Oncilla Machine Vision Computer – Camera Link

The powerful Oncilla Machine Vision Computer – Camera Link, is a rugged and compact industrial PC that was designed specifically for capturing and transmitting high-quality images and video while leaving plenty of compute power for other processing tasks.

Its features include a 12th generation Intel Core i7 Series processor, 2x PCI/PCIe expansion slots, 2x DDR5 SO-DIMM sockets, and it supports ECC/non ECC type memory, up to 4800MHz, 64GB. Incorporating a FireBird Camera Link 80-bit Frame Grabber including support for PoCL and preinstalled operating system plus Active Silicon software and software development kit produces a complete machine vision system.

Oncilla Systems are designed and thoroughly tested with Active Silicon’s latest software and firmware and are part of the continuing regression testing program for new firmware and software releases. The PC hardware has passed multiple international certifications including those for rail and military industries, ensuring stable and reliable performance in diverse harsh environments.  The system is designed with longevity in mind using long-term availability components and processor, the same system configuration availability is targeted at a minimum of seven years.

Having a known good platform to build a vision system on can save many hours of system integration, and including software as part of the system allows for swift application development. Oncilla Machine Vision Computers include a license for ActiveSDK, Active Silicon’s Software Development Kit. This provides comprehensive example applications and optimized libraries. Coupled with the installed ActiveCapture tool for camera and frame grabber control, they allow rapid system development and integration (separate datasheets are available that describes ActiveCapture and ActiveSDK in detail). Drivers for third party applications are also available such as Cognex VisionPro, HALCON, Common Vision Blox, StreamPix, LabVIEW etc.

The heart of the Oncilla Machine Vision Computer is the FireBird Camera Link 80-bit Frame Grabber. this supports the latest version 2.1 Camera Link specification, including both 80-bit modes: 8-bit 10-tap and 10-bit 8-tap modes – often referred as Camera Link “Deca”, at clock rates up to 85 MHz. The PCIe 2.0 (Gen2) 4-lane interface used on the FireBird is fast enough to cope with the full data rate that the Camera Link Deca interface can support. The FireBird also supports capture from two simultaneous Base Camera Link cameras as well as single Base, Medium and Full configurations.

The Oncilla System with integrated FireBird frame grabber 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. Finally, full GenICam support is provided with the frame grabber drivers and this includes a GenTL Producer for data streaming as well as register accesses. Additional to functions that control the hardware, the libraries include general purpose functions for the manipulation and display of images.

This PC is ideal for machine vision tasks for example in manufacturing, as well as for vehicle awareness, medical, UAV and AI applications.