Introduction; Software Concept - Balluff MATRIX VISION mvBlueNAOS Technical Manual

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1.7 Introduction

The mvBlueNAOS is a PCI Express board-level camera family compliant to the GenICam GenTL Producer (p. 113)
standard. The camera family combines the Sony IMX sensor with up to 16 LVDS lanes with a 4 lane PCI Express
interface including Generation 2 performance. Furthermore, the mvBlueNAOS offers
• a wide range of sensors and resolutions with high frame rates,
• I/Os suitable for industrial applications, and
• a modular design.
The PCI Express interface enables large sensors with high frame rates to be fully exploited at full speed. This and
the modular concept makes the mvBlueNAOS ideally suited for applications in the medicine, reverse vending, traffic
surveillance, 3D measurement, packaging, logistics, and robotics area.

1.7.1 Software concept

The mvBlueNAOS is a GenICam (p. 113) compliant device, using an XML-file describing the device capabilities.
Within this XML-file it uses the names, units, data types etc. recommended by the SFNC (p. 121) to describe the
devices features. Whenever custom features have been added to the mvBlueNAOS firmware these can clearly be
spotted by the leading 'mv' in the features name.
The following figure shows the software concept of MATRIX VISION's camera devices:
Figure 1: mvBlueNAOS
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