Glossary - Balluff MATRIX VISION mvBlueNAOS Technical Manual

1.17 Glossary

1.17 Glossary
ADC
API
BusyBox
CIFS
CPU
DAC
Defaults
DHCP
Digital I/O
GDB
GenICam
GenTL
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Analog-to-digital converter (A/D converter).
Application programming interface (API). The standard API for
MATRIX VISION products is called mvIMPACT_Acquire (p. 119).
Configurable monolithic application including shell and other useful
command line tools - often called the "swiss army knife" for embedded
systems. Even desktop distributions are sometimes relying on BusyBox
due to its robustness. Please see
details.
Common Internet file system (CIFS) replaced Samba in 2006.
It gets rid of NetBIOS packets an introduced Unix features like
soft/hard links and allows larger files.
Central processing unit aka processor.
Digital to analog converter (D/A converter).
Standard system settings.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). DHCP is a protocol
used by networked devices (clients) to obtain various parameters
necessary for the clients to operate in an Internet Protocol (IP) network.
Digital inputs and outputs.
GDB, the GNU Project debugger.
GenICam stands for GENeric programming Interface for CAMeras.
It's a generic way to access and modify device parameters with a
unified interface. A GenICam compliant device either directly provides
a GenICam compliant description file (in internal memory) or the
description file can be obtained from a local (hard disk etc.) or web
location. A GenICam description file is something like a machine
readable device manual. It provides a user readable name and value
range for parameters (p. 121) that are offered by the device for reading
and/or
writing and instructions on what command must be sent to a device when
the user modifies or reads a certain parameter from the device. These
description files are written in XML. An excerpt from such a file can
be seen in the figure below:
Excerpt of a GenICam description file (in XML)
For further information on this topic please have a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenICam
GenTL is the transport layer interface for
cameras, acquiring images from the camera, and moving them to the
user application.
http://www.busybox.net
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