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CompactPCI Frame Grabber

The CP337 is a 3U CompactPCI advanced frame-grabber board. The 32-bit board provides up to four image-input connections and is especially suited for 3-D machine vision, surveillance, and real-time medical image processing applications.

The frame grabber provides high-quality, simultaneous digitization of two monochrome CCIR and RS170 video signals. Non-standard video formats can be interpreted via a camera editor application program that allows the user to define parameter sets. The new PEP frame grabber has 8-bit image acquisition, with up to 16-MHz sampling rates. Image data is transferred in real-time to the host or video memory via a PCI bus using twin DMA channels. Image data can be scaled via an onboard vertical and horizontal interpolation scaler for real-time image reduction, and can be mirrored, or converted to another format in real-time before being transferred to the local or hostęs graphic memory.

The device offers five different synchronization modes and an opto-isolated external hardware trigger for asynchronous image acquisition with a data transfer rate of up to 132 Mb/set for all acquisition modes. Additionally, a write-protection mask secures video RAM areas while superimposing text or graphics onto a moving image. The frame grabber is programmed through Windows NT 4.0 with a Twain driver and application development software that includes a C++ class library, and a language-independent function library.

The price of the CP337 frame grabber is $1182.

PEP Modular Computers, Inc.
(412) 921-3322
Fax: (412) 921-3356
www.pep.com

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