Machine Vision

Cameras are used in many industries – especially in robotics and inspection processes. Requirements vary but, in many cases, very high data rates are required to transmit high resolution and high frame rate images from camera to frame grabber or host adaptor.

There are a number of different protocols for image transfer and each of them has their good and bad points. Generally the differentiation is around data rate.

EqcoLogic devices provide transmit and receive functions for the following protocols:

• FireWire or IEEE 1394b – up to S800 (1Gbps) over a single coax cable, with power, or up to S400 (500Mbit/s) over UTP (Cat 5/6 cables)
  See product data on the EQCO875SC coax transceiver and the EQCO400T receiver/equalizer
• Ethernet - Fast-Ethernet (100Mbit/s) and Gigabit-Ethernet (1Gbit/s), with power, over coax cable, using the EQCO875SC coax transceiver
• CoaXPress – the new standard for up to 6.25Gbit/s over coax, with power, using EQCO62T20 for transmission and the EQCO62R20 for receiving high speed data. Low speed control data (up to 20 Mbit/s) data is transmitted back to the camera over the same cable. Power is also transmitted to the camera.