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Eliixa+ 8k/4k cmos multi-line monochrome camera user manual.
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl cmos multi-line camera 2 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 summary 1 camera overview.............................................................................4 1.1 features.................................................................................
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl cmos multi-line camera 3 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3.5 flat field correction................................................................................................................................................ 32 6.3.5.1 activation ...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl cmos multi-line camera 4 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 1 camera overview 1.1 features cmos sensor 4x 8192 pixels, 5 x 5µm multi-line structure and multi-definition using binning : o 8192 pixels, 5x5µm in 1, 2 or 4 lines summation o 4096 pixels, 10x1...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl cmos multi-line camera 5 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 functionality (programmable via control interface) sensor modes : multi-definition, multi-sensitivity 8k pixels 5µ m : multi-lines 1, 2 or 4 4k pixels 10µm : binning 1 or 2 lines 2k pixels 20µm ...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 6 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 dark noise rms lsb - 1,7 2,2 2,4 3,1 3 4 dynamic range - - 2394:1 - - 3412:1 (*) - - 2730:1 (*) - readout noise e- - 5,7 - - 8 - - 10 - full well capacity e- - 13650 - - 27300 - - 27300 - snr db - 40 - - 43 (*) - - 43...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 7 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 2.2 image sensor the eliixa+ 8k sensor is composed of two pairs of sensitive lines. Each pair of lines use the same analog to digital column converter (adc column). An appropriate (embedded) time delay in the exposure...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 8 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 2.4 response & qe curves 2.4.1 quantum efficiency 2.4.2 spectral response response in 8k pixels 5µm 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 36 0 39 0 42 0 45 0 48 0 51 0 54 0 57 0 60 0 63 0 66 0 69 0 72 0 75 0 78 0 81 0 84 0 87 0 9...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 9 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 response in 4k pixels 10µm 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 36 0 39 0 42 0 45 0 48 0 51 0 54 0 57 0 60 0 63 0 66 0 69 0 72 0 75 0 78 0 81 0 84 0 87 0 90 0 93 0 96 0 99 0 10 20 10 50 10 80 nm lsb12b...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 10 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 3 camera hardware interface 3.1 mechanical drawings the step file is available on the web : www.E2v.Com/cameras x y z.
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 11 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 3.2 input/output connectors and led sensor alignment z = -10.6 mm ±100µm x = 9.5 mm ±100 µm y = 62.5mm ±100 µm flatness ±25 µm rotation (x,y plan) ±0,1° tilt (versus lens mounting plane) 50µm usb connector for firmwa...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 12 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 3.2.1 power connector camera connector type: hirose hr10a-7r-6pb (male) cable connector type: hirose hr10a-7p-6s (female) signal pin signal pin pwr 1 gnd 4 pwr 2 gnd 5 pwr 3 gnd 6 camera side description power supply...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 13 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 3.2.2 status led behaviour after less than 2 seconds of power establishment, the led first lights up in orange. Then after a maximum of 40 seconds, the led must turn in a following colour : colour and state meaning g...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 14 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 4 standard conformity the eliixa+ cameras have been tested using the following equipment: • a shielded power supply cable • a camera link data transfer cable ref. Mvc-1-1-5-2m from cei (component express, inc.) e2v r...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 15 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013.
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 16 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 5 getting started 5.1 out of the box the contains of the camera box is the following : - one camera eliixa+ - power connector (hirose hr10a-7p-6s -female) 5.2 setting up in the system the compliant lenses mounts are ...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 17 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6 camera software interface 6.1 control and interface as all the e2v cameras, the eliixa+ cl is delivered with the friendly interface control software commcam.Ucl (as “ultimate camera link”) which is based on the gen...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 18 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.2 serial protocol and command format the camera link interface provides two lvds signal pairs for communication between the camera and the frame grabber. This is an asynchronous serial communication based on rs-232...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 19 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3 camera commands 6.3.1 information these values allow to indentify the camera. They can be accessed in commcam software in the “info” section all these values are fixed in factory and can’t be changed (shaded) exc...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 20 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 • electronic board id ( electronicboardid ) : get pcb board id read function : “r boid”; returned by the camera : string of 32 bytes (including “/0”) can not be written • device temperature selector ( devicetemperatu...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 21 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 • camera status : get the camera status register (32bits integer) read function : “r stat”; returned by the camera : 32bits integer : bit 0 : ( statuswaitfortrigger ) : true if no trig received from more than 1sec bi...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 22 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3.2 image format • sensor width ( sensorwidth ) : get the physical width of the sensor. This value is available in the commcam “image format control” section : read function : “r snsw”; return by the sensor : integ...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 23 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 structure of the camera link channels for interfacing base mode : 2 channels separate, outputted from left to right. 2x4096 pixels each channel (no binning) 2x2048 pixels in binning mode 1sb or 2sb, 2x512 pixels in b...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 24 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 • output frequency ( outputfrequency ) : set the cameralink data output frequency. This value is available in the commcam “image format control” section : read function : “r clfq”; return by the camera : frequency fr...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 25 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 • sensor mode ( sensormode ) : defines the number of line used on the sensor. This command is available in the commcam “image format control” section : read function : “r smod”; returned by the camera : integer from ...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 26 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 • multi-line gain ( multilinegain ) : enables the multiline gain of x0,5 . This value is available in the commcam “image format control” section : read function : “r mlig”; return by the sensor : “0” if disabled (gai...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 27 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 • scan direction ( scandirection ) : set the scan direction for the sensor. This value is available in the commcam “image format control” section : read function : “r scdi”; return by the camera : 0, 1 or 2 (forward/...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 28 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 • test image selector ( testimageselector ) : defines if the data comes from the sensor or the fpga (test pattern). This command is available in the commcam “image format” section : read function : “r srce”; returned...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 29 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 • exposure time ( exposuretime ): defines the exposure time when set in the camera. This command is available in the commcam “acquisition control” section : read function : “r tint”; returned by the camera : integer ...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 30 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3.4 gain and offset analog gain in the adc the only analog gain available in the eliixa+ is located at the sensor level, in the adc converter. This “preamp gain” is in fact a variation of the ramp of the comparator...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 31 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 • gain : ( gain with gainselector = gainall ) set the amplification gain. This command is available in the commcam “gain & offset” section : read function : “r gain”; returned by the camera : value from 0 to 6193 cor...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 32 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3.5 flat field correction how is performed the flat field correction ? What is the flat field correction (ffc) ? The flat field correction is a digital correction on each pixel which allows : to correct the pixel p...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 33 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 how to perform the flat field correction ? Fpn/dsnu calibration cover the lens launch the fpn calibration : grab and calculation is performed in few seconds prnu calibration the user must propose a white/gray uniform...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 34 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3.5.1 activation and auto-adjust • ffc activation ( ffcenable ) : enable/disable the flat field correction. This command is available in the commcam “flat field correction” section : read function : “r ffcp” : retu...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 35 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3.5.2 automatic calibration • fpn/dsnu calibration : o fpn calibration control ( fpncalibrationctrl ) : launch or abort of the fpn process for the offsets calculation. These commands are available in the commcam “f...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 36 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3.5.3 manual flat field correction the ffc coefficients can also be processed outside of the camera or changed manually by accessing directly their values in the camera : this is the “manual” ffc. In commcam, the u...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 37 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3.5.4 ffc user bank management the new-processed ffc values can be saved or restored in/from 4 x user banks. Both gains and offsets in the same time but also the ffc adjust user target and associated gain. These fu...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 38 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3.6 look up table the user can define an upload a lut in the camera that can be used at the end of the processing. The lut is defined as a correspondence between each of the 4096 gray levels (in 12 bits) with anoth...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 39 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 read function : “r lutc ” : read 128 lut coefficients starting from address from 0 to 4095-128. Returned value is the concatenation in hexadecimal of individual lut values, without space between values. (one unsigned...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 40 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3.7 statistics and line profile this function allows the user to get some statistics on a pre-defined roi. On request, the camera acquires and then calculates some key values as the min, the max, the average or the...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 41 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 after performing a line profile measurement, all the values computed which are described below are not refreshed automatically in commcam : you have to right-click on each value and ask for an individual refresh. 6.3...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 42 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 6.3.9 save & restore settings the settings (or main configuration) of the camera can be saved in 4 different user banks and one integrator bank. This setting includes also the ffc and lut enable this function is avai...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 43 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 7 appendix a: test patterns 7.1 test pattern 1: vertical wave the test pattern 1 is a vertical moving wave : each new line will increment of 1 gray level in regards with the previous one. In 12 bits the level reaches...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 44 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 7.2.2 in 12 bits (medium) format – no binning (8192 pixels) an increment of 1 lsb is made for each pixel. When it reaches 4095, turns back to 0 and starts again 250 255 260 265 270 275 280 285 290 295 300 250 260 270...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 45 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 7.2.3 in 8/12 bits full/medium format with binning (4096 pixels) pixel 0 : 32 pixel 1 : 32 … pixel 15 : 32 pixel 16 : 33 pixel 17 : 33 … pixel 31 : 33 pixel 32 : 34 … pixel 511 : 63 pixel 512 : 96 pixel 513 : 96 … pi...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 46 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 8 appendix b: timing diagrams 8.1 synchronization modes with variable exposure time t pix : timing pixel. During this uncompressible period, the pixel and its black reference are read out to the digital converter. Du...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 47 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 if t per is the line period (internal or external coming from the trigger line), in order to respect this line period, the exposure time as to be set by respecting : t int + t pix per then, the real exposure time is ...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 48 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 8.3 timing values label min unit t pix 5 µs t x 3,1 µs t h 0,120 µs t ht t pix µsec t d 1.1 µs 2,5µs tint prog 1,5µs tint real tper min 15µs 20µs 17µs.
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 49 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 9 appendix c: cameralink data cables 9.1 choosing the cable you may check the compliance of your cameralink cables with the transportation of the 85mhz data rate. The main parameter to be checked in the cable specifi...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 50 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 9.2 choosing the data rate minimum line rates tables versus data rate and mode data frequency : 85mhz base 8/12bits medium 8/12bits full 8 tap 8bits full + 10 tap 8bits sensor mode line rate max (khz) tper min (µs) l...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 51 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 10 appendix d: lens mounts 10.1 f-mount f mount : kit10 (part number ev71kfpaviva-aba).
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 52 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 10.2 t2 & m42x1 mounts m42x0,75 (t2 mount) : kit30 (part number at71kfpaviva-aka) m42x1 mount : kit40 (part number at71kfpaviva-ada).
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 53 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 11 appendix e: troubleshooting 11.1 camera 11.2 commcam connection refer to commcam software help for the connection issues. Camera power up 43s no led red led color blinking green fixed green hardware failure or fir...
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 54 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 12 appendix f: revision history manual revision comments / details firmware version 1 st commcam compliant version rev a first release (base mode and quarter balance not available) version ba0 version ba1 1.0.0b 1.0....
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Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl 55 um eliixa+ 8k/4k cl – reva – 01/13 e2v semiconductors sas 2013 whilst e2v has taken care to ensure the accuracy of the information contained herein it accepts no responsibility for the consequences of any use thereof and also reserves the right to change the specification of goo...