Example 2: More Than One Pike Camera At Full Speed - AVT Pike Technical Manual

FireWire
PIKE model
Pike F-421 B/C
Pike F-505 B/C
Resolution
4 megapixel
5 megapixel
Table 7: Bandwidth of Pike cameras
Note All data are calculated using Raw8 / Mono8 color mode.
Higher bit depths or color modes will double or triple band-
width requirements.

Example 2: More than one PIKE camera at full speed

Due to the fact that one Pike camera can, depending on its settings, saturate
a 32-bit PCI bus, you are advised to use either a PCI Express card and/or mul-
tiple 64-bit PCI bus cards, if you want to use 2 or more Pike cameras simul-
taneously (see the following table).
# cameras
1 Pike camera at full speed
2 or more Pike cameras at full speed PCI Express card and/or
Table 8: Required hardware for multiple camera applications
Frame rate
15 fps
13 fps
PC hardware required
1 x 32-bit PCI bus card (85 MByte/s)
Multiple 64-bit PCI bus cards
Bandwidth
62.5 MByte/s
62.5 MByte/s
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