BitFlow Karbon-CL PCI Express bus Frame Grabber now compatible with Basler Camera Link Camera

BitFlow recently made the announcement that their Karbon-CL PCI Express bus frame grabber now supports the new Basler A406k 10-tap Camera Link camera. The BitFlow Karbon-CL is the fastest frame grabber in the world, capable of taking in up to 160 bits of data, up to 20 taps, and clock rates of up to 85MHz. The Karbon-CL plugs into the x8 PCI Express bus, and DMA's camera data directly into application memory at up to 1.7 Gigabytes per second. The Karbon-CL has several of every type of I/O to support even the most demanding industrial or medical application.

The Karbon-CL is designed with two main applications in mind. First, in situations where more than one camera is needed, the Karbon-CL can reduce both the system cost and the hardware footprint by its ability to acquire from up to four cameras. Second, in situations where extremely high data rates and/or frame rates are required, the Karbon-CL has been designed to acqcuire up to 160 bits at 85 MHz pixel clock rate and DMA at data rates up to 2.0 GB/S. For example, the Karbon-CL can acquire simultaneously from two 10-tap CL cameras.

KARBON-CL MODELS AVAILABLE INCLUDE:

• KBN-PCE-CL2-D - Supports up to 1 to 2 independent base CL cameras
• KBN-PCE-CL2-F - Supports 1 base, medium or full CL camera
• KBN-PCE-CL2-F-IP4 - Supports 1 base, medium, full or 10 tap CL camera
• KBN-PCE-CL4-D - Supports up to 4 independent base CL cameras
• KBN-PCE-CL4-F - Supports up to 2 independent base, medium or full CL cameras
• KBN-PCE-CL4-F-IP4 - Supports up to 2 independent base, medium, full or 10-tap CL cameras

KARBON-CL Features:

• Half-Size x8 PCI Express Board
• Up to 160 bits input at 85 MHz
• Acquire from four independent Base CL cameras
• Acquire from two independent Medium/Full CL cameras
• Acquire from two 10-tap CL cameras
• FlowThru technology eliminates the need for on-board frame buffers, even with the fastest cameras
• Hardware Bayer matrix decoding (optional)
• Multi-tap cameras rasterized on the fly
• Highly configurable acquisition engine
• DMA at data rates up to 2.0 GB/S
• Supports images up to 256K x 128K
• No frame rate limit
• Independent trigger and encoder inputs for each camera
• Independent CCs outputs for each camera
• General purpose I/O
• Appears to software as four independently programmable frame grabbers
• Supported by the BitFlow SDK on 32 and 64-bit Windows
• Acquire image sequences well beyond the 4 GB barrier
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