PC-based machine vision systems are becoming more and more popular due to many factors, including fast Pentium processors, highspeed PCI bus and more robust operating systems. Today's machine vision applications offer higher productivity, flexibility, reliability and capable to perform more complicated inspection tasks.

In order to provide a solution for machine vision, ADLINK has designed a hardware solution call the 'Angelo'. The Angelo provides the best performance to cost ratio for standard video input (PAL/NTSC/CCIR/EIA) applications and by combining hardware and software, from EureSys, and camera solutions from BASLER and Hitachi, a more competitive vision package solutions is available from ADLINK.

There are four different series of frame grabber cards available at ADLINK. The Angelo series provides 4 channels of real-time capture and includes PMC, CompactPCI, and PCI bus models. The Picolo provides four different model types for multiplexing image acquisition. The Domino series supports analog industrial cameras with progressive area scanning and the GrabLink series support digital Camera Link standard line-scan / area-scan / color / monochrome cameras image acquisition.