The Axion can capture all defined Camera Link configurations. You can do specify this directly in the BFML file, or using our BFML file editor CamML.
The Axion’s Camera Link tap re-formatter is capable of handling more than just the pre-defined CL formats. It’s not completely open-ended, but is quite flexible. The out-of-spec formats are also specified in the BFML file (CamML can help here as well)
The maximum baud rate is 921,600 bits/second.
The Axion 1xE has 1 Tri LEDs while the 2xE has 2. Tri LED1 is related to VFG0 and Tri LED2 is related to VFG1
Note the following color/flash rate meanings
Blinking Blue – PoCL “hunt” mode, looking for a camera to see if it needs power
Blue – PoCL power is being provided to camera (this stage does not last long)
Green – Pixel Clock from camera received
Blinking Green – LVAL from camera received
Neon CLB, CLD – MDR
Neon CLQ, Axion 1xE, Axion 2xE – SDR
Camera Link is Machine Vision camera to frame grabber digital interconnect standard. Camera link use a serializer/deserializer to use transmit high speed digital data over a very small number of wires. Camera Link comes in three versions: Base (up to 24 bits), Medium (up to 48 bits), Full (up to 64 bits) and 80-bit (up to 80 bits, duh). The maximum Camera Link data clock is 85 MHz. This means the maximum data rate of Camera Link (using 80 bit mode) is 850 MB/S.
BitFlow’s Neon and Axion families are Camera Link frame grabbers.
Camera Link is standard hosted by the Automate Imaging Association. For more information on the standard please visit https://www.visiononline.org/.
