CoaXPress (CXP) is a simple, yet powerful, standard for moving high speed serial data from a camera to a frame grabber. Video is captured at speeds of up to 6.25 Gigabits/Second (Gb/S). Simultaneously, control commands and triggers can be sent to the camera 20 Mb/S (with a trigger accuracy of +/- 2 nanoseconds). Up to 13 W of power can also supplied to the camera. All this happens over a single piece of industry standard 75 Ohm coaxial cable. Multiple CXP links can be aggregated to support higher data rates (e.g. four links provide 25 Gb/S of data).
The CXP standard opens the door to applications where cable cost, routing requirements and long distances have prevented the move to high resolution, high speed digital cameras. In many cases, existing coaxial infrastructure can be repurposed for CXP with very low installation costs. The Aon is almost the simplest and most affordable CoaXPress frame grabber that can be manufactured. The amazing thing is that it is still incredibly powerful and flexible. We've taken everything we've developed for the Cyton platform, and squeezed it into a small affordable package.
Features:
Half-Height, Half-Size x2 PCI Gen 2.0 Express Board
Half height bracket available
CoaXPress 1.1 compliant (supports 1.0 and 1.1. cameras)
Supports one CXP-6 camera
Supports CXP speeds from 1.250 to 6.250 Gb/S
Uses DIN 1.0/2.3 connectors
Provides power for camera (up to 13 Watts per link)
Provides Safe Power, full protection from all power line faults
Cameras are Plug and Play with automatic link speed detection
Cable lengths of up to 135 meters are supported
PCI Express x2 Gen 2.0 interface
Compatible with PCI Express Gen 1.0 slots
I/O connector on bracket
Compatbile with BitBox external I/O module
Highly deterministic, low latency frame grabber to camera trigger
FlowThru technology means no on-board memory is needed
StreamSync acquisition engine optimizes synchronization between acquisition and DMA
Acquire variable length frames from line scan cameras
Acquire image sequences well beyond the 4GB barrier
No frame rate limit
Triggers and encoders for external control of acquisition
Programmable signal generator for camera control
Quadrature encoder support including sophisticated triggering schemes
Encoder divider/multiplier
Drivers, utilities and examples for Windows and Linux
Supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms
Drivers for most 3rd party processing environments (e.g. HALCON, LabView, VisionPro, MATLAB, etc.)
Full GenICam support for control and capture
RoHS compliant
Applications: Adding the Aon-CXP to your application is simple with our SDK, which supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. Applications can be developed using C/C++/.NET and our sophisticated buffer management APIs. In addition, free drivers can be download from our web site for most 3rd party machine vision packages. The Aon models are software compatible with each other, as well as with all the other current BitFlow frame grabbers. This makes migrating applications from Camera Link or analog to CXP simple and quick.