The BAP PCI board can work in two different modes: With direct connection to camera (image grabber mode) and with direct connection to image processing board IE64_HS through piggy back board (data transfer accelerator). The BAP PCI board uses CAT 7 cable to connect to camera or IE64_HS image processing board.
The PCI solution is dedicated for transferring uncompressed images from IE64_HS family boards (Possibility 2 and 3). In case, that the PCI board works with a daughter board plugged on IE64_HS board, the images are completely proceed in IE64_HS but not compressed. One PCI board can support three daughter boards.
The PCI Board can also be used as grabber for a camera (Possibility 1). In this case the PCI grabber receives RAW images from the camera. The images have to be proceeded in Host, e.g. using IPLBV library from BAPis.
It is also possible to use the PCI board with K2 Box (Possibility 3). This approach accelerates data transfer between K2 Box and host. This is suitable for big input files, e.g. from medical modalities and high resolution cameras. The PCI solution allows to support applications which need to be proceed through customized algorithms (fingerprint, face recognition, etc...).
Technical Description:
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Three separate bi-directional video interfaces.
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Each interface supports a duplex video stream transfer up to 1200 Mbps
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Each interface supports a duplex control channel for camera configuration.
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Two operation modes: image grabber (directly capture uncompressed video stream from cameras) or image processing accelerator (with an additional image processing board)
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DMA data transfer based on FPGA
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Driver and DLL for Windows 2000/XP
Advantages:
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As an accelerator board: speeds up capture of uncompressed (or losslessly compressed) images. Supports up to 120 MB/s of already processed image data.
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As an image grabber: is an entry level, basic platform for video data capture without any hardware processing.
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Compatible with variety of BAP image processing boards and cameras (, grayscale, line CCDs, area CCDs, CIS sensors, etc.)
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Supports three bi-directional interfaces in parallel.
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Uses standard Ethernet CAT7 cables for image data transfer