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News Release from: Alrad Instruments | Subject: Alta-AN1, Alta-AN2 and Alta-AN4 frame grabbers
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 23 April 2008
Frame grabbers suit varied cameras
The Alta frame grabbers are flexible PCI Express bus imaging products, supported by an easy to use SDK and drivers for most popular software imaging packages.
Alrad Imaging has released the Bitflows Alta-AN frame grabber for flexible machine vision applications The Alta-AN series is an affordable, versatile analogue capture board product family for semiconductor and industrial vision OEMs
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 18 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Alta frame grabbers are flexible PCI Express bus imaging products, supported by an easy to use SDK and drivers for most popular software imaging packages.
There are three main models in the Alta family: Alta-AN1, Alta-AN2 and Alta-AN4.
The Alta-AN1 has one virtual frame grabber (VFG) and can support one analogue camera of any type.
The Alta-AN2 has two VFGs and supports two cameras and the Alta-AN4 has four VFGs and supports four cameras.
Each VFG is a completely independent frame grabber.
This means that each VFG can be configured for a different camera, different triggering mode and different destination buffer and can be in a different acquisition state than the other VFGs.
All of the VFGs on one board can acquire simultaneously, at the camera's full frame rate and resolution.
Each Alta model is a half-size x4 PCI Express board, supporting a total data rate of up to 1.0Gbyte/s .
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