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X64 Xcelera-CL PX4 Full
PCI Express x4 Frame Grabbers

Advanced PCIe x4 image acquisition
Building on the field proven technology and performance of Teledyne DALSA’s X64 frame grabbers
the new X64 Xcelera Series leverages the PCI Express (PCIe) platform to bring traditional image
acquisition and processing technology to new levels of performance and flexibility.
The PCIe host interface is a point-to-point host interface allowing simultaneous image
acquisition and transfer without loading the system bus and involving little intervention from the
host CPU. Designed with the requirements of the machine vision OEMs in mind, the Xcelera Series
will range from entry level frame grabbers, to high-performance image acquisition boards,
to embedded vision processors.
Addressing the emerging needs of bandwidth-hungry machine vision applications, Teledyne
DALSA’s Xcelera Series is defining next generation frame grabber capabilities with the ability to
deliver bandwidth of 1GB/sec over multiple-lane PCI Express implementations with room to grow.
The X64 Xcelera-CL PX4 Full is a Camera Link frame grabber that is based on the PCI Express x4
interface. Compatible with a Base, Medium or Full Camera Link camera, the X64 Xcelera-CL PX4
Full supports a wide variety of multi-tap area and line scan colour and monochrome cameras. For
greater versatility, the X64 Xcelera-CL PX4 Full board can interface with camera pixel depths and
tap configurations not covered by the Camera Link standard. For example, the Xcelera-CL PX4 Full
can support 10-taps or higher with 8-bits per tap.

Key Features

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•t Half-length PCI Express x4 Board
•t Acquires images from one Base, t
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Medium or Full Camera Link camera
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•t Rapid image acquisition rates up to t
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1GB/s and high-speed image transfer

to host memory at 1GB/s

•t Supports Camera Link operations
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up to 85MHz

•t Extended feature set supports non-t
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The X64 Xcelera-CL PX4 Full has been built within Teledyne DALSA’s Trigger-to-Image Reliability
technology framework. Trigger-to-Image Reliability leverages Teledyne DALSA’s hardware and
software innovations to control, monitor and correct the image acquisition process from the
time that an external trigger event occurs to the moment the data is sent to the host, providing
traceability when errors do occur and permitting recovery from those errors.

Camera Link pixel/tap configurations

•t Windows Vista and XP Professional t
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(32/64-bit) compatible

•t ROHS compliant

Software Support

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All of the frame grabbers in the Xcelera series are supported by Teledyne DALSA’s Sapera
Essential software package. Sapera Essential, is a cost-effective machine vision software toolkit that
bundles board level acquisition and control with advanced image processing capability, featuring a
value added, all new geometric search tool.

decoding and shading correction of t

each input

•t Power Over CameraLink (PoCL) t
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Compliant

•t eledyne DALSA Platform Development
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Advantage – Free Run-time Licensing

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Sapera Essential is designed to deliver the critical functionality needed to design, develop
and deploy high-performance machine vision applications while at the same time significantly
lowering deployment costs.
Teledyne DALSA Platform Development Advantage - Free Run-Time Licensing
The Sapera Essential standard processing tool run-time license is offered at no additional charge
when combined with the Teledyne DALSA frame grabbers. This software run-time license includes
access to over 400 image processing functions, area-based (normalized correlation based)
template matching tool, blob analysis and lens correction tool.
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Some conditions and limitations apply, contact Teledyne DALSA sales for details.