Area Camera Selection Guide; 3D Camera Selection Guide; NIR – SWIR Selection Guide; Fixed Focal Lens Selection Guide; Telecentric Lens Selection Guide.
BitFlow has been making Camera Link frame grabbers since 1999. With each successive generation of frame grabbers, BitFlow has improve the quality, flexibility and robustness of their interfaces. Meanwhile, much has changed on the backend; PCI to PCIe, Gen 1 to Gen 2, etc. Also the Camera Link Specification had been continuously evolving: 80-bit (10-tap) mode was added, Power of Camera Link (PoCL), new connectors, new tap formats. Even though the specification has been around a long time, it is still one of the simplest, effecient and least expensive ways to get camera data into a computer. It also benefits from 100s of thousands of pieces of CL equipment sold worldwide.
BitFlow has been on top of all these changes and has continuously improved and updated their Camera Link frame grabbers. The Axion-CL is the culmination of all of this improvements, the most powerful CL frame grabber BitFlow has ever manufactured.
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- For more details about these products, visit BitFlow. NorPix is a developer of high-speed digital video capture software specializing in single or multiple camera acquisition.
- Another company known for CoaXPress frame grabbers, BitFlow (Woburn, MA, USA; www.bitflow.com) developed the Claxon (Figure 3), a quad CXP-12 PCIe Gen 3 frame grabber that supports one to four CXP 2.0 cameras. While the speed of data through the frame grabber doubled, the architecture of the board remains the same as the previous generation Cyton, allowing easy migration to newer cameras.
- BitFlow is the leader in Camera Link frame grabbers, building the fastest frame grabbers in the world, with the highest camera/frame grabber densities, triggering performance, and price.
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The Axion-CL also benefits from other products in BitFlow's line up. The Axion-CL uses the Cyton-CXP's backend: the StreamSync DMA engine and buffer manager. A brand new PCIe Gen 2 interface, with DMA optimized for modern (fully loaded, fully busy) computers.