The PL-B777F is a high performance 5 mega pixel monochrome Firewire camera designed for a broad range of industrial imaging applications. This camera is based on the Micron CMOS rolling shutter progressive scan sensor with a 1/2.5” optical format. Factory calibrated Digital Pixel Correction and on-board Flat Field Correction (FFC) provides image quality similar to high-end CCD cameras.

Fully IIDC 1.31 compliant, the PL-B777F uses a standard FireWire interface for plug-and-play operation with the host computer.

External triggering and 2 general-purpose outputs provide users the flexibility to synchronize the camera with their processes and illumination.

The PL-B777F has a rich set of features and capabilities all controllable through software. A rolling shutter and external trigger allows for synchronization in demanding machine vision applications. In video mode, the camera can deliver 7 fps at 2592 x 1944, 16 fps at 1600 x 1200 and 63 fps at 640 x 480 all with user-definable region of interest (ROI).Full field-of-view images can be decimated for high-speed transmission. The CMOS sensor architecture provides excellent anti-blooming capability.

The camera has a user-selectable 8 or 10-bit output. Access to external triggering and the 2 general-purpose is supplied via the 9-pin micro D connector. Expensive frame grabbers are not required.

For OEM customers, PixeLINK believes the integration of imaging products with software should be a quick and painless endeavor. That’s why our industry leading Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) uses a common API for all of our cameras regardless of the customer’s chosen interface. Software code developed for one camera model is easily transferred to other PixeLINK camera models saving you time and money. With the SDK, PixeLINK supplies an extensive Application Programming Interface (API) and camera control Graphical User Interface (GUI) for fast and easy application development. The SDK also includes wrappers for National Instruments LabVIEW versions 7.1, 8.0 and 8.2.

The camera’s functionality includes several triggering and GPIO modes for quick and easy integration with strobed illumination and motion controllers. Included is an on-board user-programmable lookup table (LUT) applied in real time and on-board non-volatile memory for camera configuration. Some of the other user controllable camera settings are: gain, offset, frame rate, auto exposure, gamma, color balance and saturation. All of these features, plus many more, are available in PixeLINK’s free demonstration GUI, PixeLINK Capture OEM.