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High-speed by fiber optic

Fiber optic interface with 2,400fps at 8bit resolution

Based on their experiences and existing products, Kaya Instruments developed a fiber optics interface with almost no limits. Optical fiber cables are very flexible, supporting transfers for very long distance (dozens of kilometers) and can be ruggedized. The bandwidth of optical fiber cables is extremely large. When using wavelength multiplexing technology, it's possible to transfer more than 100Gbps over single fiber cable.

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Picture 1 | The 2.1MP camera Jetcam 19 has a fiber optic interface and an extremely high nominal frame rate, which is 2,400fps at 8bit resolution and 1,920fps at 10bit resolution.

What is the ugly truth with the interfaces? Unfortunately, none of the camera interfaces can provide full bandwidth for the next generation of sensors. Camera Link is an old technology and it has limited bandwidth with short and expensive cables.

Bild: M.S. Kaya Vision Instruments Ltd.Bild: M.S. Kaya Vision Instruments Ltd.

The signal processing of GigE and 10GigE Vision require pack and unpack, which makes systems unreliable in terms of packet delivery and real-time. In addition the power consumption is very high, not even talking about the CPU load requirements. HD-SDI cannot do custom resolutions, transfer controls to camera and provide power to camera over same cable. USB3 Vision depends quite heavily on the specifications of the PC, due to data offloading. In addition it cannot really work with cables longer than 3m. The Coaxpress becomes too complex when we need higher than 20Gbps bandwidth (e.g. eight cables needed for achieving 40Gbps data rate), so cables can be big and the total solution is very expensive. Fiber optic cables are much cheaper than other cable types used today (e.g. fiber cable costs around 10 percent of the price of CXP cables and just 1 percent of the Camera Link cables). This is a proven and effective solution, especially because it is widely used in the telecommunications sector. Existing fiber interface solution supports transfer rate of 40Gbps and can be expanded up to 80Gbps with aggregation. The logical utilization of the interface design is very small, taking into consideration the power consumption of the FPGA within the camera. The interface is already integrated into the Komodo frame grabbers and Jetcam series of cameras. The Fiber IP is offered to camera vendors free of charge. So the frame grabbers are available with the Fiber IP as a bundle offer without extra cost.

M.S. Kaya Vision Instruments Ltd.

Dieser Artikel erschien in inVISION 3 2017 - 06.06.17.
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