Frame Grabbers

FireBird CoaXPress over Fiber Frame Grabber (4xCOF-12-3PE8)

Part Number: AS-FBD-4XCOF12-3PE8
Product image - FireBird CoaXPress over Fiber frame grabber

Features

  • CoaXPress over Fiber gives high speed data, and camera control all over a fiber optic cable.
  • Using suitable optical transceivers cameras can be situated many hundreds of meters from the control PC.
  • One QSFP+ compliant port allows up to 40 Gbps of data.
  • Fast PCI Express 3.0 (Gen3) 8-lane interface.
  • ActiveDMA engine – acquisition with zero CPU usage.
  • Comprehensive I/O including end bracket I/O.
  • Standard half-length PCI form-factor.
  • Full GenICam support (including GenTL Producer).
  • Supported by the proven ActiveSDK.

The FireBird CoaXPress over Fiber 4xCOF-12 frame grabber is a brand-new member of Active Silicon’s state-of-the-art FireBird frame grabber family.

FireBird is designed for ultimate performance using Active Silicon’s proprietary DMA Engine technology, “ActiveDMA”. This technical innovation applies RISC based processor techniques and guarantees high speed and low latency image data transfers and zero CPU intervention.

CoaXPress over Fiber is an extension of the CoaXPress Machine Vision standard for high-speed imaging in professional and industrial applications. CoaXPress over Fiber allows the CoaXPress protocol to run over a fiber optic cable. The fiber optic cables and connectors needed for transmission are sourced from mainstream Ethernet technology (40 Gigabit Ethernet), this keeps their costs to a minimum and availability plentiful. Using fiber optics for communications has significant benefits where long cable runs are required, or cameras are placed in harsh electrical environments. With the correct choice of optical transceiver module, cameras can be placed multiple kilometers from the frame grabber/PC.

The FireBird CoaXPress over Fiber 4xCOF-12 frame grabber is also available with data forwarding functionality. Here a second QSFP+ connector allows data forwarding (Aurora, CoaXPress over Fiber formats) for daisy-chained data-processing applications.

Specification summary

CoaXPress over Fiber Interface

One QSFP+ transceiver cage. The 4xCOF-12 frame grabber supports:

  • Direct Attach Copper (DAC) cables (up to 1m in length)
  • 40GBASE-SR4 Optical Transceiver Modules – coupled with MTP/MPO connectors and OM3 optical cable the maximum cable length is 150m.
  • 40GBASE-SR Active Optical Cable, the maximum cable length is 150m.
  • 40GBASE-LR Optical Transceiver Modules and a suitable LC-Duplex optical cable the maximum cable length is >2km.

LEDs on the end bracket show the link status according to the CoaXPress over Fiber specification.

Buffer Memory

Up to 4GBytes of DDR4 memory is fitted for buffering between the CoaXPress over Fiber interface and the PCI Express bus.

PCI Express

PCIe 3.0 (Gen3) 8-lane interface to support up to 6.8 Gbytes/sec transfer from FireBird to the PC.

I/O

The following I/O lines are available for triggers, optical shaft encoders, exposure control and general I/O:

  • 4 opto-isolated inputs.
  • 4 opto-isolated outputs.
  • 4 TTL inputs, 5V tolerant.
  • 4 TTL I/O, 5V logic.
  • 4 RS-422 inputs.
  • 4 RS-422 outputs.

All these I/O signals are provided on a 50 way header on the FireBird board.
A 15 way D-Type connector is located on the end bracket and allows access to a subset of the above I/O:

  • 2 opto-isolated inputs.
  • 3 TTL I/O, 5V logic.
  • 2 RS-422 inputs.
  • 1 RS-422 output.

Conformance

PCI Express Interface:

PCI Express Bus 3.0 (Gen3) 8-lane interface to Specification Revision 3.1, with a max payload size of 512 bytes.

FireBird 4xCOF-12 3PE8 supports both Short (32-bit) and Long (64-bit) Address packets.  It also generates Posted Writes for image data, thus achieving transfer rates up to 6.8 Gbytes/sec, subject to host performance.

CoaXPress:

FireBird 4xCOF-12 3PE8 conforms to v2.1 of the CoaXPress specification, and CoaXPress over Fiber Bridge Protocol 1.0.

Approvals:

EU

  • CE-mark for compliance with EMC EN 55022:2010 (class A) and EN 55024:2010 in accordance with EU directive 2014/30/EU.
  • RoHS compliance to RoHS3 directive 2015/863/EU.

US

  • EMC FCC Class A.

The printed circuit board is manufactured by UL recognized manufacturers and has a flammability rating of 94V-0.

Part number Description
AS-FBD-4XCOF12-3PE8

FireBird CoaXPress over Fiber 4XCOF12 frame grabber with four-lane QSFP+ interface and 8-lane PCIe 3.0 interface, supporting:
High-speed QSFP (CoaXPress over Fiber) interface up to 40 Gbits per second line rate delivering 4x CXP-12 data payloads.

AS-FBD-4XCOF12-3PE8-DF

FireBird 4XCOF12 CoaXPress over Fiber frame grabber with four-lane QSFP+ interface and 8-lane PCIe 3.0 interface, supporting:

High-speed QSFP (CoaXPress over Fiber) interface up to 40 Gbits per second line rate delivering 4x CXP-12 data payloads.

With second QSFP+ connector for data forwarding (Aurora, CoaXPress over Fiber formats) for daisy-chained data-processing applications.

AS-ACTIVESDK-xxx

Software Development Kit for xxx operating system (xxx standing for WIN, LIN or QNX).

Cable Solutions

Fiber optic cable solutions are available (please contact sales).

 

Video tutorial - Introduction to ActiveCapture

ActiveCapture is a consumer application for camera and frame grabber control and is provided with all FireBird frame grabbers.

 

FireBird CoaXPress and Camera Link frame grabbers

Frame grabbers from Active Silicon bring real-time, high-resolution image acquisition to your vision system. Learn more about Active Silicon's range of frame grabbers, about possible customization and additional benefits by watching this video:

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