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approximately 22,000 people worldwide, and reported revenues of just under $2.8bn in 2013. As well as its headquarters in Phoenix, it has manufacturing facilities in Europe, North America and the Far East, with design centres and solution engineering centres across the globe. At the recent Vision event
in Stuttgart, the company announced two additions to its Python product family of CMOS image sensors. Te Python 2000 and 5000, with resolutions of 2.3 megapixels and 5.3 megapixels respectively, have multiple applications within the industrial image sensing market including machine vision, inspection and motion monitoring, security, surveillance, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Te Python series of products use
ON Semiconductor’s in-pixel (ipCDS) technology, which enables global shutter imaging with correlated double sampling
(CDS) in a compact pixel size. Te Python pixel, therefore can capture fast-moving scenes without distortion with a read noise of 9 e- with 7.7 V/lux sensitivity, and frame rates as high as 850fps (VGA). ON Semiconductor also launched
Wherever
there is industrial automation, you’ll have machine vision
a new CCD image sensor – the KAE- 02150 – which uses the company’s Interline Transfer (IT) CCD pixel design with a newly-developed electron multiplication (EM) output structure. Te new sensor can capture 1080p (1,920 x 1,080 pixel) video in scenes with variable lighting conditions, such as from sunlight to starlight. According to ON
Semiconductor, this opens up possibilities for a single camera imaging system, such as light-starved applications in surveillance, defence/military, scientific and medical imaging, and ITS. Looking to the future, Hopkin added that
customers are driving innovation further still. ‘Today, we have a 25-megapixel device.
Our customers are soon going to ask for a 50-megapixel version because they recognise the fact that an image sensor with a higher resolution can potentially reduce their overall costs and improve their long-term efficiency,’ he explained. ‘Teoretically, the increased capabilities of the camera will capture far more images and allow that customer to inspect more images at once.’ Hopkin also believes that the Internet of
Tings (IoT) is beginning to have an impact within machine vision. IoT can be viewed as the interconnection of unique computing devices within an internet infrastructure, and Hopkin predicts that factories are going to increasingly leverage the connections between cameras in large automation areas and benefit from access to a large amount of data in real-time. ‘Factories are increasingly requiring the use of image sensors and cameras, and the level of connectivity that comes with those products is going to add to the growth of machine vision in the next few years,’ said Hopkin, adding: ‘Wherever there is industrial automation, you’ll have machine vision.’ O
Designed for ultimate performance, the FireBird CXP-6 provides blisteringly quick image acquisition with no CPU intervention using the latest FPGA technology, DDR3 memory and a fast 8-lane Gen2 PCI Express interface.
Uitilizing the new digital transmission standard CoaXPress, each link supports up to 6.25Gbps data rates, along with power up to 13W and control at 20Mbps – all on a single coax cable of lengths up to 40m or over 100m at 3.125Gbps.
FireBird CoaXPress Frame Grabber. At 25 Gbps, fast doesn’t begin to describe it.
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