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Camera Link HS standard released
A new machine vision standard, Camera Link HS (CLHS), has been released at the Vision Show in Boston, US (8-10 May). Te standard, which is being overseen by the AIA, supports 2.1GB/s bandwidth per cable allowing up to 16GB/s with a maximum of eight cables. It also provides real- time triggering functionality. Te standard grew out of HS
Link, an interface originally developed by Teledyne Dalsa for its high-speed cameras that exceed the bandwidth capabilities of Camera Link. Speaking to Imaging and
Machine Vision Europe, Michael Miethig, chair of the Camera Link HS committee and technical manager at Teledyne Dalsa, commented that the first applications will be those exceeding the bandwidth of Camera Link, although he added that it is also designed for the lower end with a fibre optic connection offering 300MB/s.
CLHS also provides real-time
triggering capability, similar to Camera Link – the standard has some of the features of the original Camera Link, but it is a separate standard and not backward compatible. It has a trigger jitter of 3.2ns
and a latency of around 100- 300ns. Tis is ideal for line scan applications and simplifies system design, as latencies can largely be ignored. Te CLHS committee is
also offering an Intellectual Property (IP) Core Solution that implements the message layer of the CLHS standard. Miethig said that releasing the Cores will reduce development risk, reduce time-to-market, and make it possible for end-customers to design frame grabbers and cameras with low risk. Elsewhere, version 2.3 of the
GenICam standard has been released, which includes support for ARM processors under Linux.
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Flir posts Q1 revenues of $349 million
Flir Systems has announced $348.5 million revenue for the first quarter of 2012, ending 31 March. Revenue from the company’s commercial systems division increased 4 per cent from Q1 of 2011, to $202.3 million. Within the commercial systems division, revenue from the thermal vision and measurement segment was $155.7 million, an increase of 7 per cent over Q1 2011 results. Flir Systems has also been
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