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E2v ELIIXA+ 8k/4k CL User Manual

Manual is about: e2v Cmos Multi-Line Color Camera

Summary of ELIIXA+ 8k/4k CL

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    Eliixa+ 8k/4k cl cmos multi-line color camera user manual.

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 2 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 summary 1 camera overview ................................................................................. 4 1.1 features ..............................................................................................................................

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 3 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 6.3.5.2 automatic calibration .......................................................................................................................................... 36 6.3.5.3 manual flat field correction ........................................

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 4 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 1camera overview 1.1 features cmos colour sensor : o 8192 rgb pixels, 5 x 5µm (full definition) o 4096 rgb pixels 10x10µm (true colour) interface : cameralink® (up to 10 taps at 85mhz) line rate : o up to 50000 l/s in 8k full definition mode o up...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 5 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 1.3 description e2v’s next generation of line scan cameras are setting new, high standards for line rate and image quality. Thanks to e2v’s recently developed multi-line cmos technology, the camera provides an unmatched 100,000 lines/s and combin...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 6 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 2camera performances 2.1 camera characterization unit true color (8k) full definition single full definition enhanced typ. Max typ. Max typ. Max dark noise rms lsb 0.12 1.2 0.11 1.2 0.12 1.2 dynamic range - 2125:1 - 2125:1 - 2125:1 - rms noise (3...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 7 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 2.2 image sensor and color modes the eliixa+ colour 8k sensor is composed of two pairs of sensitive lines. The colour version has been completed with rgb colour filter and disposed as detailed beside. Each pair of lines use the same analog to dig...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 8 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 2.2.2 true colour single mode (tcs) 10µm pixels (r,g,b) twice less pixels than b/w requires x3/2 the data flow of b&w sensitivity half of the tce mode: equivalent to 6 x pixels of 5µm (with their respective colour filters). “full exposure control...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 9 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 2.2.4 full definition enhanced mode (fde) 5µm pixels (r,g,b) same definition than b&w requires x3 the data flow of the b&w sensitivity is the same as the tc mode available : equivalent to 6 x pixels of 5µm (with their respective colour filters). ...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 10 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 2.3 response & qe curves 2.3.1 quantum efficiency 2.3.2 spectral response this response is for a single 5x5µm pixel of each color (true color single or full definition single modes)..

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 11 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 3camera 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 color 12 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 3.2 input/output connectors and led sensor alignment z = -10.3 mm ±100µm x = 9.5 mm ±100 µm y = 62.5mm ±100 µm flatness 50 µm rotation (x,y plan) ±0,15° tilt (versus lens mounting plane) 50µm usb connector for firmware upgrade power connector : ...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 13 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 3.2.1 power connector camera connector type: hirose hr10a-7r-6pb (male) cable connector type: hirose hr10a-7p-6s (female) camera side description signal pin signal pin pwr 1 gnd 4 pwr 2 gnd 5 pwr 3 gnd 6 power supply from 12 to 24v power 7,5w ma...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 14 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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 green and continuous ok green ...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 15 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 3.2.3.1true color (single or enhanced) in base output mode tap1 red red red red red red red red red red red red red red 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 8181 8183 8185 8187 8189 8191 tap2 green green green green green green green green green green green green...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 16 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 in deca 10 taps output mode connector 1 tap1 red green blue red green blue red green blue red green blue red green 1 4 7 11 14 17 21 24 4077 4081 4084 4087 4091 4094 tap2 green blue red green blue red green blue red green blue red green blue 1 4...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 17 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 in medium or dual base output mode connector 1 connector 2 tap4 red red red red red red red red red red red red red red 4097 4098 4099 4100 4101 4102 4103 4104 8187 8188 8189 8190 8191 8192 tap5 green green green green green green green green gr...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 18 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 in deca 10 taps output mode connector 1 tap1 blue red blue red blue red blue red blue red blue red blue red 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1633 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 tap2 green green green green green green green green green green green green green green 1 ...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 19 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 4standard 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 recommends using the same configura...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 21 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 5getting 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 detailed in appendix d there i...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 22 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 6camera 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 genicam standard commcam recogniz...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 23 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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 protocol. The serial line co...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 24 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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) except the camera user id which ...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 25 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 device temperature ( devicetemperature ) : get main board temperature read function : “r temp”; return by the camera : temperature in q10.2 format (8 bits signed + 2 bits below comma). Value is between -512 to 511 in °c. Device serial port selec...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 26 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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 : integer 8192. Can not be written; se...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 27 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 structure of the camera link channels for interfacing base mode : 1 tap rgb 24 bits (3 channels), outputted from left to right. 3x4096 pixels (1 rgb tap) in true color mode 3x8192 pixels (1 rgb tap) in full definition modes dual base mode : 2 ta...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 28 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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 from 0 to 5 write function : “w c...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 29 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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/reverse/external) write functio...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 30 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 6.3.3 acquisition control this section deals with all the exposure, line period and synchronisation modes synchronisation mode ( triggerpreset ) : timed or triggered, it defines how the grabbing is synchronized. This command is available in the ...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 31 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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 of the adc. Then 3 values ar...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 32 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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 corresponding to a gain range of 0...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 33 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 the following gains are enabled by the white balance enable switch : digital red gain ( gain with gainselector = digitalred ) : set the red gain for the white balance. This command is available in the commcam “gain & offset” section : read funct...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 34 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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 prnu (pixel response non unifo...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 35 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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 offset format : s9.1 => -256..+255.5 by step of ½ prnu calibration the user must propose...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 36 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 6.3.5.1activation ffc activation ( ffcenable ) : enable/disable the flat field correction. This command is available in the commcam “flat field correction” section : read function : “r ffcp” : returns the ffc status (0 if disabled, 1 if enabled)...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 37 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 6.3.5.3manual 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 user can access to a specific i...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 38 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 6.3.5.4ffc 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 functions are available in the f...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 39 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 6.3.6 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 standard deviation in this r...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 40 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 for the green red pixels o pixel average value ( green(r)bluepixelroimean ) : average green red level value calculated on whole region of interest read function : “r pavg” : get the average value returned by the camera : unsigned format value : ...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 41 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 6.3.7 privilege level there are 3 privilege levels for the camera : factory (0) : reserved for the factory integrator (1) : reserved for system integrators user (2) : for all users. The cameras are delivered in integrator mode. They can be locke...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 42 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 7appendix 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 : level reaches 255 before switching down to 0 7.2 test pat...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 43 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 8appendix 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. During the first half of this ti...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 44 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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 : tint real = t int + t x - t...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 45 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 9appendix 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 specification is the skew (in picosec...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 46 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 9.2 choosing the data rate maximum line rates tables versus data rate and pixel format data frequency : 85mhz sensor mode base : 3x8bits dual base : 2x 3x8bits full 8x8bits full+ : 10x8bits line rate max (khz) tper min (µs) line rate max (khz) t...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 47 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 10appendix d: lens mounts 10.1 f-mount f mount : kit10 (part number ev71kfpaviva-aba).

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 48 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 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 color 49 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 11appendix 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 blinking green fixed green hardware failure or firmware loading defect. Contact hotline fo...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 50 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 12appendix f: commands 12.1 device control feature cl command description devicevendorname r vdnm get camera vendor name as a string (32 bytes long including ‘\0’) devicemodelname r mdnm get camera model name as a string (32 bytes long including...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 51 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 feature command description w srce 5 set test (output fpga) image pattern to “greyverticalrampmoving”, processing chaine desactivated color selection r cold read the color selection w cold set the color selection. Val : - bit 0 : disables the re...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 52 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 12.5 flat field correction feature commands description ffcenable r ffcp get flat field correction processing status w ffcp 0 disable flat field correction (“false”) w ffcp 1 enable flat field correction (“true”) fpnreset w rsto 0 reset fpn coef...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 53 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 12.7 camera status feature commands description privilegelevel r lock get camera running privilege level 0 = privilege factory 1 = privilege advanced user 2 = privilege user changeprivilegelevel w lock 1 lock camera privilege to “advanced user” ...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 54 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 feature commands description bluepixelroistandarddeviation r pstb get roi stand deviation for blue pixels (format u12.4) bluepixelroimin r pmib get roi min value for blue pixels (format u12.4) bluepixelroimax r pmab get roi max value for blue pi...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 55 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 13appendix g: revision history manual revision comments / details firmware version 1 st commcam compliant version rev a first release 1.0.3 2.2.1 rev b update firmware 1.1.0 2.3.1 rev c true color single change documentation template 1.2.0 2.3.3...

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    Eliixa+® 8k/4k cl color 56 e2v semiconductors sas 2014 contact us online at: e2v.Com/imaging.