Camera User`s Manual
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1. ssss s s 10 INSTALLING SOFTWARE 10 GURIING NIC u 10 11 START e 11 AP DALES u ua uz aaa apus pawa apasi 12 13 IP CONFIGURATOR ssssssssssssssssssssssssss 14 STARTING IP CONFIGURATOR uu u y u oreari 14 USING IP CONFIGURATOR ccccccccccccccecccecccecccecccecccesacesacesacesacesacesacesacesacesactsaetsastsaeesaeesetseesaeesanes 15 FIRMWARE 9 16 STARTING FIRMWARE UPGRADE PFI REA IVa MUR ppNI RSR PSGINUE 16 USING FIRMWARE UPGRADE aa aaa saa sasa sasaqa asqa qasa s saasaqaswaqa PNEU DERI KE 16 ESDK oaren sS 17 17 EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 BUIL2. EVT CAMERA UsER s MANUAL 1 0 1 Power Adapter This accessory is used when no GPIO is needed and thus simply powers the camera It can also be used with the GPIO Breakout PCB Plug the Hirose connector into the camera Hirose port or into the PWR port of the GPIO Breakout PCB a x A Power Adapter w GPIO Breakout The breakout wires are color coded and colors and signal descriptions are documented at the beginning of this section Pins 2 and 8 are not provided but 12V VEXT and GND are provided through pins 1 and 9 for external use Plug the Hirose connector into the camera Hirose port Part number PWR il Part number PWR_BREAK EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 emergent GPIO Breakout Cable The breakout wires are color coded and colors are documented at the beginning of this section Note that the power supply must still be Emergent approved Plug the Hirose connector into the camera Hirose port O Part number GPIO BREAK GPIO Pass Thru Cable For use with the GPIO Breakout PCB Plug the Hirose connectors into the camera and GPIO Breakout PCB CAM Hirose ports Part number GPIO_ PASS EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 GPIO Breakout PCB Connect camera GPIO port to CAM port on GPIO Breakout PCB with GPIO Pass Thru Cable Then connect Power Adapter Hirose connector to PWR port on GPIO Breakout PCB Ec w Part number GPIO BREAK PCB The GPIO example can be suc
3. Polarity TRUE Bool Positive or negative TG Frame Time 16000 us ie or 62 5 fps TG High Time 1000 us ie to set exposure of 1ms TG Frame Time Register Value EE T TTTIUT TT TIM TEST_GEN_SIG TG High Time Register Value Figure 4 This signal can feed other n input triggering signals including its own GPI_n signal EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 Other options of GPO usage are as follows and can be used to synchronize external system components to a camera exposing in Continuous non external trigger mode Each GPO_n signal can be programmed with any of the following options Exposure To alert the system that the camera is exposing Readout To alert the system that the camera is reading out data from the ccd GPO With this option the GPO_n signal will be set by the Polarity signal Test Generator As described above As an alternate to the test generator functionality IEEE1588 will be available in upcoming firmwares and as with all features are field upgradable EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 Document History Version Date Description 29 May 2012 EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1
4. CAMERA USER S MANUAL EMERGENT VISION TECHNOLOGIES INC 1 0 1 May 24 2012 SUITE 239 552A CLARKE ROAD COQUITLAM V3J B C CANADA WWW EMERGENTVISIONTEC COM N Y Amm Qe Table of Contents CONTA e 4 NBzcpiwe Y 5 OVERVIEW e X 6 HARDWARE INSTARLATIOQN ibsurS UNSERE u u L 7 INSTALLING MYRICOM LOG NIC 7 INSTALLING SFP DIRECT ATTACH CABLES INSTALLING SFP FIBER TRANSCEIVERS AND CABLES 8 CONNECTING POWER 2 3 yesdwase winds yecawacesduawanevedawacesiaawaneyedawadesiaawadeseaaes 8 ADJUSTING DACKFLANGE DISTANICE Rat n FIT IN UCIM Vini via dO IAM dO 9 TRIPOD MOUNT cccccceccccsccccccesccenccesceecceecceesceesceenseenceenceesseenseeseeenseenseenseesseeseeeseeesseeseeessessnessneees 9 P 9 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
5. need to be repeated Writing the XML file to the camera is supported but please contact support for procedure and approved XML files Depending on the camera and new or custom features this step should be completed before continuing The ability to update the XML is also exposed through the eSDK However Emergent cameras always ship with the latest well tested firmware and XML file in camera flash so updates are not usually required unless new features are added or custom firmware provided Open anam k gt Computer gt Acer C gt xml Organize New folder x Favorites Name j Date modified Type BEL Desktop Emergent_HS 2000 C_1_0 17 08 2012 5 56 PM XML Document Downloads Emergent HS 2000 M 1 0 17 08 2012 5 56 PM XML Document Recent Places Emergent HS 4000 C 1 0 17 08 2012 5 56 PM XML Document Emergent HS 4000 M 1 0 17 08 2012 5 56 PM XML Document Libraries ES Documents Music i Pictures Videos Comnuter File name v xml Files xml Open EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 J an e visi 0 Start Imaging With above two steps completed expand the GenlCam feature tree in the Device Settings view and expand the AcquisitionControl node Then click the Acquisition Start button to start imaging In this same view one can exercise the full functionality of the camera and make changes to camera parameteres such as area of interest AOI exposure gain
6. offset pixel format and also to utilize special camera triggering modes as described in the EVT Camera Attributes documentation See also GPIO in the Camera Interfaces chapter of this manual for external triggering and other IO activities using GPIO EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 IP Configurator Starting IP Configurator Start the eCapture application as previously described and select a camera to control through the Devices view Then navigate to Device Configuration and IP Configurator Device Information Manufacturer EVT Serial Number 00020001 Mac Address User Defined ID Device IP Address IP Address 192 168 1 70 subnet Mask 255 255 0 0 Default Gateway 0 0 0 0 IF IP Address 192 168 1 20 Persistent IP Address IP Address 192 168 1 70 Subnet Mask 25525500 Default Gateway 0 0 0 0 EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 02 60 dd 00 4e 2 1 Force a Temp IP IP Configurator Use Persistent IP Write Configuration Use DHCP Use Auto IP LLA 5 1 omm e Using IP Configurator Selecting IP Configurator as detailed above presents a dialog wth the following Current IP Settings Current IP Address Current Subnet Mask Current Default Gateway Current Persistent IP Settings Persistent IP Address Persistent Subnet Mask Persistent Default Gateway Persistent Configuration Method Static Fixed DHCP LLA AutolP Optio
7. DING EXAMPLES ccccccesccceccccceccccecccccecncccessceeesntetesceeesectesueceesseeeeneecessteeessteeesstesesstecesneetenss 17 RUNNING EXAMPLES as u L dona uuu RR eee 17 CANMEPERA IINIERPACKES u u o u uu 18 vau s nsn sss sn ns 18 Ll eaten te nsn A 18 cg 19 POCUMENIT AISTORY u uuu 27 EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 Contact Emergent Vision Technologies Canada Headquarters Suite 239 552A Clarke Road Coquitlam B C V3J CANADA info emergentvisiontec com www emergentvisiontec com Emergent Vision Technologies Asia Suite 13 22 Haynes Street Kalamunda WA 6076 AUSTRALIA info emergentvisiontec com www emergentvisiontec com Technical Support info emergentvisiontec com EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 Legal Life Support Applications These products are not designed for use in life support systems Trademarks All trademarks appearing in this document are protected by law Warranty The information provided is supplied without any guarantees or warranty Copyright All texts pictures files and graphics are protected by copyright and other laws protecting intellectual property It is not permitted to copy or modify them for and use EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 amp Overview This document is the User
8. S mount lenses then screw into the end of the barrel Tripod Mount A tripod mount and screws is provided with every camera and can easliy be mounted on top or bottom of the camera using the screw locations shown A cutout is made in the mount for easy viewing of the camera label Z GPIO Please see the Camera Interfaces chapter in this manual EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 Software Installation Installing Software The software installation is quite straightforward Place the provided software CD in the computer and the setup will launch automatically and install the Myricom software and drivers followed by the Emergent eSDK and eCapture software The software requires Microsoft NET 4 0 and if this is not already installed then this is also available on the software CD for convenience For building and running the eSDK examples install Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2010 followed by the Microsoft SDK 7 1 allows 64 bit support Web installation links are also available on the software CD for convenience Note MSVS 2010 includes NET 4 0 Configuring NIC The NIC should be correctly configured if the instructions in the section on Installing the NIC are followed MTU 9000 should be set by default as below i Ge x Myri 10G PCIe NIC with MVA Properties The following properties are available for this network adapter Click the property you want to change on the left and then select its v
9. alue right Value EVT CAMERA UsER s MANUAL 1 0 1 m9 emet visi o mmm eCapture Start eCapture EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 Plug in the camera and power up and configure as described in the previous chapters Start the eCapture application On the left hand side of the main window the Devices view will show all Emergent cameras found during the discovery process Clicking on a camera in this list gains control of this camera which also involves retrieving the camera GenlCam XML feature file and filling in the GenlCam feature tree Device Settings view on the right side of the main window Clicking on the same camera disconnects that camera Clicking on another camera disconnects any other camera already connected and connects the new camera eCapture only connects to one camera at a time The eSDK can be used to connect and stream from multiple cameras Device Configuation Device Confguation Host Settings Be jr None d Y Contro Continuous lll Show Drop Frame Count Device Discovery XML Updates This step can usually be skipped If there is an updated XML file for your camera then use the Device Configuration view GenlCam XML Load feature to locate and use this updated file Note that this is a volatile operation and the updated XML file is not programmed to the camera non volatile memory so after power cycling this procedure will
10. cates that the camera is powered and active This LED will always be steady on whilethe camera is powered Yellow LED Indicates Ethernet Rx and Tx activity EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 GPIO This port is used for carrying the GPIO signals as well as 12V power and ground signals from the Emergent supplied power supply Only use Emergent supplied or approved power supply for connecting to the camera otherwise permenent damage could occur The pin out of this port is as follows 1 GND GND 1 ISO_GND GPO 2 GPO 3 VEXT VEXT NC 4 5 OO N Ui A U N e P mp N PB Ground Ground General Purpose Output General Purpose Output Isolated Ground General Purpose Output General Purpose Output External 12V Power External 12V Power No Connect not connected internally General Purpose Input General Purpose Input Looking into the back of the camera has the pins numbered and colored as follows EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 The schematic of the Camera IO ports is as follows The input ports 4 and 5 are as follows CAMERA PC3H7DJUUDDF GHG Py a l 4 ISO GND USER GND R1 R2 2K The output ports 0 1 2 3 are as follows R3 200R R USER LOAD is chosen depending on USER VCC with the 10mA limit of the interface So for a 24V USER R USER LOAD 24V 10mA 2 4K 240mW package
11. cessfully run with this configuration The 4 GPO LEDs will blink and with loopback alligator clip cables connecting Oto 4 and 1 to 5 at the test point posts the external triggering functionality can be testedalthough there is an option to bypass the external triggeringportion of the example The schematic of the GPIO Breakout PCB is as follows BACK PANEL CONN VENT ve passed from cable POWER PASS THRU WEXT WEXT CN a a 1 Film CONN GPO 0 a FIDUCIAI CONN s rm KC GP 2 GR 4 E FITYLCIAI FI HOLE l FID T I RELET HOLE Fm MHA FIDILX JAI MENT HOLE EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 23 e A isio GPIO Triggering Options EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 External hardware triggering can be implemented in a few different ways using Emergent camera products The system designer can provide an external signal called EXT TRIG in the timing diagrams below and this signal can be connected for example to the GPIO signal 4 to fully control and synchronize the camera exposure to some external process For the timing diagram below and using 4 for this EXT TRIG signal we would set the camera registers as follows Start Exp Mode 4 enum Start Exp Event RisingEdge enum End Exp Mode 4 enum End Exp Event FallingEd
12. ge enum EXT TRIG EXPOSURE Figure 1 For the next timing diagram a user may wish to have an exposure started some fixed time period after the EXT TRIG signal In this case we would additionally set the Trigger Delay register as follows Trigger_Delay 100 measured in us Trigger_Delay Register Value Trigger Delay Register Valuc EXT TRIG pi eee EET EL EET EP ETE EXPOSURE UT 713 TT TT LEE Figure 2 Za eee In the next timing diagram the user may wish to use the internally generated exposure counter but have the beginning of the exposure triggered by an external signal For this we would set up the registers as follows Start Exp Mode 4 enum Start Exp Event RisingEdge enum End Exp Mode Internal enum And again this mode can utilize the Trigger Delay feature if needed to accomplish the timing also shown in this figure Trigger Delay 100 measured in us Trigger Delay Register Value EXT TRIG A EXPOSURE Pee Exposure Register Value Figure 3 Some camera systems may wish to synchronize multiple cameras and yet have no external triggering signal to work with The Test Generator feature can be used to output from a camera GPIO output port a programmable signal in both duty cycle set high time and period For this the registers are set as follows for example to use 0 Mode Test Generator enum
13. ludes all required for the programmer to get up and running using the eSDK and this involves compiling and running the provided examples using Visual Studio Express 2010 The camera interfaces chapter describes all interfaces of the camera and goes into detail for the GPIO interface for those connecting custom hardware to the GPIO connector EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 Hardware Installation Installing Myricom 10G NIC As with the installation of any PCle card the PC must be powered down and the necessary ESD precautions must be observed Both the dual port and single port 10G NICs take a x8 PCle slot they will fit into a x16 slot also The installation of the Myricom MVA driver is quite straightforward Simply run the provided msi installation file accept the license agreement choose the installation directory and the installation will complete and install MVA to all Myricom NICs in the PC This is covered as part of the install script on the provided software CD Installing SFP Direct Attach Cables EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 SFP is a 10G connector standard and is keyed to prevent incorrect insertion Simply insert each end of the SFP cable into both the NIC SFP port and the camera SFP port With the cable completely inserted there should be a clicking sound to indicate it is latched Removing the cables is accomplished by pulling on the provided tab which releases the latching mechanism on
14. ns available to the user are as follows Write Configuration to write new persistent IP settings to the camera Force IP to write and force new IP configuration data into the camera For both the above the new settings change will cause the camera to be disconnected re configured and then re discovered It will then show up again in the Devices view under the new IP configuration The default factory configuration is with DHCP enabled with LLA as a fallback should no DHCP server be available The user can enable and configure static IP as described above Some firewalls prevent LLA so may need to turn off the firewall temporarily to perhaps set a Static IP address that the firewall can be programmed to accept EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 visi omg Firmware Upgrades Starting Firmware Upgrade Start the eCapture application as previously described and select a camera to control through the Devices view Then navigate to Device Configuration and Firmware Upgrade Firmware Binary Using Firmware Upgrade EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 For updated firmware please contact technical support Assuming a compatible firmware upgrade file is available simply select the file for upgrading through the Firmware Upgrade dialog and then click the Upgrade button to begin the short upgrade process The new firmware will take affect upon the next power cycle Intelligence is built in to reve
15. rors and O Warnings to the build console Running Examples Open a DOS window and cd to the project Debug directory and then run the newly built program by simply typing EVT_Devicelnformation The output will look similar to the following ov s Debug gt EVT DeviceInformation Devicelnformation Example program Open Camera Camera Opened DeviceVendorName EVT DeviceModelName HS2000 M DeviceVersion 13 0 DeviceSerialNumber 00010000 DeviceFirmwareVersion 1 20 Close Camera Camera Closed di Debug gt EVT DeviceInformation EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 Camera Interfaces SFP The SFP port is a standard port for 10Gb Ethernet applications SFP stands for Enhanced small form factor pluggable While SFP supports hot plug Emergent at this point do not support this as this feature is more applicable to telecom and less to machine vision applications SFP has some significant advantages over other Ethernet cabling options including a variety of cabling options including Direct Attach which is a copper base solution for reliable transmission up to 10m and Fiber Based Transceiver solutions for significantly longer transmission distances only limited by the available fiber tranceiver technologies Power is not provided over these cables and instead enters through the GPIO connector LEDs Two LEDs are present on the back of the camera and their functionality is as follows Green LED Simply indi
16. rt back to the factory firmware in the event of a power outage or other failure Nonetheless precautions should be taken to not power down the camera overload the network or otherwise while the short upgrade is in progress Depending on the nature of the firmware upgrade it may also be necessary to obtain an updated XML feature file to be used as previously described Emergent cameras always ship with the latest well tested firmware and XML file in camera flash so updates are not usually required unless new features are added or custom work performed visi omg m eSDK Introduction Included as part of the eSDK installation are a number of examples for excercising the camera functionality These examples have been created built and run with Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2010 and the examples are pre configured projects for this build environment Building the examples also requires installing a Microsoft SDK designed for 64 bit designs The examples were tested with Microsoft SDK v7 1 which also provides the necessary NET runtime Building Examples Within VS Express use Open Project and navigate to the Examples directory within the install directory of the eSDK installation and then into the desired example directory ie EVT Devicelnformation and select the VS solution file ie EVT Devicelnformation sln With the project now open select Build to build the project The short process should output O Er
17. s Manual for Emergent Vision Technologies cameras It serves as a ground up reference for getting started and working with our cameras The Hardware Installation chapter includes all required to install the Myricom PCle NIC cables camera and camera power supply It also covers the interfaces associated with the camera such as LEDs and the SFP 10G interface GPIO is postponed until a later chapter Installation of the NIC driver is also covered The Software Installation chapter includes all required to install the Emergent Vision Technologies software under Windows 7 which includes eCapture and eSDK Configuration of the NIC is also covered The eCapture chapter allows the user to get imaging quickly with the camera powered up and configured as described in previous chapters eCapture is Emergent s GenlCam based viewer software which also provides built in functionality such as IP configuration and remote firmware upgrades which are described in later chapters The IP Configurator chapter describes the IP configuration functionality within eCapture which allows the user to set volatile and non volatile IP address and associated subnet mask and default gateway for the selected camera The Firmware Upgrades chapter describes the firmware upgrade functionality within eCapture which allows the user to perform remote upgrades on the camera with Emergent provided firmwares to take advantge of feature adds and other updates The eSDK chapter inc
18. the underside of the connector Installing SFP Fiber Transceivers and Cables Insert the LC fiber into the optical transceiver and then install the completed SFP assembly into the NIC and camera as shown in the previous section CER vx Connecting Power Only use Emergent approved power supplies with Emergent cameras Note that while other cameras use the same connector they do not necessarily use the same pinout Also FCC CE testing was performed using the Emergent provided supplies and some power supplies are better at reducing power line transients than other poorly designed supplies A poorly designed non approved supply can under the right influence damage the camera and will not be covered by the warranty Simply insert the HR12 connector into the camera HR12 port This is a latching connector and requires pulling back on the outer shell of the connector and rotating around until seated Emergent GPIO wiring harnesses are installed in the same manner EVT CAMERA USER S MANUAL 1 0 1 Adjusting Backflange Distance Standard practices apply to adjusting back flange distance but Emergent cameras are equipped with user adjustable distance As shown there are entry points on the side of the front plate to an allan key screw which when loosened allows the camera lens barrel to screw in and out With the barrel in the accepted position simply gently tighten the allan screws to complete the operation Standard C or C
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