BitFlow Announces Support for CVL (Cognex Vision Library) Software Developer's Kit
For Immediate Release
Friday, May 14, 2009 - Worburn, MA - BitFlow is very pleased to announce that it now supports Cognex Corporation's CVL Software Developer's Kit with its Camera Link and Analog camera frame grabbers. For the first time, anyone that develops applications using Cognex's CVL can select any of BitFlow's powerful frame grabbers when building advanced camera based systems. BitFlowframe grabbers support all Area and Line scan Camera Link and machine vision Analog cameras.
The CVL (Cognex Vision Library) Software Developer's Kit lets users develop powerful C++ solutions for advanced machine vision applications. CVL provides the lowest level access to Cognex's advanced vision tools. It's designed for professional programmers who need to define custom tools or perform specialized vision functions such as pixel-level processing and complex image buffering. CVL also includes many advanced tools specifically targeted at the semiconductor and electronics industries. In addition, customers who use application specific packages can utilize CVL to extend their applications.
BitFlow frame grabbers are the fastest and most capable frame grabber in the world, with the highest camera to frame grabber densities in the industry. For example, the Karbon-CL2 is capable of taking in up to 80 bits of data, up to 10 taps, clock rates of up to 85MHz, up to 2 Camera Link cameras, and DMA's the camera data at up to 850 Megabytes per second directly into application memory. The Karbon-CL4 can capture camera data at two times the Karbon-CL2's speed!
BitFlow also manufactures one of the least expensive Camera Link frame grabbers, the Neon-CL, which supports all Base Camera Link and PoCL cameras in one PCI Express bus slot.
Together Cognex software products and the BitFlow frame grabbers are ideal for designing and implementing industrial, factory floor applications such as printed circuit board inspection, flat panel display inspection, wafer inspection, bonding inspection, die placement, solder paste placement, 3D measurement, document processing, lumber processing, food processing, and postal sorting.
These same BitFlow frame grabbers also work with Cognex VisionPro. BitFlow provides Cognex drivers at no cost to their customers.
About Bitflow
BitFlow has been developing reliable, high-performance Frame Grabbers for use in imaging applications for the past 16 years. BitFlow is the leader in Camera Link frame grabbers, building the fastest frame grabbers in the world, with the highest camera/frame grabber densities, triggering performance, and price. With thousands of boards installed throughout the world, into hundreds of imaging applications, BitFlow is dedicated to using this knowledge and experience to provide customers with the best possible image acquisition and application development solutions. BitFlow, located in Woburn, MA, has distributors and resellers located all over the world including Asia, Japan, and Europe. Visit our website at http://www.bitflow.com.
About Cognex Corporation
Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets machine vision sensors and systems, or devices that can "see." Cognex vision sensors are used in factories around the world to automate the manufacture of a wide range of items and to assure their quality. Cognex is the world's leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 450,000 machine vision systems, representing over $2.5 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, Cognex also has regional offices and distributors located throughout North America, Japan, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Visit Cognex on-line at http://www.cognex.com.