Frame Grabber provides Camera Link® solution for laptops

Suited for mobile image acquisition, Framelink(TM) employs Camera Link[R] interface and features plug-n-play operation with hot insertion/removal. Product utilizes PCMCIA Cardbus interface and includes intelligent scatter/gather DMA engine with on-board memory. Provided with software suite that includes drivers and applications, small form factor PCMCIA Type II card is suited for industrial, medical, security and military applications.

January 24, 2006, (Boca Raton, FL) -- Imperx, Inc. brings the robust, industry-standard Camera Link[R] interface to the world of mobile imaging. The Framelink(TM) PCMCIA frame grabber slips into the PCMCIA slots found in most laptop computers, palmtop computers, PDAs and a host of other high-mobility computing devices. By employing the industry standard Camera Link[R] interface, Framelink(TM) puts high-performance image acquisition anywhere you need it.

Framelink(TM) is the world's first digital Camera Link[R] frame grabber for laptops. It provides the functionality, performance and versatility required by today's most demanding vision systems. The card features plug-n-play operation with hot insertion/removal and includes an intelligent scatter/gather DMA engine with a generous supply of on-board memory. A full software suite, including drivers and applications, is provided. Optional software development kit (SDK) is available.

Framelink(TM) features include:

o PCMCIA Cardbus interface;

o Small form factor PCMCIA Type II;

Analog Framegrabbers

PXC200A	Low Cost RS170/NTSC grabber.
Falcon Family	Lowest Cost RS170/NTSC grabber. Easy to use, WDM drivers.
Falcon Quatro	4 simultaneous NTSC inputs. Think of it as 4 Falcons in a single slot!
VCE-B5A01	Lowest Cost PCMCIA RS170/NTSC grabber. Easy to use, WDM drivers.
VCE-PRO	High end feature packed PCMCIA RS170/NTSC grabber. Easy to use, WDM drivers.
X64-AN Quad™	The X64-AN Quad is a high-performance PCI-X bus compatible frame grabber designed to deliver concurrent image acquisition from multiple independent standard and progressive scan analog camera.
PC2-Vision™	The PC2-Vision is a high-performance, PCI image acquisition board developed for cost-sensitive machine vision applications.
Bandit-II CV™	The Bandit-II CV is an integrated image acquisition and VGA accelerator designed to meet the dynamic requirements of general-purpose video applications.

Camera-Link Framegrabbers

	X64-CL iProTM	With the capability of simultaneous acquisition from two Camera Link cameras and FPGA based processing including Bayer decoding and shading correction the X64-CL iPro is ideal for cost sensitive/high performance applications.
	X64-CL DualTM	One of the fastest and most flexible 64-bit image acquisition boards on the market with transfer images at a rate of up to 528MB/s.
	X64-CL FullTM	Compatible with one Base, Medium or Full Camera Link camera, the X64-CL Full is universal PCI slot compliant and supports all standard multiple tap area and line scan color and monochrome Camera Link cameras.
	PC2-CamlinkTM	PC2-CamLink is ideal for cost-sensitive applications and compatible with one monochrome area or linescan Base Camera Link™ camera.
	PC-CamLinkTM	An industrial half-slot PCI frame grabber featuring a high-speed image transfer architecture and flexible interface for high-resolution Camera Link digital cameras.
	Framelink	PCMCIA base camera link framegrabber.

High End Powerful Framegrabbers

X64 Xcelera

Dalsa

Dalsa has announced its new line of frame grabbers – the X64 Xcelera Series. Building on the Dalsa’s X64 frame grabbers, the new Xcelera Series uses the PCI Express platform. The platform is unified, scalable and supports Camera Link cameras, with future versions extending to multiple input, progressive scan analogue and parallel LVDS digital cameras.

Designed with the requirements of machine vision OEMs in mind, the Xcelera Series will range from entry-level frame grabbers, to high-performance image acquisition boards and embedded vision processors. The series provides bandwidth of 1GB/sec over multiple-lane PCI Express implementations for the latest high-bandwidth applications. Two products from the series have been released so far – the X64 Xcelera-CL PX4 Dual and X64 Xcelera-CL Full. The Dual version uses Dalsa’s Trigger-to-Image Reliability framework to provide reliable and efficient acquisition. It can acquire images from up to two Base Camera Link cameras, and uses FPGA-based processing. Both feature half-length PCI Express x4 boards and are Windows XP Professional X64 compatible. The Full version can capture images from one camera at rates of up to 1Gb/s. It supports Base, Medium or Full Camera Link operations up to 85MHz. An extended feature set supports non-Camera Link pixel/tap configurations.