PC1633 Coaxlink Quad G3 Specifications

Mechanical

Feature name Feature value
Form factor

PCI Express card
Format

Standard profile, half length, 4-lane PCI Express card
Cooling method

Air cooling, fan-cooled heatsink
Mounting

For insertion in a standard height, 4-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot
Connectors
● 'A B C D' on card bracket:
□ 4 x DIN 1.0/2.3 75 Ohms coaxial receptacles
□ CoaXPress Host Interface
● 'EXTERNAL I/O' on card bracket:
□ 26-pin 3-row high-density D-Sub female socket with UNC4-40 jack socket screws
□ I/O lines and I/O power output
● 'INTERNAL I/O 1' on printed circuit board:
□ 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding
□ I/O lines and I/O power output
● 'INTERNAL I/O 2' on printed circuit board:
□ 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding
□ I/O lines and I/O power output
● 'C2C-LINK' on printed circuit board:
□ 6-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding
□ Card-to-card link
● 'AUXILIARY POWER INPUT' on printed circuit board:
□ 6-pin PEG power socket
□ 12 V DC power input for PoCXP and I/O power output
LED indicators
● 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' on bracket:
□ Bi-color red/green LEDs
□ CoaXPress Host connector indicator
● 'FPGA STATUS LAMP' on PCB:
□ Bi-color red/green LED
□ FPGA status indicator
● 'BOARD STATUS LAMP' on PCB:
□ Bi-color red/green LED
□ Board status indicator
Switches

'RECOVERY' on PCB:

● 3-pin 1-row 0.1" header or 2-way DIP switch
● Firmware emergency recovery
Dimensions

PCB L x H: 167.65 mm x 111.15 mm [6.6 in x 4.38 in]
Weight

Net weight: 173 g [6.1 oz]

Gross weight: 274 g [9.7 oz]

Host bus

Feature name Feature value
Standard

PCI Express 3.0
Link width
● 4 lanes
● 1 lane or 2 lanes with reduced performance
Link speed
● 8.0 GT/s (PCIe 3.0)
● 5.0 GT/s (PCIe 2.0) with reduced performance
Maximum payload size

512 bytes
DMA

32- and 64-bit
Peak delivery bandwidth

3,900 MB/s
Effective (sustained) delivery bandwidth

3,350 MB/s (Host PC motherboard dependent)
Power consumption

Typ. 16.8 W (3.8 W @ +3.3V, 13 W @ +12V), excluding camera and I/O power output

Camera / video inputs

Feature name Feature value
Camera interface standard

CoaXPress
Interface standard(s)

CoaXPress 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1, 2.0 and 2.1
Maximum link speed

CXP-6
Maximum link width

4 connections
Camera powering

PoCXP
Connectors

Four DIN1.0/2.3 75 Ohms CXP-6
Status LEDs

One CoaXPress Host connection status LED per connection
Number of cameras
● Area-scan cameras:
□ One 1- or 2- or 4-connection camera
□ One 1- or 2- or 4-connection multi-stream camera (up to 4 data streams)
□ One or two 1- or 2-connection cameras
□ One 1- or 2-connection and one or two 1-connection cameras
□ Up to four 1-connection cameras
□ One 4-connection sub-link of an 8-connection camera
● Line-scan cameras:
□ One 1- or 2- or 4-connection camera
□ One or two 1- or 2-connection cameras
□ Up to four 1-connection cameras
Maximum number of cameras

4
Line-scan cameras supported

Yes
Maximum aggregated camera data transfer rate

25 Gbps (2,500 MB/s)
Supported CXP down-connection speeds

1.25 Gbps (CXP-1), 2.5 Gbps (CXP-2), 3.125 Gbps (CXP-3), 5 Gbps (CXP-5), and 6.25 Gbps (CXP-6)
Number of CXP data streams (per camera)
● 4 on '1-camera, 4 data-stream' firmware variant
● 1 per camera on other firmware variants
Maximum CXP stream packet size

16,384 bytes
PoCXP (Power over CoaXPress)
● PoCXP Safe Power:
□ 17 W of 24V DC regulated power per CoaXPress connector
□ PoCXP Device detection and automatic power-on
□ Overload and short-circuit protections
● On-board 12V to 24V DC/DC converter
● A +12V power source must be connected to the AUXILIARY POWER INPUT connector using a 6-pin PEG cable
Camera types
● Area-scan cameras:
□ Grayscale and color (YCbCr, YUV, RGB and Bayer CFA)
□ Single-tap (1X-1Y) progressive-scan
● Line-scan cameras and contact imaging sensors:
□ Grayscale and color RGB
Camera pixel formats supported
● Mono8, Mono10, Mono12, Mono14, Mono16
● BayerXX8, BayerXX10, BayerXX12, BayerXX14, BayerXX16 where XX = GR, RG, GB, or BG
● RGB8, RGB10, RGB12, RGB14, RGB16
● RGBA8, RGBA10, RGBA12, RGBA14, RGBA16
● YCbCr601_422_8, YCbCr601_422_10
● YCbCr709_422_8, YCbCr709_422_10
● YUV422_8, YUV422_10
● Raw

Area-scan camera control

Feature name Feature value
Trigger
● Precise control of asynchronous reset cameras, with exposure control.
● Support of camera exposure/readout overlap.
● Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay and trigger decimation.
Strobe
● Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.
● Support of early and late strobe pulses.

Line-scan camera control

Feature name Feature value
Scan/page trigger
● Precise control of start-of-scan and end-of-scan triggers.
● Support of external hardware trigger, with optional delay.
● Support of infinite acquisition, without missing line, for web inspection applications.
Line trigger
● Support for quadrature motion encoders, with programmable noise filters, selection of acquisition direction and backward motion compensation.
● Rate Converter tool for fine control of the pixel aspect ratio: Rate Conversion Ratio in the range 0.001 to 1000 with an accuracy better than 0.1%.
● Rate Divider tool
Line strobe
● Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.

On-board processing

Feature name Feature value
On-board memory

1 GB
Image data stream processing
● Unpacking of 10-/12-/14-bit to 16-bit with selectable justification to LSb or MSb
● Optional swap of R and B components
● Little endian conversion
Flat-field correction

Only available with the '1-camera' and '1-camera, line-scan' firmware variants
Input LUT (Lookup Table)

Available on all the firmware variants but '1-camera, 4-data-stream':

● Monochrome 8-bit to 8-bit transformation
● Monochrome 10-bit to 8-, 10- or 16-bit transformations
● Monochrome 12-bit to 8-, 12- or 16-bit transformations
Bayer CFA to RGB decoder
● '1-camera' firmware variant:
□ 3x3 linear interpolation method
□ 3x3 median-based interpolation method
● '2-camera' firmware variant:
□ 5x5 gradient-based interpolation method (for one camera only)
Data stream statistics
● Measurement of:
□ Frame rate (Area-scan only)
□ Line rate
□ Data rate
● Configurable averaging interval
Event signaling and counting
● The application software can be notified of the occurrence of various events:
□ Standard event: the EVENT_NEW_BUFFER event notifies the application of newly filled buffers
□ A large set of custom events
● Custom events sources:
□ I/O Toolbox events
□ Camera and Illumination control events
□ CoaXPress data stream events
□ CoaXPress host interface events
● Each custom event is associated with a 32-bit counter that counts the number of occurrences
● The last three 32-bit context data words of the event context data can be configured with event-specific context data:
□ Event-specific data
□ State of all System I/O lines sampled at the event occurrence time
□ Value of any event counter

General Purpose Inputs and Outputs

Feature name Feature value
Number of lines

20 I/O lines:

● 4 differential inputs (DIN)
● 4 singled-ended TTL inputs/outputs (TTLIO)
● 8 isolated inputs (IIN)
● 4 isolated outputs (IOUT)
Usage
● Any I/O input lines can be used by any LIN tool of the I/O Toolbox
● Selected pairs of I/O input lines can be used by any QDC tool of the I/O toolbox to decode A/B signals of a motion encoder
Electrical specifications
● DIN: High-speed differential inputs, up to 5 MHz, compatible with ANSI/EIA/TIA-422/485 differential line drivers and complementary TTL drivers
● TTLIO: High-speed 5V-compliant TTL inputs or LVTTL outputs, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers or LVTTL, TTL, 3V CMOS receivers
● IIN: Isolated current-sense inputs with wide voltage input range up to 30V, compatible with totem-pole LVTTL, TTL, 5V CMOS drivers, RS-422 differential line drivers, potential free contacts, solid-state relays and opto-couplers
● IOUT: Isolated contact outputs compatible with 30V / 100mA loads

NOTE: IIN and IOUT lines provide a functional isolation grade for the circuit technical protection. It does not provide an isolation that can protect a human being from electrical shock!
Filter control
● Glitch removal filter available on all System I/O input lines
● Configurable filter delay:
□ Custom value
□ Fixed values for DIN and TTLIO lines: 50 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns, 1 µs
□ Fixed values for IIN lines: 500 ns, 1 µs, 2 µs, 5 µs, 10 µs
Polarity control

Yes
Power output

Non-isolated, +12V, 1A, with electronic fuse protection
I/O Toolbox tools

The I/O Toolbox is a configurable interconnection of tools that generates events (usually triggers):

● Line Input tool (LIN): edge detector delivering events on rising or falling edges of any selected input line.
● Quadrature Decoder tool (QDC): a composite tool including:
□ A quadrature edge detector delivering events on selected transitions of selected pairs of input lines.
□ An optional backward motion compensator for clean line-scan image acquisition when the motion is unstable.
□ A 32-bit up/down counter for delivering a position value.
● Device Link Trigger tool (DLT): delivers an event on reception of a valid high-speed CoaXPress 2.0 connection trigger packet message from the remote device.
● User Actions Scheduler tool (UAS): to delegate the execution of 'User Actions' at a scheduled time or encoder position. Possible user actions include setting low/high/toggle any bit of the User Output Register or generation of any User Events.
● Delay tool (DEL): to delay up to 16 events from one or two I/O toolbox event sources, by a programmable time or number of motion encoder ticks (any QDC events).
● Divider tool (DIV): to generate an event every nth input events from any I/O toolbox event source.
● Multiplier/divider tool (MDV): to generate m events every d input events from any I/O toolbox event source.
● The 'Input Tools' (LIN, QDC, DLT and UAS) can be further processed by the 'Event Tools' (DEL, DIV and MDV) to generate any of the following "trigger" events:
□ The "cycle trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller
□ The "cycle sequence trigger" of the Camera and Illumination controller
□ The "start-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)
□ The "end-of-scan trigger" of the Acquisition Controller (line-scan only)
I/O Toolbox composition

Determined by the selected firmware variant:

● '1-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 C2C
● '2-camera': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 C2C
● '3-camera': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 2 C2C
● '4-camera': 8 LIN, 4 QDC, 1 UAS, 4 DEL, 4 DIV, 4 MDV, 2 C2C
● '1-camera, 4-data-stream': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 2 C2C
● '1-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C
● '2-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 2 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 2 DIV, 2 MDV, 3 C2C
● '4-camera, line-scan': 8 LIN, 4 QDC, 1 UAS, 4 DEL, 4 DIV, 4 MDV, 3 C2C
● '1-slm-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C
● '1-sls-camera': 8 LIN, 1 QDC, 1 UAS, 2 DEL, 1 DIV, 1 MDV, 3 C2C

C2C-Link

Feature name Feature value
Description
● Accurate synchronization of the trigger and the start-of-exposure of multiple grabber-controlled area-scan cameras.
● Accurate synchronization of the start-of-cycle, start-of-scan and end-of-scan of multiple grabber-controlled line-scan cameras.
Specification
● C2C-Link synchronizes cameras connected to:
□ the same card
□ to different cards in the same PC (requires an accessory cable such as the "3303 C2C-Link Ribbon Cable" or a custom-made C2C-Link cable)
□ to different cards in different PCs (requires one "1636 InterPC C2C-Link Adapter" for each PC and one RJ 45 CAT 5 STP straight LAN cable for each adapter but the last one)
● Maximum distance:
□ 120 cm inside a PC
□ 1200 m cumulated adapter to adapter cable length
● Maximum trigger rate:
□ 2.5 MHz for configurations using a single PC, or up to 10 PCs and 100 m total C2C-Link cable length
□ 200 kHz for configurations up to 32 PCs and 1200m total C2C-Link cable length
● Trigger propagation delay from master to slave devices:
□ Less than 10 ns for cameras on the same card or on different cards in the same PC
□ Less than 265 ns for cameras on different cards in different PCs (3 PCs and 40m total C2C-Link cable length)

Software

Feature name Feature value
Driver name

eGrabber
First release

Coaxlink 4.0
Current release

eGrabber 25.05
Host PC Operating System
● Microsoft Windows 11, 10 for x86-64 (64-bit) processor architecture
● Linux for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures
● macOS for x86-64 (64-bit) and AArch64 (64-bit) processor architectures
APIs
● EGrabber class, with C++ and .NET APIs: .NET assembly designed to be used with development environments compatible with .NET frameworks version 4.6 or higher
● GenICam GenTL producer libraries compatible with C/C++ compilers:
□ 'x86_64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86-64 (64-bit) applications
□ 'aarch64' dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of AArch64 (64-bit) applications
Memento supported

Yes

Environmental conditions

Feature name Feature value
Operating ambient air temperature

0 °C to +55 °C / +32 °F to +131 °F
Operating ambient air humidity

10% to 90% RH non-condensing
Storage ambient air temperature

-20 °C to +70 °C/ -4 °F to +158 °F
Storage ambient air humidity

10% to 90% RH non-condensing

Certifications

Feature name Feature value
EMC standards
● European Council EMC Directive 2014/30/EU
● United States FCC rule 47 CFR 15
EMC - Emission
● EN 55032:2015 / CISPR 32:2012 Class B
● FCC 47 Part 15 Class B
EMC - Immunity
● EN 55024:2010 / CISPR 24:2010
● EN 61000-4-2:2009
● EN 61000-4-3:2006
● EN 61000-4-4:2004
● EN 61000-4-6:2014
KC Certification

Korean Radio Waves Act, Article 58-2, Clause 3
Flammability

PCB compliant with UL 94 V-0
RoHS

European Union Directive 2015/863 (ROHS3)
REACH

European Union Regulation 1907/2006
WEEE

Must be disposed of separately from normal household waste and must be recycled according to local regulations

Ordering information

Feature name Feature value
Product status

Released
Product code - Description

PC1633 Coaxlink Quad G3
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