BitFlow Inc. has announced the sixth generation of its Camera Link frame grabbers: the Axion-CL.
“BitFlow has been making Camera Link frame grabbers since the specification was first released in 1999,” said Donal Waide, director of sales and marketing for BitFlow. “In the years since then, Camera Link has proved itself to be low cost, high speed, robust, and adaptable, and has become the market’s leading interconnect standard. Everything we have learned about making superior Camera Link frame grabbers, plus many refinements from the suite of CoaXPress products, has been rolled into the new Axion-CL.”
Built on the same half-size x8 PCI Express Gen 2.0 board as the company’s Cyton CXP CoaXPress frame grabber, the Axion-CL exploits many of the features of the Cyton, including the Cyton’s highly optimized DMA engine, StreamSync acquisition engine, and buffer manager, along with its timing sequencer, I/O capabilities, and Frame Sequence feature.
BitFlow engineered the Axion-CL to be fully compatible with every high-speed Camera Link camera available. Importantly, it can easily handle today’s advanced 80-bit cameras. In fact, it can acquire from two 80-bit/85-MHz cameras simultaneously. Also, all base/medium/full Camera Link cameras are supported.
Incorporation of the Axion-CL into an application is simple with BitFlow’s SDK, which supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. Axion-CL software is compatible with current BitFlow frame grabbers.
The new BitFlow Axion is Camera Link 2.0 compliant.
