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Xcelera-HS PX8

PCI Express x8 Frame Grabbers for HS-Link Interface

Advanced PCIe x8 image acquisition
Building on the field proven technology and performance of Teledyne DALSA’s Xcelera-CL frame
grabbers, the Xcelera-HS 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 involving little intervention from the host CPU. Designed with the requirements of
the machine vision OEMs in mind, the Xcelera-HS PX8 combines HS-Link interface with onboard
preprocessing functions such as shading correction, Bayer decoding etc.
Addressing the emerging needs of bandwidth-hungry machine vision applications, Teledyne
DALSA’s Xcelera HS Series is defining next generation frame grabber capabilities to deliver image
acquisition bandwidth of 1.8GByte/sec and host transfer bandwidth of 2GByte/s over multiple-lane
PCI Express implementations with room to grow.

Xcelera-HS PX8

Key Features
• S-Link Interface - Next generation image
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•mage acquisition at rates up to
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The Xcelera-HS PX8 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.

1.5GByte/s
• ltra compact, field proven CX4 cable and
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Software Support

connector
• edicated communication channel
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supports data rates up to 300MByte/s
(600MByte/s total)
• uilt-in support for data forwarding for
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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.

distributed processing
• upports Windows 32/64-bit ,
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Windows 7 , Windows XP , and Windows
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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.

•t ROHS compliant

The HSLink interface is a new machine vision connectivity interface pioneered by Teledyne DALSA.
HSLink is designed specifically to meet the needs of all machine vision applications and therefore
carries image data, configuration data and low jitter, real time triggering signals over a simple
network topology supporting cameras, intermediate devices and frame grabbers. The interface has
taken the key strengths of Camera Link, and added new features and functions. HSLink delivers
scalable bandwidth of 300 to 6000 Mbytes/s, 1x to 20x configurations while using globally available,
off-the-shelf components.
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For more details specifications download HSLink whitepaper at www.teledynedalsa.com/hslink