Quick Start - Allied Vision Technologies F-131C Technical Manual

Quick start

5 Quick start
To attach an IEEE-1394 camera to a PC or laptop, the target machine must be equipped with an
IE EE-1394 port and have the appropriate driver and software installed. This IEEE-1394 port is
a lready present in many modern PCs and laptops. Should this not be the case, you can upgrade
b y installing one or more IEEE-1394 ports in the form of a card for the PCI slot, or as a PC card
(P CMCIA) for the PC card slot. AVT offers a wide range of adaptors for different requirements.
After starting the operating system, the plug and play mechanism on the PC should recognize the
new hardware and prompt you to install the IEEE-1394 driver from Microsoft.
AVT supplies since 3Q/2004 an additional TWAIN (VIA) drivers and WDM stream software to
integrate the images into third party software which has these interfaces.
Alternatively the FirePackage API SDK can be used. This replaces the MS-IEEE-1394 driver with
the driver produced by the company Intek.
A more detailed description for these installation routines can be found in the "FirePackage"
software manuals.
The latter driver works in conjunction with the "SmartView" program. This viewer enables not
only quick and easy access to all integrated IEEE-1394 ports and all the connected IEEE-1394
cameras, but also supports almost all smart features of the AVT Marlin family of cameras.
After selecting a card and a camera an image of this camera will immediately displayed.
In the Edit settings dialog box you can adjust the settings for the standard registers according to
the IIDC specification, e.g. exposure time or gain.
Direct access to the register level, e.g. to activate the advanced features of the camera, is carried
out via the Direct access dialog box.
We refer to a separate description of this viewer and its capabilities.
Figure 12: SmartView
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