Euresys Coaxlink Quad G3

Highlights

The Euresys Coaxlink Quad G3 is a PCIe 3.0 four-connection CoaXPress frame grabber with a fan-cooled heatsink. The Euresys Coaxlink Quad G3 frame grabber controls the camera scanning rate based on the signals received from a motion encoder. When the parts move faster, the acquisition line rate of the camera increases. When the parts move slower, the acquisition line rate of the camera decreases. Optionally, the Coaxlink board can be instructed to acquire lines only when the object is moving forward or only when the object is moving backward.

Euresys Coaxlink Quad G3 Features

Four CoaXPress CXP-6 connections: 2,500 MB/s camera bandwidth
PCIe 3.0 (Gen 3) x4 bus: 3,300 MB/s bus bandwidth
Feature-rich set of 20 digital I/O lines
Fan-cooled heatsink
Extensive camera control functions
Memento Event Logging Tool

Euresys Coaxlink Quad G3 Applications

High-speed image acquisition for AOI, 3D SPI, 3D lead/ball inspection machines.
Very high-resolution line-scan image acquisition for Flat Panel Display inspection and solar cell inspection
High frame rate image acquisition for inspection machines
Line-scan image acquisition for surface inspection machines
Line-scan image acquisition for textile inspection
The Euresys Coaxlink Quad G3 offers image acquisition for robots
High-speed line-scan image acquisition for printing inspection machines
High-frame-rate video acquisition for motion analysis and recording

Product Specifications

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 standard height, 4-lane or higher, PCI Express card slot
Connectors (Mechanical)

'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' on bracket: 4x DIN 1.0/2.3 female connectors; CoaXpress host interface | 'EXTERNAL I/O' on bracket: 26-pin 3-row high-density female sub-D connector; I/O lines and power output | 'INTERNAL I/O 1' and 'INTERNAL I/O 2' on PCB: 26-pin 2-row 0.1" pitch pin header with shrouding; I/O lines and power output | 'AUXILIARY POWER INPUT' on module: 6-pin PEG power socket; I/O lines and power output | 'C2C-LINK' on module: 6-pin 2-row 0.1-in header; Card to card link
Lamp Indicators

'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' on bracket: 4x bi-color red/green LEDs; CoaXPress Host connector indicator lamps | 'FPGA STATUS LAMP' on PCB: Bi-color red/green LED; FPGA status lamp | 'BOARD STATUS LAMP' on PCB: Bi-color red/green LED
Switches

'RECOVERY' on card PCB: 3-pin 1-row 0.1" header; Firmware emergency recovery
Dimensions

L 167.65 mm x H 111.15 mm | L 6.6 in x H 4.38 in
Weight

180 g, 6.35 oz
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
Interface Standard(s)

CoaXPress 1.0 and 1.1
Connectors (Camera/Video Input)

4x DIN1.0/2.3 CXP-6
Status LEDs

1 CoaXPress Host connection status per connector
Number of Cameras

One 1- or 2- or 4-connection area-scan camera | Two 1- or 2-connection area-scan cameras | Four 1-connection area-scan cameras | One 1- or 2- or 4-connection line-scan camera | Two 1- or 2-connection line-scan cameras | Four 1-connection line-scan cameras
Line-Scan Cameras Supported

Yes
Maximum Aggregated Camera Data Transfer Rate

25 Gbit/s (2,500 MB/s)
Supported CXP Down-Connection Speeds

1.25 GT/s (CXP-1), 2.5 GT/s (CXP-2), 3.125 GT/s (CXP-3), 5 GT/s (CXP-5), and 6.25 GT/s (CXP-6)
Number of CXP Data Streams (per Camera)

1 data stream per camera
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: Gray-scale and color (RGB and Bayer CFA); Single-tap (1X-1Y) progressive-scan | Line-scan cameras: Gray-scale and color RGB
Camera Pixel Formats Supported

Raw, Monochrome, Bayer, RGB, and RGBA (PFNC names): Raw; 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
Area-Scan Camera Control 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.
Area-Scan Camera Control Strobe

Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources. | Support of early and late strobe pulses.
Line-Scan Camera Control 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-Scan Camera Control 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-Scan Camera Control Line Strobe

Accurate control of the strobe position for strobed light sources.
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
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
Input LUT (Lookup Table)

Available for monochrome cameras: 8 to 8 bits; 10 to 8, 10 or 16 bits; 12 to 8, 12 or 16 bits
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 | The LIN and QDC tools outputs can be further processed by the other tools (DIV, MDV, DEL) of the I/O toolbox 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)
Electrical Specifications

DIN: High-speed differential inputs 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
Filter Control

Glitch removal filter available on all System I/O input lines | Configurable with five time constants: for DIN and TTLIO lines: 50 ns, 100 ns, 200 ns, 500 ns,1 µs; 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) from input lines. The composition of the toolset is product- and firmware-dependent: 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. | 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. | 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). | 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.
I/O Toolbox Composition

Firmware-dependent I/O toolbox composition: (to be confirmed)
C2C-Link Description

Allows to accurately synchronize the trigger and start-of-exposure of multiple grabber-controlled area-scan and line-scan cameras. | C2C-Link is able to synchronize cameras connected: to the same Coaxlink 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)
C2C-Link Specification

Maximum distance: 60 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 Coaxlink card or on different Coaxlink cards in the same PC; Less than 265 ns for cameras on different Coaxlink cards in different PCs (3 PCs and 40m total C2C-Link cable length)
Host PC Operating System

Microsoft Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 for x86 (32-bit) and x86-64 (64-bit) processor architectures | Linux kernel versions 3.10 to 4.13, compatible with a wide range of distributions, tested with CentOS 7, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubunto 17.04, for x86 (32-bit) and x86-64 (64-bit) processor architectures | Linux kernel version 3.10.96-tegra, tested with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, for aarch64 (64-bit) processor architecture
APIs

EGrabber class, with C++ and .NET APIs: .NET assembly designed to be used with development environments compatible with .NET frameworks version 2.0 or higher | GenICam GenTL producer libraries compatible with C/C++ compilers: x86 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86 applications; x86_64 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of x86_64 applications; aarch64 dynamic library designed to be used with ISO-compliant C/C++ compilers for the development of aarch64 applications
Momento

Compatible with Memento Event Logging tool
Operating Ambient Air Temperature

0 to +55 °C / +32 to +131 °F
Operating Ambient Air Humidity

10 to 90% RH non-condensing
Storage Ambient Air Temperature

-20 to +70 °C / -4 to +158 °F
Storage Ambient Air Humidity

10 to 90% RH non-condensing