BitFlow announces new OEM Analog Frame Grabber Family
For Immediate Release
Woburn, MA - November 6, 2007 - Designed for the Semiconductor and Industrial Vision markets, BitFlow, Inc., a leading manufacturer of frame grabbers , today announced the Alta-AN analog product family. This family can acquire from almost any analog cameras on the market, from high speed asynchronous-reset monochrome cameras to super high resolution color HDTV cameras.
The Alta frame grabbers are affordable, high-quality, flexible, PCI Express bus imaging products, well supported by an easy-to-use SDK, and drivers for most popular software imaging packages.
There are three main models in the Alta family: Alta-AN1, Alta-AN2 and Alta-AN4. The Alta-AN1 has one Virtual Frame Grabber (VFG) and can support one analog camera of any type. The Alta-AN2 has two VFGs and support two cameras, and the Alta-AN4 has four VFGs and support four cameras.
Each VFG is a completely independent frame grabber. This means that each VFG can be configured for a different camera, different triggering mode, different destination buffer and can be in a different acquisition state than the other VFGs. But most importantly, all of the VFGs on one board can acquire simultaneously, at the cameras full frame rate and resolution. Each Alta model is a half size x4 PCI Express board (supporting total data rate up to 1.0 GB/S).
Software Support
The Alta-AN is supported by the BitFlow Software Development Kit (SDK), which is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. The SDK is board family generic, and will work with all of BitFlow's current and future frame grabbers. The kit provides drivers, DLLs and configuration utilities for people interested in using third party software.
For customers interested in developing their own applications, the SDK provides header files, libraries and huge amounts of example code. There is wide range of Application Programming Interfaces (API), from low-level direct hardware access, to high-level automatic buffer management (ring or sequence). Every line of code has been engineered for reliability under the toughest industrial conditions, while at the same time a priority has been put on ease of use and short development times. With the BitFlow SDK you'll have the Alta-AN integrated with your application in no time.
About BitFlow
BitFlow, a privately held United States corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts, is a leading producer of analog, digital and Camera Link frame grabbers. The company also provides application development software for the machine vision industry. BitFlow has shipped tens of thousands of interface boards to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), military, Research and Development, and educational customers since it was founded in 1993.