Speedy board improves camera capture

Vision applications can benefit from increased accuracy and resolution with the NI PXI-1409 multichannel monochrome image acquisition board.

Vision applications can benefit from increased accuracy and resolution with the NI PXI-1409 multichannel monochrome image acquisition board.

PXI combines the high-speed PCIbus with advanced timing and triggering features to provide asynchronous acquisition and easy integration with motion and data acquisition (DAQ) devices.

The new board delivers accurate image acquisition for a broad range of industries, including optoelectronics, biotech, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, and automotive.

Engineers and scientists now can achieve user-configurable resolution with 8bit (256 greyscale) or 10bit (1024 greyscale) acquisition, increasing accuracy from standard and nonstandard cameras.

Because the NI PXI-1409 is compatible with faster analogue double-speed progressive scan cameras at speeds up to 60frame/s, engineers and scientists can perform inspections with increased speed and reliability.

The NI PXI-1409 includes four video inputs to connect multiple cameras and hardware calibration to ensure consistent and repeatable image acquisition.

With the NI PXI-1409 and updated NI-IMAQ driver software, engineers and scientists can easily change the type of camera used in their application, providing greater flexibility when building applications.

They can replace a low-cost RS170 camera with a more sophisticated, higher resolution analogue camera.

The process requires few software changes because NI-IMAQ uses one set of function calls for a wide variety of cameras, including analogue line scan cameras and cameras with slow or variable pixel clock ranging from 2 to 40MHz.

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