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Rev. 0.1
Q-8V100 / S-25A30
Q-8V100m
Q-8V100c
S-25A30m
S-25A30c
2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1
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  • Page 1 Manual Rev. 0.1 Q-8V100 / S-25A30 Q-8V100m Q-8V100c S-25A30m S-25A30c 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...
  • Page 2 Adimec is the only company in the market that weds the specific needs of its highly demanding customers to its technological inventiveness, generating vision solutions of exceptional quality.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    6.3. Modes of operation .................. 18 6.3.1. Frame Period ................18 6.3.2. Integration Time ..............18 6.3.3. Trigger input and polarity selection .......... 18 6.4. Flash Strobe commands................19 6.4.1. Flash strobe polarity ..............19 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...
  • Page 4 6.8. Service and Maintenance ................ 24 6.8.1. Built-in test ................24 6.8.2. Error diagnosis ................ 25 6.8.3. Cross hairs and test pattern ............ 25 6.8.4. Frame count and image tagging (not available in first prototypes) ....................27 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 5: General Introduction

    Frame Grabbers – Version 1.1 - January 2004. 1.4. Liability Adimec puts in a lot of effort in preparing this manual. Please inform your Adimec Business Office of any inaccuracies or omissions. Adimec Advanced Image Systems B.V. cannot be held responsible for any technical or typographical errors and reserves the right to make changes to the product and manuals without prior notice.
  • Page 6 5657 EA Eindhoven The Netherlands The Netherlands Tel: +31 (40) 2353920 Fax: +31 (40) 2353905 URL: www.adimec.com Publication number: xxxxxx Q-8V100_S-25A30 rev. 0.1 © Copyright 2011 Adimec Advanced Image Systems B.V. Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 7: Precautions

    All cameras are checked for cleanliness in our factory before shipment. Proper handling instructions during system assembly can prevent the CMOS sensor from getting contaminated. Should cleaning of the CMOS sensor be necessary follow the instruction below. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 8: Cleaning Of The Camera

    Cleaning of the camera The camera shall NEVER be immersed in water or any other fluid. For cleaning, only use a light moist tissue. 2.2.4. Maintenance No specific maintenance other than cleaning is applicable. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 9: Repair And Modification

    2.2.5. Repair and modification Repair, modification and replacement of parts shall be done only by Adimec to maintain compliance with the directive 89/336/EEC electromagnetic compatibility and directive 72/23/EEC low voltage directive and the international standards. 2.2.6. Peripheral equipment For safety, use an external SELV qualified power supply. Maximum current 1 A.

  • Page 10: Installation

    The delay from non-conductive to conductive state of the phototransistor is less than 1.5 μs. The delay from conductive to non-conductive state of the phototransistor is less than 10 μs. The recommended termination circuitry is drawn in Figure 3.3. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 11: Camera Link Interface Connector

    NOTE: PoCL (Power over Camera Link) is not supported. When connecting the camera to a PoCLcompliant frame grabber, the PoCL-function must be disabled. NOTE: The Q-8V100 and S-25A30 support only Camera Link 8 tap and 10 tap configuration. This requires two equivalent cables (i.e. of the same length and preferably the same brand and type number).

  • Page 12: Functional Characteristics

    4. FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS 4.1. Overview The Q-8V100 and the S-25A30 are direct pipeline cameras (acquisition and transmission are not decoupled through a memory). They support various acquisition modes, basic processing functions, region of interest, defect pixel correction and some service and GPIO functionality.

  • Page 13: Control Of The Camera

    Command and data are packed in a message. A message starts with the STX character followed by the message content. The message ends with an ETX character. The characters allowed in the message content range from decimal 32 to 255. Format: STX <message content> ETX 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 14: Message Acknowledgement

    5.2. Camera Link interface standard Without getting into detail on the Camera Link standard, this section discusses the mechanics of the serial communication channel. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 15: Overview

    (xxx is uniquely assigned to AIA member companies). Clserial.dll then dynamically loads those .dll files and queries each one for its manufacturer name and port names. This action produces a list of all possible ports. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 16: Camera Link Ports Assignment

    Standard for Digital Cameras and Frame Grabbers – Version 1.1 - January 2004. 5.3. Camera Link ports assignment Only Camera Link full configuration is available in this camera, in 8 or 10 taps. The format is horizontally interleaved. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 17: Detailed Functionality & Control Descriptions

    Command Syntax: In addition, user settings can be stored by: Command Syntax: The settings stored in the user set are loaded all at once by: Command Syntax: The camera can be rebooted by: 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 18: Modes Of Operation

    1 μs, ranging from 1 to 100,000. The camera automatically clips to the maximum value for the set frame period. 6.3.3. Trigger input and polarity selection 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 19: Flash Strobe Commands

    If x=0 the strobe photo transistor is non-conductive during the active state of the strobe. 6.4.2. Output Mode setting The strobe output can be operated in two different modes, which are set through the FSM command. Command Syntax: FSMx FSM? 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 20: Defect Pixel Correction

    4 adjacent pixels that are not defect. The neighbors are labeled N, S, E, and W in figure 6.1. Their weights are listed in table 6.1 for the possible situations. Figure 6.1: Surrounding of defect pixel Is defect: Weight of adjacent pixel: 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 21: Addition And Removal Of Defect Pixels

    After either of the changes described in this subsection, the new (modified) defect list must be saved to non-volatile memory by: Command Syntax: DPSC Else, the modifications will be lost upon camera reboot. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 22: Restoring Factory Default Defect Pixel List

    The difference between black level and offset is that the former scales along when gain is applied whereas the latter does not. 6.6.2. Digital fine gain Command Syntax: Here x is the gain in steps of 0.01x, ranging from 100 to 400. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 23: White Balance (Color Only)

    ROI width and height. x, y, w and h are in pixels. x must be a multiple of 2 and ranges from 0 to 5119. y can be any value between 0 and 5088. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 24: Camera Link Settings (Taps And Lval-Gap)

    Some tests are run at camera start-up and others are continuously run. The BIT result can be queried by: Command Syntax: BIT? In case of no failure, a 0 is returned. The returned values for various failures are listed below. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 25: Error Diagnosis

    6.8.3. Cross hairs and test pattern Cross hairs and test pattern are available in the camera for aligning the image and debugging the imaging pipeline. Command Syntax: Where x is as follows: 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...
  • Page 26 The crosshair is composed of a vertical line 2 pixels wide, horizontally centered with reference to the output image and a horizontal line 2 pixels high vertically centered with reference to the output image. 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

  • Page 27: Frame Count And Image Tagging (Not Available In First Prototypes)

    Tag data assignment is listed in the table below: Pixel location (x,y) Assignment (0,0) Frame counter bits 7:0 (1,0) Frame counter bits 15:8 (2,0) Frame counter bits 23:16 (3,0) Frame counter bits 31:24 2012-03-29 Manual Q-8V100 and S-25A30 Rev. 0.1 preliminary...

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