
Better and more integrated, but
still not optimised for ease of use.
A modern integrated system with
power, speed and flexibility
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The Evolution of Camera Interfacing
The Early Years
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Early Interfacing Methods
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The Evolution of Camera Interfacing
The First Standards
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CameraLink
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CameraLink
Objective
Simplify the cabling and inter-connect between camera and interface
Scale to support wide range of camera performances
Solution
Standard Cable design including serial for camera control
Different configurations for different speed cameras
10 Meter cables*
* Dependent on Clock Speed
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Configurations
Base : 1 cable, up to 24 bit @85Mhz ( 3 tap), 255 Mbytes/sec max
Medium : 2 cables, up to 48 bit@85Mhz ( 4 tap), 510 Mbytes/sec max
Full : 2 cables, up to 64bit@ 85Mhz ( 8 tap), 680 Mbytes/sec max
Full+ : 2 cables 80 bit@85Mhz (10 tap), 850 Mbytes/sec*
*Not officially in the standard as of 2010
CameraLink
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The Reality of Cable Length
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CameraLink Evolution
Initial Standard mid 1990s
Administered by the AIA
Power over CameraLink option in the early 2000s
Mini connector for smaller cameras introduced early 2000s
Version 2 plans to incorporate all the enhancements
CameraLink Lite for lower performance even smaller cables late
Gen<i>Cam camera control
Formalisation of ten tap configuration
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IEEE-1394 (FireWire)
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IEEE-1394 FireWire Standard
Initial software used consumer drivers such as direct show
IEEE trade association defined DCAM for industrial applications
DCAM Defined register map and feature set.
Camera Manufactures added special features outside DCAM
Key Features
First network protocol
Deterministic data transmission
10 meter cable length (1394 a tested) 4.5m official specification
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FireWire Evolution
Mid 1990s IEEE-1394a released
Data Rate <40MByte/second
Mid 2000s IEEE 1394b released
Data rate <80Mbytes/second
Backwards compatible
The Future
Standard details S3200 providing 320MByte/s
Unclear if these will materialise, slow adoption
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USB 2.0
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USB 2.0
Consumer Driven Interface Standard
Industrial camera applications use manufacturer drivers
No real standard for industrial camera interfacing
The most cost effective method to add camera to computers
Some manufactures have produced Gen<i>Cam drivers
Cable lengths limited to 4.5meters
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The Evolution of Camera Interfacing
Now & The Future
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Gig-E Vision
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Gig-E Vision
The Industrys second camera interfacing standard
Administered by the AIA
Deliver long cable lengths - 100m
100 Mbytes/second
Development spawned separate camera control standard
Gen<i>Cam
First plug & play standard
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Gig-E Vision Evolution
2011 sees Version 2.0 of the standard
IEEE-1588 or PTP for over network synchronisation
Compression
LAG Link aggregation increases speed to 200 Mbytes/second
Interlaced Camera support
The Future
Talk of 10 Gig-E Vision
Power dissipation possible stumbling block
Gig-E Vision is an ideal lower speed standard
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Gen<i>Cam
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Gen<i>Cam
Initiated from the needs of Gig-E Vision
Administered by the EMVA
Gen API focussed on camera control
Gen TL extended to deal with different transport types
Provides information to
control any camera
receive data from an interface
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Gen<i>Cam
GigE Vision is first standard defines the use of GenAPI
CameraLink v2.0 makes the used of Gen API an option
Expected to be used in future camera interfacing standards
CoaXpress First standard to make the Gen TL a requirement
CameraLink-HS
Other interface providers are delivering Gen<i>Cam
Support going beyond camera control
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Gen<i>Cam
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Where We Are today
Latest high end cameras already pushing existing standards
* Technically not included in the standard
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Moores Law
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2010 A Crossroads
High-end 1.5 - 3 GB/sec
CameraLink is not fast enough
Extended cable length
Camera control included
Mid-range up to 600 MBytes/sec
Progression from CameraLink
Extended cable length
Cost reduction
Camera control included
Low-end up to 100 Mbytes/sec
Gig-E Vision, Firewire, CameraLink
Lite
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Whats Next
CameraLink HS
CoaXpress
USB3
Light Peak
HD-SDI
HDMI
HD-CCTV
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CoaXpress
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CoaXpress
Winner of the Vision award 2009
Now being administered by J IIA
Over 80 companies involved in adopter and liaison groups
Specification v 1.0 beta released at vision 2010
Finalisation of standard by end of Q1 2011
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CoaXpress Key Features
Delivers up to 600Mbytes/sec per single coax cable
Up to 100 meter cable length (40m at 600MBytes/sec)
Scalable first interface cards to have 4 channels
4 x 600, 2 x 1200 or 1 x 2400 MByte/sec camera
Single cable for power, camera control and data
Trigger latency 3.4 us
Embraces Gen<i>Cam
Error Detection
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CoaXpress Key Features
Single coax enables:
Retrofitting analogue applications
Ideal for applications that require slip ring
Products in development that go beyond machine vision
Defence
Medical
Risks
Single source chipset
Standard requires Escrow and alternative circuit design
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CameraLink HS
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CameraLink HS
Originated by DALSA as HS-Link
Technology handed to AIA for standardisation
Objectives
Scales to beyond CameraLink
Improve Image transmission reliability
Simplified cabling & ease of use
Commonly available components
Timescale to standard not yet fully defined
12 members and expanding
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CameraLink HS Key Features
Range of proposed speed/ cable options
Coax - up to 300 Mbytes/sec length undefined
CX4 (10 GigE copper) up to 1.8GBytes/sec @ 20m
CX4 (10 GigE) fibre optic at 900MByte/sec @100m
SFP two core fibre 300MByte/sec @ 100 meters
CXP 12 6.6 GBytes/sec @ 100 Meters
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CameraLink HS Key Features
IP core can be implemented with FPGA
Packet based with resend and efficiency of over 98%
Real time trigger to 3.2ns latency
Data forwarding built in
Very Scalable X1 to X20 300MBytes/sec to 6GBytes/second
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Summary of MV Camera Interfacing
*On V2.0 only sync ** Technically, more cables possible *** V2 support network timing **** Error detection, manual resend
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How do the machine vision standards compare
to other camera interfacing standards?
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Hardware The future
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Cable Distances by Interface
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Interfaces by Speed
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Software Interfacing
Consumer standards exist such as Direct Show and Twain
Machine Vision needs device control and reliability
Develop using an interface library the is Gen<i>Cam Compliant
Camera and interface providers will supply compliant drivers
Choose a Hardware independent SDK
Supporting non Gen<i>Cam compliant interfaces
Look for robust image handling and error reporting built in
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Gen<i>Cam
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The only Certified Gig-E Vision and Gen<i>Cam compliant SDK
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