PCVision is a half-slot PCI-bus image capture card designed specifically for price sensitive OEMs developing machine vision applications. Capable of handling inputs from a large variety of industrial inspection, identification, and gauging applications, the PCVision board can interface with standard interlaced (RS-170, CCIR) or progressive scan (VGA) cameras.

Unique to PCVision is 2MB of onboard VRAM memory for buffering image data between the camera and host PC system. This feature, not found in other low-cost machine vision boards, allows image transfers over the PCI-bus that are 10 times faster than competitors, permitting simultaneous data acquisition and processing. Onboard memory also assures that image information will not be lost during transfer to system memory.

PCVision supports external trigger, strobes, and frame reset capabilities. A 16-bit digital I/O interface for communicating results to control devices is built into the board itself.
 

Key features

• This half-slot PCI-bus card moves images to the host PC in less than 4 ms, providing an additional 29 ms of free processing time
• Onboard 2MB VRAM frame buffer and DMA bus master contribute to industry's fastest sustained image transfer speed over the PCI-bus, eliminating unnecessary processor overhead
• Hardware circuitry automatically deinterlaces images during DMA
• Supports trigger, strobe, and frame reset for developers with "real world" applications and demanding cycle times
• DMA of Areas of Interest (AOI's) minimize transfer times
• Video window allows for the selection of number of pixels per line and number of lines per image
• Onboard 16-bit digital I/O facilitates communication results to outside world
• Non Destructive Overlay support

Video Formats

• Up to 4 monochrome RS-170 or CCIR cameras
• Supports nonstandard area scan cameras up to 2K x 1K, interlaced or progressive scan

Video Input Features
PCVision provides four analog video inputs that can digitize 8-bit monochrome images from RS-170, CCIR, and noninterlaced (progressive scan) video cameras with resolutions up to 2K by 1K. Additionally, when interfacing to standard video, PCVision can accept composite video or drive external timing. This allows the frame grabber to interface to asynchronous reset cameras, a mainstay in machine vision applications. Other frame grabbers in the PCVision's price range usually only accept composite video inputs.

Interfacing cameras is easy with PCVision because of fully programmable timing coupled with efficient cabling and a variety of trigger, strobe, and asynchronous reset options.
 

Datasheet: see PCVision specs
Engineering Specifications

Specifications:

Application Notes:
PC Vision provides comprehensive vision software tool environment
High Speed Data Transfers with the PCVision

Software supported:
Camera Configurator- Windows application for easy board and camera set-up
Imaging Studio - Machine Vision Software Library
MVTools - Image Processing and Analysis Libraries in C and C++
Sherlock - Complete machine vision application environment for Windows
Common Vision Blox - Image processing and analysis libraries in Visual Basic OCX

FAQ
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