Frame Grabber Preparations; Location Of The Serial Port File - Basler ase Installation And Setup Manual

Introduction

1.2 Frame Grabber Preparations

The camera installation procedures assume that you have already installed a Camera Link frame
grabber in your PC, that you have properly installed all software included with the frame grabber,
and that you understand how your frame grabber operates.
To correctly use a Camera Link camera, you must be thoroughly familiar with the operation
of your frame grabber.
All ace camera models have a default Camera Link clock speed of 82 MHz, however, not all frame
grabbers are compatible with a clock speed this high. You should check the documentation for your
frame grabber and make sure that it can operate at a 82 MHz pixel clock speed. If it cannot, the
clock speed on the camera can be changed to 32.5 MHz, 48 MHz, or 65 MHz. For more information
about changing the Camera Link pixel clock speed, see Section 4 on page 17.
1.2.1

Location of the Serial Port File

All Camera Link compliant frame grabbers must be supplied with a dll file that describes the
characteristics of a serial port that is built into the frame grabber. This serial port is used for
communication between your PC and your camera via the Camera Link interface.
The name of the file supplied by the frame grabber manufacturer will have the form clser***.dll
where *** is determined by the manufacturer of the grabber and usually represents the
manufacturer's name. For example, a frame grabber made by the "Acme" company may supply a
file called clseracme.dll.
In order for PC-to-camera communication via the serial port to work properly, the clser***.dll must
typically be present in the PC's Windows system folder (usually C:\Windows\System32 on 32 bit
systems or C:\Windows\SysWOW64 on 64 bit systems). Check your system folder and make sure
that a copy of the clser***.dll file is present in the appropriate folder. If the file is not there, look for
it in the software supplied by your frame grabber manufacturer and copy the file into the system
folder.
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