PhoEnIx - Active Silicon

Featuring:
Camera Link: Base, Medium and Full Camera Link
36-bit LVDS capture for D36 variants
Speed: 1Gbytes/s transfer rate
Available in: PCI Express, PCI, CompactPCI, PMC &
PC/104-Plus form factors
Windows, DoS, Mac oS x, Linux, VxWorks, Qnx
with 32-bit and 64-bit support
Versatility: Supports Areascan, Linescan and
Datastream sources
Ease of implementation: oEM software libraries
and 3rd party driver support
PHOENIX D24CL/D48CL/D64CL/D36
PhoEnIx
DIGITAL FRAME GRABBERS
www.activesilicon.com

Phoenix. Fast Frame Grabbers
from Active Silicon
Whether a vision system is used for an industrial,
medical or defence application, it will only be as
good as the images it acquires. It is essential to
have an image capture board that can cope.
That’s where Active Silicon frame grabbers come
into their own. OEMs and integrators need high-
speed, high-quality image acquisition boards to
handle the increased image format and data output
rates available from today’s high-performance
digital cameras and to work with a wide range of
imaging systems.
Designed to shorten development times, reduce
production costs and enhance operating speeds in
a broad array of applications, Phoenix rises above
the crowd on every count.
Demanding Specification
The Phoenix Series combines high-performance
functionality with exceptional versatility and
adaptability, giving OEMs and integrators the
ultimate in flexibility and control. Available in
PCI Express, PCI, CompactPCI, PMC and PC/104-
Plus form factors with either LVDS or Camera Link
options.
Functionality
Phoenix has impressive speed, processing up to
1Gbyte/s without host intervention.
The high-performance DMA engine is both scalable
(supporting x1 and x4 PCIe also 32-bit/33MHz
and 64-bit/66MHz PCI) and has features designed
specifically for customers’ applications.
Phoenix can acquire asynchronously from two
digital Areascan or Linescan cameras, halving the
number of boards needed in some multi-camera
machine-vision systems to reduce costs.
If required, the acquisition on each channel can be
synchronized. If multiple boards are used, then the
chaining connector allows acquisition triggers and
timers to be synchronized between boards.
When capturing from Bayer cameras, Phoenix
can arbitrarily adjust the Red, Green and Blue
pixel data via onboard Look Up Tables (LUTs).
For example to apply white balance or gamma
correction to capture data.
Versatility
Phoenix gives OEMs the ultimate in flexibility and
control. Acquisition control, counter/timers, region-
of-interest generators, DMA Scatter/Gather engine
and bus interface (PCI/PCIe) are all integrated into
a single FPGA device.
Phoenix supports a wide range of Areascan,
Linescan and Datastream cameras. Configured at
run-time rather than with a fixed hardware design,
it allows new hardware features to be provided
through a simple software upgrade.
Specialized camera features, such as multiple tap,
asynchronous reset, shutter & exposure control
and serial communications are all easily handled
through configuration files or library calls.
Triggers to start/stop or gate acquisition, generate
strobes and control illumination can be set by the
built-in opto-isolated I/O...or controlled directly by
the application through the general TTL I/O.
COMMS
RS232/644
OPTO
I/O
LVDS I/O
/TTL OUT
CLOCK
HVAL, LVAL
DVAL
36 DATA BITS
CLOCK
HVAL, LVAL
DVAL
LVDS I/O
/TTL OUT
OPTO
I/O
COMMS
RS232/644
ACQ
CONTROL A
EXPOSURE
CONTROL A
EXPOSURE
CONTROL B
ACQ
CONTROL B
Phoenix D36 Block Diagram
DATA
ROUTER
COUNTER
TIMERS A
COUNTER
TIMERS B
ROI A
ROI B
CHAINING
CONNECTOR
MULTIPLE
LOOK-UP
TABLES
TTL
GENERAL I/O
DATA
MAPPER
DATA
MAPPER
DMA
PCI
CONTROLLER
DMA
PCI BUS

APPLICATIonS
Industrial
Flat panel inspection
Print inspection
Barcode reading
Medical
X-Ray
CT and MRI
Ophthalmology
Defense
Guidance
Tracking
Scientific
Genomics
Cell biology
PIV
Adaptability
The Phoenix Series’ many features include
variable image size capture, tap reconstruction,
real-time LUT selection and trigger delays.
Software Development Kit
Designed to shorten development times and make
future developments transparent, the libraries
make writing imaging applications fast and easy.
A powerful suite of image capture functions and
camera configuration files is accessed through an
easy-to-use interface.
Just one or two function calls are all it takes to set
up such features as sequence recording, capture
to a rolling set of image buffers, DMA to other
devices, exposure control and synchronization with
external devices.
Multiple OS support is available including
XP/XPe/Vista, DOS, Mac OS X, Linux, VxWorks,
QNX and Solaris. Third-party image analysis
software drivers (including
LabVIEW, CVB
and many others)
facilitate even
shorter
development
times.
PHOENIX D24CL/D48CL/D64CL/D36
PhoEnIx SPECIFICATIon
Dual Base support as well as single Medium
and Full Camera Link video sources
Power over Camera Link (PoCL) with
SafePower
36-bit LVDS digital image sources
x1 and x4 PCIe, 32-bit/33Mhz PCI and
64-bit/66Mhz PCI/PCI-x bus
Up to 1Gbyte/s image transfer
Single, reconfigurable FPGA device
Linescan, Areascan, and Datastream modes
Support for multiple-tap cameras
Multiple boards easily synchronized
Sequence capture or continuous capture
to multiple image buffers
Asynchronous acquisition from 2 separate
digital cameras, or one stereo camera
Third-party image analysis drivers such as
LabVIEW, MATLAB, StreamPix and CVB
Cross-platform support: xP/xPe/Vista, DoS,
Mac oS x, Linux, VxWorks, Qnx and Solaris,
native 64-bit oS support
Multiple form-factor support: PCI Express, PCI,
PMC, CompactPCI and PC/104-Plus
Bayer camera support
For the latest list of supported cameras please
visit our website:
www.activesilicon.com

Feature List
Europe:
Active Silicon Limited
Pinewood Mews
Bond Close
Iver, SL0 0NA
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1753 650600
Fax: +44 (0)1753 651661
info@activesilicon.co.uk
www.activesilicon.co.uk
USA:
Active Silicon, Inc.
479 Jumpers Hole Road
Suite 301
Severna Park
MA 21146, USA
Tel: +1 410 696 7642
Fax: +1 410 696 7643
info@activesilicon.com
www.activesilicon.com
PHOENIX D24CL/D48CL/D64CL/D36
PHX-D24CL PHX-D48CL PHX-D64CL PHX-D36
PCI Express (x1) -
PCI Express (x4) -
PCI (32-BIT/33MHz) - -
PCI (64-BIT/33MHz) - -
PCI/PCI-X (64-BIT/66MHz) - -
LVDS Input - - - 36-bit
Camera Link Base 1 2 1 -
Camera Link Medium - 1 1 -
Camera Link Full - - 1 -
Max Pixel Clock 85MHz 85MHz 85MHz 60MHz
LVDS I/O 4 4 4 4
Camera Link Controls 4 8 4 -
24V Opto-isolated I/O 4 4 4 4
TTL I/O 16 16 16 16
Serial Ports 1 2 1 2
Stereo Camera Support -
Power over Camera Link (PoCL) -
Founded in 1988, Active Silicon specializes
in the design, manufacture and supply of
digital imaging products and technologies.
This includes video acquisition, vision
systems and networked
video on a variety of
standard and specialist
operating systems. The
products are created from
a core set of software and
hardware technologies
developed in-house and based upon
industry standard microprocessors such
as Pentium and PowerPC. These products
and technologies have many applications
throughout business, science and industry
…such as manufacturing, medical science,
remote visual monitoring, scientific research
and security. Customers include a variety
of government organizations and blue chip
companies as well as many small and
medium sized companies. In fact Active
Silicon products are in use on land, sea,
in the air and even in space.…for medical
diagnostics, deep sea exploration,
aerospace applications and space
robotics.
As well as the range
of product
solutions,
customers
also have direct
access to
Active Silicon
for systems advice,
consultancy and integration
work to ensure successful
completion of end user
applications. Solutions may also
include the development of custom boards
and software, often using specialist
operating systems.
Although primarily a product based
company, Active Silicon can provide a wide
range of consultancy services for the design
and integration of imaging equipment into
OEM machines and end-user systems. This
often extends to the development of custom
software or hardware solutions, as well as
licensing its own software technologies.
In fact, Active Silicon has now
developed quite a variety of
cross-platform software
technologies, including
a novel device driver
architecture; image read,
write, processing and display
code; plus JPEG and MJPEG
compression CODECs.