Available towards the end of September 2009, CIS Americas has announced the impending availaibility of their first ever PoCL lite camera, the VCC-GC10V31L.  Weighing less than 20g, encased in a small chassis and about the size of a quarter, this 1/3" CMOS black and white industrial camera is 22mm³ and delivers up to 60 frames per second (fps) at VGA resolution.

Equipped with partial scan and an external trigger, this tiny camera is ideal for remote head applications or any application where space or weight is a concern.

 

CIS VCC-GC10V31L PoCL lite industrial camera

CIS VCC-GC10V31L PoCL lite industrial camera

Power over Camera Link (PoCL) and PoCL lite Standards

Power over Camera Link (PoCL) is a recent addition to the Camera Link specification allowing for camera power to be supplied over the Camera Link cable.  This new standard for adding power was originally proposed by Tokyo, Japan based CIS Corporation which was then later ratified by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA).

Among the benefits provided by PoCL, it allows for easy, single-cable integration and because a separate power connector is not needed, cameras can be made smaller.

PoCL-Lite redefines the PoCL standard using just 14 pins, two of which are used for power, two for shielding, and five pairs of wires to transmit Camera Link data and camera signals.

Because of this, 12 pins of the original PoCL connector are left unused, allowing a smaller PoCL-Lite connector to be used to interface the camera to a frame grabber. Within the five pairs of data signals that are used in the PoCL-Lite standard, one pair is dedicated to camera control, one pair to send serial data commands to the camera, one pair as a system clock, and the remaining two pairs devoted to transferring data between the camera and the frame grabber.

 

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