AMC frame grabber module with PCIe interface

Author

Mielczarek, A. ; Perek, P. ; Makowski, D. ; Orlikowski, M. ; Jablonski, Grzegorz ; Napieralski, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microelectron. & Comput. Sci., Tech. Univ. of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

fYear

2013

fDate

20-22 June 2013

Firstpage

137

Lastpage

142

Abstract

The paper presents the versatile frame grabber with Camera Link interface. The device was designed for plasma observation in thermonuclear reactor, but can easily be used in wide range of machine vision systems. Compliance with AMC and xTCA standards family enables easy scaling of the number of cameras used in system. Adoption of the industry standard PCI Express interface guarantees effortless integration with most of existing xTCA systems. The hardware and firmware design is covered, along with description of test stand in use and preliminary performance evaluation. A strong emphasis is put on analysis of feasibility of the firmware construction and available hardware resources for on-board image processing.

Keywords

cameras; image processing equipment; nuclear engineering computing; nuclear reactor instrumentation; peripheral interfaces; plasma diagnostics; AMC frame grabber module; AMC standard; PCIe interface; camera link interface; firmware construction; industry standard PCI Express interface; machine vision system; on board image processing; plasma observation; thermonuclear reactor; versatile frame grabber; xTCA standard; Integrated circuits; AMC; Camera Link frame grabber; MTCA; PCIe; high-speed image acquisition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES), 2013 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference

Conference_Location

Gdynia

Print_ISBN

978-83-63578-00-8

Type

conf

Filename

6613329