General
The EureCard GrabLink Value is an affordable PCI Camera Link frame grabber for costeffective industrial applications. Following the base configuration of the standard, Grablink Value acquires images from one Camera Link compliant camera, single-tap (8 to 16 bits), dual-tap (8 to12 bits) or RGB (3 x 8 bits). Featured for industrial applications such as inspection of high-speed moving objects, web inspection or high-resolution acquisition, GrabLink Value provides a perfect control of line-scan and area-scan cameras, thanks to its system connector.

GrabLink comes with the MultiCam driver, which drastically simplifies its integration into your machine vision application.

Quality control
Semi conductor inspection
On-the-fly image acquisition
High frame rate image acquisition

Acquisition
Up to 24 bits @ maximum 66MHz

PCI Interface
PCI rev 2.2 compliant interface
Support of DMA and bus mastering

Camera Support
Typical configurations supported
          - One 8~16 bit monochrome Single-Top
           Camera
          - One 8~12 bit monochrome Dual-Top
           Camera
          - One RGB triple 8bit Camera
Support of high-resolution cameras,
     typically up to 4096 x 4096 pixels
Area Scan and Line Scan Camera
    Supported

Camera Control
The EureCard Grablink Value is fiitted with a DB9 connector. This system connector allows to control a line-scan or an area-scan camera. The two lines A1 and A2 are optically isolated. TRG is an input that can be used as a trigger, or as a general purpose input. STR is an output that can be used as a strobe control, or as a general purpose output.

GrabLink includes a programmable "rate converter". The encoder signal is received through the System connector, and digitally filtered. The rate converter allows you to accommodate the frequency of the encoder pulses. The line acquisition rate may be programmed either higher or lower than the encoder pulse rate, thus allowing you to keep the same encoder for several applications and always get a perfect square-pixel image.
The "Scan Mode" of GrabLink allows to use line-scan cameras in "Page Mode" or "Web Mode". In "Page Mode", the page trigger event triggers the acquisition of a given number of lines. The system thus behaves as a 2D acquisition system. The page trigger may be internal (software command) or external Frame Trigger input). There is programmable delay between the page trigger event and the actual start of the page. In "Web Mode", the system continuously acquires and transfers lines from the camera, without ever dropping a line.
Multi-tap camera byte-reordering and tap
reversal supported

Frame Buffer
16 Mbyte SDRAM frame buffer


DLLs and ActiveX controls for windows NT/95/98/ME/2000

      GrabLink Value
          Camera Link digital industrial image
          grabbers card.