Two interfaces—GigE and USB—have been dominating the machine vision industry for the last five years. One supports long cable lengths and easy integration of multiple cameras, while the other offers higher bandwidth and true plug-and-play convenience. 

The company celebrated its 20th anniversary last year.

The introduction of the PC and the increasing functionality of integrated circuits created a new market for PC-based single-board computers, frame grabbers, I/O peripherals, graphics, and communications boards—the building blocks of today’s embedded electronics and machine vision systems. 

Do you need to build a system with an imaging component and are you wondering about the simplicity and functionality of CoaXPress? Perfect, because that is the topic of this article.

Since its early days, machine vision has been primarily used to check the liquid level in a bottle, or verify if a packaging label is applied correctly.

The smallest Camera Link frame grabber just got easier to use in an embedded system. Using a half size PCIe mini slot, the PIXCI® EB1miniH is ideal for mounting in an embedded computer chassis. 

BitFlow, Inc. announced it has begun shipment of its widely anticipated Axion™-CL Camera Link frame grabbers, the sixth generation of its acclaimed Camera Link frame grabber line.

Matrox Radient eV-CLHS is one of the first frame grabbers in the industry to support the Camera Link HS M-Protocol through a CX4 copper connection.

The frame grabber is an add-in computer peripheral board designed to capture one or more still frames from a video input source, typically a camera.

The PIXCI E4G2 is a four camera frame grabber with a PCI express x 4 bus. It captures from two 80 bit cameras or four base Camera Link cameras.