Optronis introduces new CamPerform with CoaXPress Standard

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Miniaturised products, high piece numbers, extremely short clock intervals and faster speeds are presenting ever greater challenges for quality assurance. CamPerform, however, the machine vision camera from Optronis, is happy to take them on. Configured with a CoaXPress interface, it is ideal for the fastest data transfer rates in camera-aided 2D/3D real-time quality assurance.

CoaXPress allows data to be transferred to connected process computers at speeds of up to 25 GigaBit per second via four coaxial cables. That makes CoaXPress one of the most powerful standardised image processing interfaces of the present day and is the reason why the use of machine vision cameras with this real-time interface has firmly established itself for the quality assurance of high-end applications. Optronis is now offering the CamPerform with the new CoaXPress Standard 1.1, enhancing the robustness of the camera still further.

New CoaXPress Standard even more robust

Compared with the 1.0 version, the new CoaxPress Standard 1.1 essentially offers an upgraded data transfer protocol, which improves the transfer quality of the data in particular. The 1.1 standard is backwards compatible with the 1.0 standard. Multiple meanings in cyclical redundancy (CRC), for instance, have been eliminated in 1.1. The General Purpose I/O (GPIO) that was still in 1.0 has been removed from 1.1 due to the lack of acceptance. Important new features of 1.1, however, include DIN connectors, which can replace the previous BNC connectors. DIN connectors have the advantage of being smaller and more compact than BNC connectors. They also enable the camera to be connected directly with a single (4-pin) connector. Requirements on the transceiver (physical layer) responsible for the transfer have also been reduced in 1.1 compared with 1.0.

More security through standardisation

The new CoaXPress Standard 1.1 was laid down as a global standard in a G3 agreement in the course of last year by the AIA (Automated Imaging Association), EMVA (European Machine Vision Association) and JIIA. “The standardisation of CoaXPress keeps being refined and enhanced by the members of the G3 agreement. Optronis has also been collaborating actively in the technical development”, reported Bernd Reinke, head of the Industrial Cameras Business Unit at Optronis GmbH. “We attach great importance to standardisation and transparency so that we can give our customers security in product selection”, Reinke added.

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