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Frame grabbers accelerate image acquisition

A Stemmer Imaging product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Aug 8, 2005

One problem with PC and proprietary imaging systems has been their limited storage capacity.

One problem with PC and proprietary imaging systems has been their limited storage capacity.

However, the ever-increasing capabilities of PC technology have made large amounts of storage cheap and readily available, with 400Gbyte hard drives now commonplace, allowing well over one million standard resolution images to be saved with room to spare.

Fast SATA drives and RAID arrays allow very fast datarates but until now the limitation has been the bandwidth of the PCIbus.

With the advent of 64bit PCI technology this limitation has been breached.

Using the new Dalsa Coreco X64 range of frame grabbers, datarates up to 210Mbyte/s can be achieved, and up to 240Mbyte/s if two X64s are used.

When combined with a suitable SATA raid array, the large volumes of data can be recorded to hard disk in real time, for image analysis or archival purposes.

Application areas for this technology include: sports technology, high end security, traffic monitoring and multiframe image analysis.

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