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1. NN W W Target Audience This camera is designed for use by technicians engineers and scientists In case of any questions or comments please contact us at PCO telephone 49 0 9441 2005 50 fax 49 0 9441 2005 20 email info pco de postal address PCO AG Donaupark 11 93309 Kelheim Germany The cover photo shows an exemplary PCO camera system The lens is sold separately Copyright 2015 PCO AG called PCO in the following text Kelheim Germany All rights reserved PCO assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in these materials These materials are provided as is without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability fitness for a particular purpose or non infringement PCO further does not warrant the accuracy completeness of the information text graphics links or other items contained within these materials PCO shall not be liable for any special indirect incidental or consequential damages including without limitation lost revenues or lost profits which may result from the use of these materials The information is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of PCO in the future PCO hereby authorizes you to copy documents for non commercial use within your organization only consideration of this authorization
2. For optimized synchronization minimized jitter time use the falling edge of the line signal at the status output see SDK description 18 pco 6 2 2 GLOBAL SHUTTER NOTE Global Shutter is only available for pco edge 5 5 Camera Link and under development for 6 Me 0 e oN Slate 5 5 USB Timing Exposure 00 001 000 000 2 v amp ms usns Delay 2 SNS USS FPS based Timing Frame Rate 0100000 2 v kHz Hz mHz Exposure 90 001 000 000 4 SMS USS FPS based First all pixels are globally reset and these reset values are shifted into so called diffusion nodes From there they are non destructively read out into memory as reset dark images The exposure starts after transfer of the reset dark image to the diffusion nodes where they are stored on the chip The exposure is stopped by global charge transfer to the diffusion nodes Then the exposure image is read out to the memory where the former reset dark image is subtracted to perform an external correlated double sampling which reduces the noise Since two images have to be read out to receive one resulting image the sCMOS image sensor s Global Shutter mode has only half of the frame rate of the Rolling Shutter mode LI EELT ELEME LEE IG LI diadema du LLLI 5 p E DUM 2 4 7 I im m a 22 77 7 a s v na hex SAN E Readout
3. Global GS This table shows an overview over all available camera models Type Interface Shutter Read Out FPS Sensor Frequency Max 110 MHz 95 3 MHz slow scan 272 3 MHz fast scan 110 MHz 86 MHz under development 95 3 MHz slow scan 286 MHz fast scan 286 MHz fast scan 95 3 MHz slow scan 286 MHz fast scan 86 MHz under development mono mono mono mono mono amp color mono amp color mono amp color pco 2 SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 2 SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Please read the safety instructions completely Never operate the camera in humid or dusty environments or in places with high amounts of X ray radiation Humidity dust or X rays could damage the camera To avoid the risk of water condensation protect the camera against extreme changes of ambient temperature If condensation enters the camera there is the risk of electric shock To prevent damage to the camera the system must be kept stable and protected against strong jolts or vibrations The socket at the bottom of the camera is to be used for mounting purposes only Electric shock warning Never slide any items through slits or holes into the camera because of the risk of electric shock if the voltage parts inside are touched Each time the camera is used check the power cable for any damage Never position the cable in a way that it could become a tripping hazard Do n
4. License Board Flash Selected Board s Showlog Close Then click on Yes when you re asked to proceed You must power cycle your computer after the upgrade In case the firmware version is ok please click on Test Performance ww microDiagnostics Version 5 2 2 babak It is mandatory that File Diagnosis Tools Info PC le is High speed a Capable is shown Type BoardID Serial Firmware Version Driver Version License Security code PCI Express Speed microEnable IV VD4 CL 0xa44 0 A449040B 147 hex 1 2F 41 015 Win64 Dual VA SMA 0 1 not present x4 Otherwise the board is probably not able to transfer the necessary data rate Applet Board Performance Firmware Transfer Rate Unit Megabyte MB w PCIe is Highspeed capable The transfer rates as shown should be _ 1600 QO displayed 1200 i i onma k ak For further information 80 peu or assistance with m Era mainboards please 108839 fs m contact our support C 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 team Image side size Pixel FullareaGray8_HS dll gt DMA0 gt FG_GRAY x Rum Runa Test Applets TestBoard Test Performance License Board Flash Selected Board s Showiog Close 55 pco 5 CAMERA LIN gt A5 3 IMAGE DATA FLOW The sCMOS image sensors provide an extremely high frame rate compar
5. Reset Exposure Timing The exposure and delay time can be adjusted in steps of 10us Camera GS only pco edge 5 5 10 us 100 ms 15 5 camera will optimize the image recording to achieve the selected frame rate with chosen exposure time as close as possible e Only for Auto Sequence trigger mode e and only available with Camera Link Interface First the frame rate is set If the time required for readout of the image is longer than 1 frame rate then the frame rate will be reduced to 1 frame rate be adjusted steps of 1 mHz Global Shutter If the selected exposure time would require a lower frame rate the exposure time is cut to the maximum possible time at that frame rate Camera GS only Frame rate FPS Based Camera 50 Hz 286 MHz Link pco edge 5 5 10 us 100 ms 19 pco 6 CAMERA CONTROL External Exposure Start Auto Sequence respectively Trigger in Busy out Exposure out Reset T t frame Number of lines 286 MHz fast scan i 1 0 9 17 us iue ROI y 10 00 ms max is programmable 10 us 100 ms system lame m b 1 9 17 us The listed parameters can be output via SDK function Get Image Timing dependend on the selected ROI NOTE If lt trame System delay tg is added before exposure starts 20 pco External Exposure Control Trigger in Bus
6. The term binning comes from scientific CCD image sensors The prominent feature of charge coupled devices CCD is the lossless transport or shifting of charge packages until an amplifier circuit converts them into a voltage at the output where the main readout noise contribution occurs If charge packages from two or more pixels are added before they are read out past the output amplifier because of very low light signals this process is called binning Since the signal is increased before it is read out and the image sensor s readout characteristics remain unchanged binning improves the SNR and the image sensor s resolution is reduced The lossless transport feature of CCD image sensors makes binning possible Binning in CMOS image sensors In general binning is not possible in CMOS image sensors because voltages are processed and no charges are transported In each pixel the light generated charges are converted into voltages with the readout noise contribution of these amplifiers Therefore as opposed to CCD image sensors if these voltages were combined the readout noise would also be combined which would not have the same positive effect on the SNR Nevertheless such a summation or even an averaging would be beneficial for the SNR but with a smaller impact compared to CCD image sensors Since such CMOS binning cannot be done within the image sensor it either has to be done in the camera or in the computer CMOS binnin
7. pou J Align to MSB F High quality MSB each pixel value is shifted from bit 12 1 to bit Raw 1 bit RGE 16 5 in case of 12 bit This removes the dark image effect inside other image applications ASCII file separator Fifa buffer size TAB Wimages 10 Tiff File Settings RAW 16bit RGB Here you can select whether the 16bit RGB tiff file is saved with 16bit raw or white balanced data If this item is checked each 16bit RGB pixel value is saved as raw 16 bit RGB 48 bit value without M white balancing Saving to 16bit RGB can be done ae by selecting the color display window export JA recorder selecting 8bit tiff and checking Save 16bit RGB Preserve Last Record Use Digits For Filename ASCII file separator Here you can select an appropriate separator for the ASCII file format JPEG File Settings Here you can select the quality of the saved jpeg jp2 files high quality saves images with 10096 quality otherwise 8596 quality Preserve Last Record If checked a message box will pop up in case the user may overwrite or loose data 34 pco Options Use six digits for filename If you record a sequence of b16 files and choose direct record to file Direct Record To File CamWare is always using six digits for filename e g t 123456 b16 Record with Flowfile Exit View Settings Image Browser Here you can select between showing all image tiles inside the browser window either
8. Use the falling line edge for optimized synchronization minimized jitter time see page 18 Filter electrical interference filters Polarity Type active for high low signal TIL Electrically grounded no opt or rising falling edge coupler 3 9Volt LVTTL out short time short circuit proof Continuous overvoltage withstand 10V and 5V 1ms pulse overvoltage withstand 33V and 33V ESD pulse 4kV Maximum low level 0 8V Minimum high level 2V Slew Rate 1ms V 29 pco 6 CAMERA CONTROL Rolling Shutter Signal Type At the l O signal tab Rolling Shutter signal type options are available only Status Exposure and if Shutter is set to Rolling Shutter see Setup 7 4 120 Signals Sensor Bize Sensor Misc Type Filter Polarity Exposure Trigger TTL nang Acquire Enable TTL high Status Busy TTL high v Show time of First Line high Show common time of All Lines pco edge 5 5 rolling shutter 25605 Show time of Last Line Show overall time of All Lines There are four signal types available Shows the exposure time of the first rolling shutter line t Shows when all sensor lines are integrating Shows the exposure time of the last rolling shutter line t e Shows if any sensor line is integrating t start reset first line M start readout first line end reset last line end reset last line poc read
9. Wem Karana I n E o c Cal 13 138 14 L1 UE a If you need to change exposure time e g the image is still either too dark or too bright please go to chapter 6 1 If you want to record and save images please see chapter 6 and chapter 7 for detailed information Screenshot shows color camera Te Hai cec dp d E BI ag imar Ou NOTE Live preview Useful for fast and easy camera adjustment and focusing This command disables the Camera Control window if it is opened except exposure time setting 11 6 CAMERA CONTROL 6 CAMERA CONTROL The Camera Control window in CamWare is the main interface for all camera settings For further CamWare features please see chapter 7 6 1 THE CAMERA CONTROL WINDOW Peal CamWare V3 13 File Camera Acquisition View 2 The camera control window can be opened by selecting the T proper command in the Camera Menu or by the corresponding button in the toolbar Camera Control The camera control dialog always adapts to the camera type connected For the pco edge the camera control settings are spread over five property sheets Timing Sensor Size Sensor Misc 120 Signals Delay 0 000000 Exp 10 000000 which will be explained at the next pages is 2008 Changes to the camera control sheets PERAL pes as must b
10. first contact your local dealer or PCO respectively When shipping the camera for repair be certain to carefully pack the camera with proper shipping materials If possible use the original packaging Use the protection cap to protect the camera on the lens thread Firmware Software and Driver Update You will find all necessary software and drivers on the accompanying USB storage device For the latest versions please check our website http www pco de support supportProducts scmos cameras 65 pco ABOUT PCO ABOUT PCO ub d In 1987 PCO was founded with the objective to develop and to produce specialized fast and sensitive video camera systems mainly for scientific applications Meanwhile the product range of PCO cameras covers digital camera systems with high dynamic range high resolution high speed and low noise which are sold in the scientific and industrial market all over the world Currently PCO is one of the leading manufacturers of scientific cameras Worldwide representatives together with our own sales department and technical support assure that we keep in touch with our customers and their needs The actual wide range of specialized camera systems is the result of technical challenge and product specific know how A design according to advanced techniques a high standard of production and strict quality controls guarantee a reliable operation of the cameras Our own developments in conjunction w
11. Bus Hostcontroller gt cs Laufwerke b A M use und andere Zeigeger te gt i Monitore 4 Multifunktionsadapter j Silicon Software microEnable IV VD4 CL gt MP Netzwerkadapter gt te PCO cameras gt Prozessoren gt Sneichercontroiler 54 pco 5 2 MICRODIAGNOSTICS TOOL How to use microDiagnostics Tool W microDiagnostics Version 5 2 2 babai PI ease ve rify th File Diagnosis Tools Info fi rmware ve rSIO n 3 ias which must be 1 40 Type BoardID Serial Firmware Version Driver Version License Security code PCI Express Speed microEnable IV VD4 CL 0xa44 0 A449040B 1 47 hec 1 2f 44 0 15 Win64 Dual VA SMA 0x11 not present x4 1 28 In hex Or above x To test the board select the board in Hardware and click perfomance Test Board Test Status Progress Control Result PCle Frequency Test Finished gt Onm Register Read Write Finished gt 5 0 Test Finished gt 5 A OMAS Tes ver os If the firmware is not inishe 1 Test Finished 5 1 40 1 28 in hex RAMB 0 Test Finished om RAMB 1 Test Finished 2 please upgrade to the Performance Test Finished gt on latest firmware Select Flash Board s then select the grabber in the dialog and open o a e the appropriate file Test Applets TestBoard TestPerformance
12. FILE FORMATS A8 IMAGE FILE FORMATS There are different file formats available for saving camera images with CamWare b16 The 616 16 bit format is similar to the bmp format However 16 bit pixel values are used instead of 8 bit pixel values The file format consists either of a Basic Header 6 Long parameter or of an Extended Header 32 Long parameter the latter of which is optionally for additional information There might follow a variable comment field ASCII code Finally there is the actual data set that is saved linearly as in the case of BMP files With the exception of the first value all parameters are Long Integers 4 Byte The first 6 parameters must always exist The rest of the parameters as well as the comment field are optional Parameter Function 1 the first 4 byte are the characters 2 file size file size in byte 3 header length header size comment filed in byte 4 image width image width in pixel 9 image height image height in pixel 6 extended header 1 true extended header follows 7 color mode 0 black with camera 1 color camera 8 b w min black white LUT setting minimum value 9 b w max black white LUT setting maximum value 10 b w linlog black white LUT setting 0 linear 1 logarithmic 11 red min red LUT setting minimum value 12 red max red LUT setting maximum value 13 green min green LUT setting minimum value 14 green max green LUT setting maximum value 15 blue min
13. Moise Filter orf z pco edge 5 5 gold 256052160 col na doubleshutter 1 Oe 6 Pixels O46 e count 30 Actual 20 0 Cooling Setpoint 9 If a pco edge gold camera is connected a drop down menu with selectable sensor temperatures will appear Display of sensor temperature peltier cooling unit is used to keep the sensor s dark current to an acceptable minimum and in order to allow for a continuous operation free of any drift phenomena in image sequences Either an internal fan or an external water cooling system assures proper heat transfer from the peltier element to regulate the temperature of the cameras Camera Interface Sensor temperature pco edge 4 2 5 5 pco edge 4 2 5 5 pco edge gold 4 2 pco edge gold 5 5 6 5 THE RECORDING TAB CameraControl Timing Sensor Size Sensor Misc Recording 1 0 Signals Recorder Mode Timestamp Sequence stamp J Binary 2 Binary ASCII ASCII Ring Butter Acquire Mode External Sequence trig 5 5 gold 256052160 b w na doubleshutter 26 Accept 2 Camera Link 5 9 USB 3 0 0 C USB 3 0 196 30 C water cooling only Recorder Mode CamWare will use free RAM space on your computer The recorded images will be temporally saved as 16bit multi TIFF In Sequence mode the recording stops when RAM space is full In Ring Buffer mode the camera will
14. PCI Card with 4 x USB 3 0 connections is also available contact PCO for further details A PCle x4 slot is necessary for this card Power Supply Your system will be equipped with either a 24 V or a 12 V power supply depending on the model you selected connector Lemo FGG OB Cable CameraLink Cable picture or USB A USB B cable 5m Digital Camera Tools USB storage device content CamWare software for camera control amp image acquisition e Camera driver amp tools Software development kit SDK amp demo programs in C and C 7 4 INSTALLATION 4 INSTALLATION You will find all necessary files on the accompanying USB storage device You may also download the newest versions of our software camera driver and third party software drivers from our Website www pco de Minimum system requirements Clock speed 2 GHz HAM 4 GB Windows or higher 1280 x 1024 pixel resolution display USB 3 0 or Camera Link 4 1 CAMERA DRIVER e USB 3 0 Driver Installer There are two different camera interfaces available Camera Link Frame Grabber When operating the camera with Camera Link Interface Please run the appropriate grabber driver installation provided with the accompanying USB stick with default settings For detailed installation instructions please see appendix 5 ME4 Grabber Instruction USB 3 0 When USB 3 0 is used as a camera interface it is recommended to use the enclosed
15. blue LUT setting minimum value 16 blue max blue LUT setting maximum value ie color linlog color LUT setting 0 linear 1 logarithmic 18 internal use Comment file in ASCII characters with variable length of O XX The length of the comment filed must be documented in the header length field 16 bit pixel data line 1 pixel 1 value of the first pixel line 1 pixel 2 value of the second pixel We recommend that all images should be saved first in the b16 or TIFF format The advantage is to have the b16 or tiff images available all the time You will always have the maximum 16 bit information Please note that not all image analysis programs can accommodate 16 bit data The 8 bit format saves only the information displayed on the monitor screen The 16 bit information will be lost and cannot be displayed later 62 pco This 16 bit pco file format is based on the new format thus allowing for file size gt 4GB A new pco proprietary compression scheme is added in case it is necessary Standard File Formats TIFF Tag Image File Format version 6 0 and lower There is 16bit monochrome and color image format BMP Windows Bitmap Format b w or color 8 bit format images which have been saved in BMP format can be loaded later only as 8 bit images i e part of the original information 16 bit is lost FTS Flexible Image Transport System Version 3 1 There is a 16 bit image format The NA
16. efficiency up to 70 pco edge 4 2 deep cooling down to 30 C pco edge gold water cooling flexibility user selectable choice of shutter mode free of drift stabilized Peltier cooling in order to avoid any drift phenomena in image sequences Areas of Application e live cell microscopy e FRAP e Single molecule detection e lucky astronomy imaging e localization microscopy e adaptive optics lightsheet microscopy Solar astronomy e Selective plane illumination e fluorescence spectroscopy microscopy bio amp chemiluminescence e SPIM e high content screening e Structured illumination photovoltaic inspection microscopy x ray tomography SIM ophthalmology TIRF microscopy e flow cytometry waveguides biochip reading e spinning disk confocal e machine vision microscopy e spectral hyperspectral genome sequencing 2nd imaging and 3rd gen laser induced breakdown e FRET spectroscopy LIBS pco PCO EDGE FAMILY Overview Available camera models pco edge 4 2 pco edge 4 2 pco edge gold 4 2 pco edge 5 5 pco edge 5 5 pco edge gold 5 5 since the image quality in Global Shutter Mode decreases with slower readout frequency the slow scan mode is disabled USB 3 0 Camera Link USB 3 0 USB 3 0 Camera Link USB 3 0 Rolling RS Rolling RS Rolling RS Rolling RS Global GS Rolling RS Global GS Global Reset GR Rolling RS
17. if a new trigger is accepted Exp trig in Exp Stat out busy Stat our acc not acc accepted accepted The maximum achievable frame rate in external trigger mode is negligibly less about 0 1 than operating the camera in Auto Sequence mode If the trigger rate of the external signal is higher than the maximum possible frame rate then every second trigger pulse is ignored Therefore the actual frame rate drops to half of the external trigger rate If the trigger rate is increased further then only every third every fourth etc trigger edge will be accepted 13 6 CAMERA CONTROL Exp trig in Exp Stat out Busy Stat out acc not acc notacc acc notacc acc notacc In order to avoid trade offs at maximum frame rate use either the Busy Status signal or make sure that the external trigger rate follows this condition External Trigger Rate lt fmax 1 001 External Exp Ctrl An external signal applied at BNC 1 see 6 6 controls the start and the duration of the exposure A new exposure is started by the falling or rising edge of the voltage signal at the BNC input The exposure is finished when the opposite edge is detected Thus in this mode the start as well as the length of the exposure time can be controlled No further settings can be made as the image timing is completely controlled by the external trigger signal Be aware that the externally controlled exposure time i
18. of the selection rectangle are used for calculating a new region of interest which will be adapted to the camera capabilities automatically You can reset the ROI to maximum by pressing the CTRL Strg button and the right mouse button 44 pco APPENDIX 45 1 MECHANICAL DIMENSIONS A1 MECHANICAL DIMENSIONS Standard Version pco edge 4 2 5 5 Camera Link or USB 3 0 46 pco Water Cooled Standard Version pco edge 4 2 5 5 USB 3 0 The housing size is similar to the dimensions of the standard version except the camera design with the USB 3 0 interface allows to locate the water connections on the back of the camera pco edge GOLD series USB 3 0 33 5 adjustable Focal Plane 47 pco 2 CHANGE FROM F MOUNT TO C MOUNT A2 CHANGE FROM F MOUNT TO C MOUNT Instructions on how to change the optical input from F mount to C mount Step 1 Remove F mount Adapter Grasp the F mount adapter at the blue ring counter ring and turn it counter clockwise LE RII F mount adapter Step 2 Insert C mount Ring Carefully screw the ring completely in and tighten the two Allen screws C mount ring Adjust Back Focal Length First of all attach a lens to your c mount adapter Then set the focus of your lens to infinity After that look fo
19. rate then the frame rate will be reduced to 1 Deut The frame rate can be adjusted in steps of 1 mHz Global Reset If the selected exposure time would require a lower frame rate the exposure time is cut to the maximum possible time at that frame rate Camera Interface Frame rate FPS Based Exposure Cinko time Camera 33 3 Hz 95 3 MHz pco edge 5 5 Link 1 100 Hz 286 MHz 10us 25 Details for External Exp Start and External Exp Ctrl The detailed timing for external trigger includes system delay times an adjustable additional delay time and the jitter Exp trig in Exposure Camera GR oniy PEE 27 52 us 0 1s Camera 70 slow scan pco edge 5 5 Link 1 0 9 17 us he fast scan For optimized synchronization minimized jitter time use the falling edge of the line signal at the status output see SDK description 23 pco 6 CAMERA CONTROL 6 3 THE SENSOR SIZE TAB CameraControl sensor Size Sensor Misc 120 Signals Binning Region of interest Binning combines neighboring pixels in horizontal vertikal Sensor format standard 256052160 either the horizontal or vertical direction to form super pixels It increases the signal to noise ratio SNR reduces the readout noise of the resulting pixels and decreases the spatial resolution of the total image which is recorded J alternative 192051090 Software
20. stop only by a stop command hence overwriting previous images For longer recording periods an appropriate RAID system is necessary see also the Direct Record to File option on p 36 pco Acquire Mode The acquire mode gives you the ability to enable or disable the recording by an external signal If set to Auto all images are accepted and all images taken are saved A signal at the acq enbl input see E ternal chapter 6 6 is ignored for this function Sequence trig Acquire Mode If set to External the camera will only record images if the external signal enables recording This sensor timing scheme is paused by the signal at the acq enbl input The acq enbl input is sampled at the beginning of the image generation which can be seen at the rising edge of the busy stat output If the acg enbl input is high low when inverted when an image is acquired it causes an idle state until the acq enbl input is low high when inverted Busy Stat out enbl in image image image image In trigger mode External Exp Start the acq enbl input works like a gate for the trigger signal A trigger edge rising falling when exp trig is inverted is accepted only when the acq enbl signal is high low when inverted enbl in Exp trig in Busy Stat out accepted not acc not acc accepted accepted In trigger mode External Exp Ctrl the acq enbl input works very similar to the m
21. will optimize min s ms us the image recording to achieve the best Ext Exp Start Delay 00 000 000 000 2 v possible frame rate ms us nis In the auto sequence exposure control pe ees et FPS based mode the camera determines the fastest possible frame rate depending on the adjusted exposure time and the required readout time Ome 20ms 40ms 72 Soft Trigger pooedge 5 5 rolling shutter 256052160 baw no doubleshutter e After a start command given the sequential recording is started If the trigger rate of the until a stop command is given external signal is quite near the maximum Soft Trigger Single images can be recorded with this CamWare possible frame rate command The single image can be acquired by pressing the Single difference lt 1 1000 Trigger button This button appears after pressing the Start Record then it will be random button see 7 2 Other signals cannot influence this operating mode whether or not a trigger For test purposes only is accepted In the External Exp Start exposure control mode single image recording is started by the falling or rising edge of the voltage signal at the BNC input 1 see 6 6 The frame rate cannot be set as the frame rate is defined by the frequency of the external signal However the predefined exposure time and ROI settings affect the maximum possible frame rate The Busy Status signal at BNC 3 BNC explanation see 6 6 will indicate
22. 40 2GB NVIDIA CUDA Windows 7 Professional 64 bit NOTE Items are exemplary and subject to change Please contact PCO for recommendation of current systems and sell of these systems The use of normal consumer PCs is not recommended ASUS mainboards seem to fail generally during the HS mode test and are not recommended Recommended minimum configuration or better CPU gt i7 2 5 GHz RAM gt 1066 2 8GB Mainboard gt Supermicro X9SRA socket 2011 57 pco 6 05 3 0 6 USB 3 0 A6 1 HARDWARE RECOMMENDATIONS The pco USB 3 0 interface is based on the Cypress EZ USB FX31 device and it is compatible to pco software such as CamWare and SDK To run a pco USB 3 0 camera successfully the user should consider a number of important issues that are discussed in the following chapters Motherboard and Chipset Configuration It is recommended to use a Motherboard with a state of the art USB 3 0 host controller for the onboard USB 3 0 ports The latest generation of USB 3 0 xHCI host controllers manufactured by Intel Renesas NEC Fresco Via Labs ASMedia and Texas Instruments Inc Tl are tested by Cypress Semiconductor Corporation see Cypress EZ USB FX3TM SDK Release Notes Version 1 2 3 chapter 1 3 Currently pco recommends only motherboards with the following onboard host controllers Renesas NEC 0720202 Host Controller e Intel USB 3 0 eXtensible Host Controller If the motherboa
23. B 3 0 cameras connected to a PC FOL adapter There is no recommendation for a manufacturer But if an onboard USB 3 0 port is used the Renesas s host controller uPD720202 is recommended e DELOCK 89348 U3 PCIE1XG202 10 PCle 1x uPD720202 host controller e DELOCK 89325 U3X4 PCIE4XE101 PCle 4x uPD720202 host controller A PCle 4x 8x or 16x slot is recommended USB 3 0 cable included in the packaging of your pco USB 3 0 camera Not recommended Windows XP 32 Bit Win7 32 64 Bit Win8 32 64 Bit A separate DELOCK 89348 U3 PCIE1XG202 10 extension card for each camera should be used to guaranty maximum data throughput of each camera See A3 Recommended Software Components pco USB 3 0 driver supports Windows 7 8 x86 or x64 and Windows XP x86 operating systems Microsoft does not support USB 3 0 natively for Win 7 or older Windows versions Therefore use the manufacturers supplied xHCI host controller driver By contrast in Windows 8 Microsoft does provide a native generic xHCI Driver but pco recommends using the driver from the corresponding manufacturer of the xHCI host controller Currently there are seven different vendors producing USB 3 0 host controllers VIA Labs Inc Diamond Fresco Logic Inc AMD Inc Etron Technology Inc e Renesas Electronics America Inc earlier NEC Texas Instrument Inc Intel Inc Please make sure that the most recent driver from the manufacturer is ins
24. CO or your local dealer fa About CamWare 64bit Ver 3 13 Build Nr 0085 Support Mail only supporti pco de Support Mail with support files support pco de camware Visit our homepage http www pco de extend possible under law Support Support files only Create support files only Warning This program is protected by copyright law and international treaties Unauthorized reproduction of this program or any portion of it may result in severe civil and criminal penalties and will be prosecuted to the maximum Copyright c 2014 PCO AG The licensee is granted a non exclusive and non transferable right to install the software and use it as an application To speed your request we need the following information Short description of the problem Description of your application Camera settings Type and version of camera software being used Camera serial number Operating system PC Processor type PC Memory Graphic card Graphic card setup Please use the email options under the Help menu see 7 8 How to create a logfile e Enable log files File Menu Options MISC see 7 3 Reboot your pco edge Repeat the workflow which produces the faults e Open the About CamWare window Menu gt About and click at the support links to send an email directly to PCO Support see 7 8 e Or visit our website http www pco de support Repair Before sending the camera for repair
25. E HELP MENU 7 9 THE LOCAL MENU 7 10 ADDITIONAL FEATURES 10 10 10 11 12 12 13 15 19 22 24 25 26 29 31 31 32 33 37 38 39 42 42 43 44 pco APPENDIX 1 MECHANICAL DIMENSIONS A2 CHANGE FROM F MOUNT TO C MOUNT A3 USB 2 0 3 0 FOL EXTENDER A4 WATER COOLING OPTION PCO AQUAMATIC II A4 1 SYSTEM COMPONENTS A4 2 FIRST TIME INSTALLATION A4 3 OPERATION A4 4 DIMENSIONS 5 CAMERA LINK 5 1 INSTALLATION OF THE GRABBER CARD 5 2 MICRODIAGNOSTICS TOOL A5 3 IMAGE DATA FLOW A6 USB 3 0 A6 1 HARDWARE RECOMMENDATIONS A6 2 INSTALLATION OF THE USB 3 0 CARD A7 BINNING IN CMOS SENSORS A8 IMAGE FILE FORMATS A9 SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE A10 CUSTOMER SERVICE AND TROUBLE SHOOTING ABOUT PCO 45 46 48 49 50 50 51 52 53 54 54 55 56 58 58 60 61 62 64 65 66 pco 1 INTRODUCTION Advantages of the pco edge family The pco edge family is a breakthrough in scientific imaging cameras It has the distinctive ability to simultaneously deliver extremely low noise high frame rates wide dynamic range high quantum efficiency high resolution and a large field of view all in one image The camera s main features camera specific ultra low noise 0 8 electrons med pco edge gold 4 2 high resolution 5 5 megapixel pco edge 5 5 best dynamic range 36000 1 pco edge gold 4 2 high speed 100 fps Q full resolution pco edge 4 2 amp 5 5 Camera Link high quantum
26. Need Help Need Help If this window pops up because you have trouble running the camera please see instructions in appendix A9 Resolution drop down list displays the existing image sensor spatial resolutions of all PCO camera systems Please select the specific resolution and bit depth of the images to be opened If double shutter images have been recorded and should be opened Double Shutter Mode should be checked Color With the radio buttons the user can specify whether the image type is monochrome b w or color Alignment These two radio buttons adjust whether MSB most significant bit aligned upper or LSB least significant bit aligned lower images have been stored see 7 3 File Settings Example settings to view the b16 files of the pco edge EINER pco edge 5 5 2560x2160 16 color color pco edge 4 2 2048x2048 16 No mono mono 31 pco 7 2 OVERVIEW 7 CAMWARE FEATURES File Camera Acquisition View Window Menu Bar File Camera Acquisition View Window Local Menu Toolbar iE Cursor display BAw s1007 y 13 Value 263 Recorder eoo REC 000 oe x ooo Col 943 y 317 R 136 13 13 See chapter 7 3 7 8 Mouse right click is explained in chapter 7 9 Prints the currently displayed image or comment window Opens a b w color display window Opens the camera control window see chap
27. PCI Interface card For detailed installation instructions or further hardware recommendations see A6 Install PCO USB 3 0 Driver For pco edge USB 3 0 you always need to install the latest USB Driver version After these two screens the driver is completely installed USB 3 0 Driver Installer Welcome to the PCO USB 3 0 Driver 64 Bit Installer This wizard will walk you through updating the drivers for your PCO USB 3 0 device Please read PCO s white paper about the USB 3 0 interface to find additional information http www pco de knowledge base To continue click Next Congratulations You are finished installing your PCO USB 3 0 device The drivers were successfully installed on this computer You can now connect your device to this computer If your device came with instructions please read them first Driver Name Status vw PCO CYUSB3 PCO Ready to use pco 4 2 CAMWARE CamWare Windows application software enables you to control every Camera parameter or setting Images can be displayed on a monitor and may be downloaded and stored The USB storage device contains the installation files for the software for latest Windows operating systems in 32 amp 64 bit After a successful installation you will find the program file Digital Camera Toolbox in your program directory and a CamWare32 64 button on your desktop Other helpful tools are also in
28. Recorder Settings dialog window Play Settings are referred to the camera If more than one camera is connected the camera number is retrieved from the image window that has received the input focus is active If no image window is opened the dialog is referred to camera 1 If the Set to all checkbox is checked the settings apply to all connected cameras The Global Settings are valid for all connected cameras Averaging If in the Avg dropdown list a value not equal to 1 is selected the corresponding number of images is averaged in the buffer reducing the statistically independent noise Another option to reduce the noise is the activation of the Infinite impulse response IIR lowpass filter This filter takes 9096 of the previous image and 1096 of the new image to create images with clearly reduced noise Image actual Image act 1 0 9 Image new 0 1 Replay Speed Slider The slider can be used to adjust the sequence replay speed from slow turtle to fast rabbit Seq Wrap Rec Sequential Wrap Recording sets Recorder Mode 6 5 to Ring Buffer Seq Wrap Play The play button starts the display for a sequence as defined by the first image last image fields and will loop until the stop button is pressed Reverse Play If checked it is possible to play the recorded images in reverse order 38 pco 7 6 THE VIEW MENU B W Window Use this command to open a b w display window Color Window Use this comm
29. SA Science Office of Standards and Technology NOST has defined this format Some programs use the FIT extension for this format ASCII 16 bit format some mathematical programs prefer ASCII data JPG JPEG named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group who created the standard is a commonly used method of lossy compression for photographic images The degree of compression can be adjusted allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality JP2 JPEG 2000 is a wavelet based image compression standard and coding system It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in the year 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform based JPEG standard created 1992 AVI Audio Video Interleave is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology MPG MPEG 1 similar to JPEG is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group MPEG WMV Windows Media Video WMV is a compressed video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft The original video format known as WMV was originally designed for Internet streaming applications as a competitor to RealVideo RO OO w VS m 9 SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE A9 SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE Service The camera is designed to operate with no need
30. Start Menu Progra Create shortcut C NProgramData Microsoft Windows Start Menu Progra Completed 4 m pco software pco 5 QUICK START 5 QUICK START In order to get familiar with your new camera and software it might be helpful if you first aim at an object that is easy to focus and that can be seen at standard light conditions 5 1 PREPARATION Computer is turned on e Installation is finished see chapter 4 e An appropriate lens is attached remove cap or the camera is attached properly to the microscope spectrograph or other scientific device Camera is connected to the PC USB 3 0 or CameraLink Camera is connected to the power supply and ready LED green blinking 5 2 START Start CamWare and the graphical user interface will start up Die Camera Acquisition Yew 1 cax sey 0 g 00 5 000 1 00080 E NOTE Always install latest CamWare version to to get access to the full functionality of your pco camera 10 pco 5 9 YOUR FIRST IMAGE Please follow the instructions E CamWare v3 13 Camera Acquisition View Window 1 SHER oMOO0Q ooon www rco 5 CamWare must be started Open view window b w or color Q start live preview Apply auto range peak You may adjust exposure time aperture and focus 9 Now you should clearly see the object in the window ges icr
31. a Control Use this command to open the camera control window see 6 1 om Camera Control Load Camera Settings er With this command you can reload camera settings which have been Save Camera Settings previously saved You can reload only a file which has been made TRE with the same camera configuration as it was found by the Create Hot Pixel List application at start up Hotpixel Correction Save Camera Settings This command saves the actual camera settings of all connected Close cameras Auto Exposure Rescan Create Hot Pixel List for long exposure only not available setup Hotpixel Correction for long exposure only Sophisticated hot pixel correction is already implemented in the pco edge camera Auto Exposure Starts some exposures and tries to find an exposure time that captures images with grey values between 1400 and 1500 It re adjusts the lookup tables in order to display the images with the new settings best For low light conditions only Close Camera Setup Dialog MEA J Disconnects camera and switches CamWare to Demo Mode In case of multiple cameras all cameras must be codon lisas closed in order for CamWare to switch to Demo Mode Rolling Shutter Cp Dual Outside In Global Shutter Dual Inside Out R Global Reset Dual Bottom Up 2231 dualTopdown Disconnects reconnects all cameras Single Top Down Setup Switch betwee
32. al tasks should be performed wt a Setup Silicon Software Runtime Select Components Which components should be installed Select the components you want to install clear the components you do not want to Select the additional tasks you would like Setup to perform while installing Silicon install Click Next when you are ready to continue Custom installation Documentation 595 v 33MB V Core libraries recommended 04 8 SDK examples Executables 1 9 MB SDK examples Source files 1 0 MB Modules for CMake build system 0 1 MB l Support for microEnable Gigabit Ethemet boards 34 8 MB Acquisition Applets 119 6 MB i VI microEnable IV AS1 PoCL 15MB 7 Current selection requires at least 571 8 MB of disk space Additional icons Create a desktop icon w Update device drivers ISI I S Geradte Manager cA SiliconSoftware Datei Aktion Ansicht k Runtime 5 2 0 57 mid NG amp Documentation ENT127FRES08TR amp Acronis Devices WW microDiagnostics gt Akkus GH microDisplay gt 4 Audio Video und Gamecontroller b G Bluetooth Funkgerat o Software entfernen p 4M Computer d examples gt ef DVD CD ROM Laufwerke gt oS Eingabegerate Human Interface Devices gt S Grafikkarte gt gg IDE ATA ATAPI Controller p 9 IEEE 1394
33. and to open a color display window Convert Control BW Convert Control BW The user can influence how the 16 bit intensity values x axis grey se value of the original image are converted into 8 bit values y axis Browser 2 frequency of the grey value in different ways Convert Control Color Camere Convert Control BW BW Settings includes histogram of original BW Setting Proc config Converted Hist data Saturation 0 Contrast 0 100 100 100 100 4 oo Vibrancy 0 Gamma It is possible to hide the histogram of original 100 100 Col Temp 5805 data to switch tab histogram Auto 1000K 20000 Tint 0 Green sliders in histogram left slider Min controller corresponds to value 0 of the 8 bit display Values below that mark are set to O i e displayed as black right slider Max controller corresponds to m value 255 Values above that mark are set to 255 i e displayed as white 100 100 Swap Display Swap Size Mean 11508 0 Zoom 8192 Zoom 1638 i S Min 1170 Max 16383 H The values in between are converted into a value between O and 255 according to Contrast and Gamma settings See the small graph o which reflects the calculation Proc config tab please see under Convert Control Color Camera Convert Control BW mE Con verted Hist Cornet This tab shows you the histogram of converte
34. ardware Instal 30230 setup exe lation must be per formed by tech e f your current OS is Win7 8 and the User Account Control is nician because high enabled a dialog could occur asking if you wish to launch the voltages can occur on setup Accept with Yes the device Always pull the main plug before opening the device At first the installation is prepared e Secondly the software components are copied Finally the installation is completed and the Delock USB 3 0 extension card can be used Setup Status Installation wird vorbereitet e Electronics USB 3 0 Host Cont Renesas Electronics USB 3 0 Host Controller Driver Setup iS bereitet den InstallShield Wizard vor der Sie durch den Setup Vorgang leiten wird Bitte warten Der InstallShield R Wizard repariert Renesas Electronics USB 3 0 Host Controller Driver Installation wird vorbereitet Neue Dateien werden kopiert s CS Abbrechen 3 0 Host Controller Driver InstallShield Wizard Verwaltungsoperationen abgeschlossen InstallShield Wizard hat die Verwaltungsoperationen von Renesas Electronics USB 3 0 Host Controller Driver auf Ihrem Computer abgeschlossen lt Zur ck Fertig stellen Abbrechen 60 pco A7 BINNING CMOS SENSORS Binning describes the summation of single pixels to form larger pixels and thereby improve the signal to noise ratio SNR Binning in CCD image sensors
35. axis grey value of the original image are converted into 8 bit values y axis frequency of the grey value in different ways White sliders in histogram QO left slider Min controller corresponds to value O of the 8 bit display Values below that mark are set to 0 i e displayed as no color right slider Max controller corresponds to value 255 Values above that mark are set to 255 i e displayed as full color The values in between are converted into a value between 0 and 255 according to Contrast and Gamma settings See the small graph which reflects the calculation Camera Convert Control Color Converted RGB Hist This tab shows you the histogram of converted data Color Balance Prec config Converted RGB Hist Swap Display J Swap Size Proc Config Process configuration Due to proprietary high end algorithms used for these image processing features no detailed description is given here Camera Convert Control Color x E3 Color Balance Proc config Converted RGB Hist switch on in order to significantly reduce GPU Processing Noise Reduction e e 9 processing time On iv Denote Adooty pixel color correction Color Refine Fiter sapa non local means algorithm e on n on n adaptive to brightness and patterns Swap Display J Swap Size 40 pco lie Window 1 GPU Processing In order t
36. b w or Image Browser color bw color Setting b w will result in a faster refresh YES valid only for color sensor View Marker Convert Min Max Length 30 Convert Min Max Cont Auto Range M Continuous Auto Range Crop see chapter 7 6 Paint Images C B Convert Control BW This option enables the L All Doubleshutter automatic min max function during record and Cameras replay Disable this feature if the application stops responding during this mode due to operating system capacity problems Marker Use this command to display crosshair in the center It is possible to adjust length and color of the crosshair Paint Images This option enables the update of both double shutter images or multiple cameras images during record and replay Disable this feature if the application stops responding during this mode Toolbar Options D a Toolbar Opens the corresponding toolbars see 7 2 Toolbar V Main Math Functions sor Ol O Cursor Display With the math window you have the ability to build V Math Functions the difference between a reference image and the Semis actual image If you activate math every new image acquired will be subtracted from the reference image or vice versa Replay Speed Bar Show Speed Bar d last acquired image will be copied to reference buffer e a reference picture will be acquired and copied to reference buffer 0 add offset to avoid negativ
37. based ROI Soft ROI is enabled within CamWare by default Due to this functionality the resolution of pco edge cameras with Camera Link interface can be adjusted in steps of 1 4 pixels Since the readout architecture of these cameras is not able to address single pixels this downsizing is done by software If you work with Device Adapters uManager Labview etc or with our SDK the Soft ROI is disabled by default For further information please see the SDK description For furtherinformation see A7 Available Binning Modes H1xV1 H1xV2 H1xV4 H2xV1 H2xV2 H2xV4 H4xV1 H4xV2 H4xV4 Region of Interest ROI Region of Interest selects only part of the sensor to be read out Vertical ROI In order to speed up the frame rate and to reduce the amount of image data the selected ROI needs to be placed symmetrical to the horizontal center line Horizontal ROI In order to reduce the amount of image data horizontal ROI can be set Please be aware that changes in horizontal direction will not increase the frame rate The decreased image size you see within CamWare is a combination of reduced sensor resolution and software downsizing Soft ROI Examples of achievable frame rates at a specific ROI can be found in the datasheets of the cameras ROI ROI i l Min Camera Interface horizontal vertical ROI increments increments Camera pco edge 4 2 Un 1 1 40x8 iu pco ed
38. co edge 4 2 Camera 100 us 10s E use Link 0 1 100 Hz 272 3 MHz e a s 0 5 33 3 Hz 95 3 MHz 500us 2s Exposure time Sensor frame readout time Auto Sequence In case the required exposure is longer than the frame readout time the image sensor is completely exposed to light for some time In case of a triggered flash illumination this would be the best moment to illuminate the image sensor t exposure t exposure 1st row 1st 1st row 2nd image image x t all rows tst 2 t all rows 2nd u 1 16 pco The hardware signal for the time tua is available on connector 4 Global out see 6 6 Setting can only be made through SDK not available in CamWare Obviously if during exposure and readout parts of the viewed image are moving horizontally this would result in image distortion This is why the global shutter mode may be a prerequisite for some applications However most dynamic events can be captured in 1 ms which is a common integration time with SLR cameras set at 1 1000 exposure The time shift from one row to another is only about 10 us fast scan The resulting maximum readout time of 10 ms full resolution seems to be sufficient for a broad spectrum of dynamic events The 10 ms is also faster than the image shift process of most frame transfer emCCD image sensors previously used for low light applications If this does not influence the ima
39. d ASCII mode text will be placed into the image replacing the content of the image 271x 8 pixels Time step shows the end of exposure time Three different information is stamped onto the image number of the image date Gand time o 28 pco 6 6 THE I O SIGNALS TAB Type Exposure Trigger TTL Status Busy TTL J Status Expos t ET atus In Timing Sensor Size Sensor Mis Recording 1 0 Signals 2 W Acquire Enable TTL m G rolling shutter 2560521 brw na daubleshutter ning Filter Polarity nein Exposure Trigger If checked a signal for External Exp Start or External Exp Ctrl trigger mode see chapter 6 2 is accepted at the exp trig BNC input 1 Aquire Enable 6 If checked a signal for Acquire Mode or Sequence Trigger Mode see chapter 6 5 is accepted at the enbl BNC input 2 Status Busy If checked a signal indicating busy status is given at the status busy output Once an acceptable trigger edge is received busy will go on status high As soon as busy goes low again a new trigger edge is accepted Status Expos If checked a signal indicating exposure status is given at the status output Status Expos indicates the actual exposure window for one frame Status Line If checked a signal indicating line status is given at the status output
40. d data 256 gt Swap Display Swap Size How the Auto Range applies CamWare V3 13 File Camera Acquisition View ra a z Ys lad ow oo BZW x 540 y 12 Value 0 Auto Range Peak searches for the minimum and maximum 16 bit intensity values of the image Given these number the converter scales the 8 bit display 256 within these two values Auto Range Crop sets the converter to ignore the extreme intensity values of the image and scales the display in a smaller range Thus dark or bright light spots reflections etc are cut off Min Max Automatic Continuous Auto Range Crop 39 pco 7 CAMWARE FEATURES Convert Control BW Convert Control Color only pco edge color Convert Color Color Balance Histogram of original data Color Balance Proc config Converted RGB Hist Saturation B 0 Contrast 5 1 5 17 i I e m a m ie Intensity of single color can be controlled by Vibrancy s 0 Gamma i Saturation and Vibrance 100 100 Col Temp D 9 1000K 3 Tint 100 100 Press the Auto button to set the white balance Swap Display J Swap Size 7 The balancing of RGB can be controlled by N 22 2 Col Temp and Tint It is possible to hide the histogram of original data and to switch tab histogram The user can influence how the 16 bit intensity values x
41. e completed by pressing the F1 EE rr Ew Auto Sequence 00 010 000 000 v Accept button 7 Soft Trigger BS a elay 00 000 000 000 Ext Exp Start ee ED In the information field you can see Ext Exp Ctrl FPS based some information about the camera Click into the info field to change the displayed rolling shutter 255021850 bw na doubleshutter VIEWS There are three available views of the information field 5 5 rolling shutter 2560x2160 b w nadoubleshutter Camera type El Temp 33 C Sensor Temp 5 C Power Tem 34 C Actual temperatures Imagesize 2560x2160 max fps 59959 d4mage size and frame rate NOTE If the Accept button is not pressed these changes will be ignored and lost If the changes are within the allowed condition limits of the camera a message is sent to the computer the button disappears and the green lamp will be highlighted The camera control dialog automatically adjusts settings in case they are out of limits 12 pco 6 2 THE TIMING TAB In this context trigger means exposure trigger i e the trigger signal controls the Timing Sensor Size Sensor Misc 120 Signals exposure of a single image light integration time CameraControl Delay 0 000m amp Exposure 10 100ms Trigger Mode Trigger Mode Timing E Exposure 00 00 010 100 HH Auto Sequence The camera
42. e values which would not be visible 2 enable disable math function Replay Speed Bar y The faster replay speed is useful if large sets of image data need to be scanned 35 pco 7 CAMWARE FEATURE c Infotext cm E Use this command to show or hide the start up is Sen Infatest Scroll Made information dialog box cw View settings Tools Show At Startup Synchronous Embedded Image Info Synchronous Scrolling View Image Info If this item is checked all opened image windows Multi Win Picture Order will be scrolled at the same time and in the same Camera order Image time stamp manner Logfile Application Logfile Clear Logfiles Driver Logfile Explore Logfiles View Embedded Image Info not available Please restart Camware to create the logfiles Multi Win Picture Order Cancel With the Multi Window you have the ability to view the images of all active cameras in one window You can select between camera order oriented or image time oriented order Image time oriented means that the sequence of images depends on the individual time stamp of each image Camera order oriented means that the first image shown is from camera 1 then camera 2 and so on Logfile This option enables the logging of errors and system info Enable this feature in order to create a support file which can help to find out troubles with the camera see A8 Load lookup Table for monochr
43. ed Only the liquid level of the reservoir water tank should be controlled from time to time Dr Only use nnovatec Protect IP for the pco aquamatic Do not use or add any other cooling liquid or normal water If you need to add E cooling liquid in order to maintain level in the tank please contact PCO for additional supply Q The cooling liquid will turn yellow after some hours of operation This is normal and no sign of wear or malfunction The optimum pH value vo 88 is between 8 and 9 please check this value if you are concerned about the cooling liquid quality NOTE The recommended service interval for the change of the cooling liquid is four years 50 pco A4 2 FIRST TIME INSTALLATION 3 Please take care to situate the unit on a flat and firm surface Do not cover the air intakes of the unit Please ensure free airflow around the pco aquamatic to ensure maximum cooling performance All tubes and power cords need to run kink free Ower Before installation of the unit carefully read the Innovatek Protect IP safety datasheet See Innovatek Website owen Please follow steps 1 6 Connect tubes to cooling unit and camera The two arrows on the housing of the cooling unit only indicate flow direction Either connection of the camera can be used for in or out Attach power connection e Open tank cover Turn power switch to on position l amp Slowly fill in the cooling applicati
44. ed to other scientific image sensors The high frame rate along with the high dynamic creates a large amount of data that must be handled and stored The maximum data rate of the sCMOS Image sensor is given by pco edge 5 5 Camera Link 2560 2160 pixel 1 frame 2 Byte 16bit dynamic 100 frames s 1 1 GB s pco edge 5 5 Camera Link To handle this considerable amount of data there are two options available Option 1 Real time Recording to Computer pco edge sCMOS camera series uses this option For this purpose the interface must be capable of transmitting data at the required speed Interfaces such as GigE USB 3 0 and Camera Link are not fast enough to transmit this data which is delivered by the largest SCMOS image sensor Nevertheless there is a sophisticated solution that uses the Camera Link interface which is integrated into the pco edge camera It is a fact of nature that light itself has its own noise component called photon or shot noise which increases with light signal In this approach no compression is made in small signals while for large signals a suitable compression is applied Since the introduced compression error is always smaller than the photon noise induced error it is not seen and a so called visual lossless compression has been performed It can be shown that this is possible without any significant loss of information Therefore the calculation for the pco edge camera at f
45. f the imported image Load Lookup Table Direct Record To File Record with Flowfile Open RAW Recorder Sequence image sequence from Exit one camera This command is used to import a sequence of images If more than one camera is connected and an image window is currently open the sequence will be loaded to the active window If no image window is open the images will be loaded to camera 1 This command opens the Open file dialog box Only files with the extension and the format of b16 and tif TIFF16 can be imported Save RAW File single image only This command should be used to save the image which is displayed in the active window The command opens the Save file dialog box The image file can be saved in 16bit b16 and tif format If more than one camera is connected it is possible to save all current images by selecting Export all images in the Save file dialog box With this feature it is possible to save one image of each active camera within one process step it is not necessary to repeat the save process for each camera The Save command will not be available if no image window is open Save RAW Recorder Sequence image sequence from one camera The Save Recorder command should be used to save or export image records If more than one camera is connected and an image window is currently open the record of the active window will be saved The command opens the Save file dialog box The Save Recorder command will
46. ff Default BAW Noise Filter m A D Converter not available for pco edge Double Image This feature is widely used for particle image velocimetry PIV measurements but not available for the standard pco edge cameras IR Sensitivity Feature is not applicable for pco edge Offset Control Offset control is done automatically for optimal results User control is disabled B W Noise Filter In addition to the integrated static defect pixel list processing a dynamic noise filter can be activated here in order to remove so called blinkers and high noise pixels you encounter unexpected aliasing effects turn this filter off 25 pco Conversion Factor 6 CAMERA CONTROL The conversion factor defines how many charge carriers electrons which have been generated by light in the image sensor in each pixel are necessary to generate one count one intensity level in the digital image Therefore the conversion factor describes the gain that is applied to the signal before it is converted into a digital value The conversion is optimized for the pco edge 0 46 e count CameraControl Timing Sensor Size Sensor Misc Recording 120 Signals AD Converter Pirelclock Conversion Factor one two BB Double Image Colin 5 3 26 odling Setpoint Q IH Sensitivity oft Offset Control auto off Default
47. g 1 accumulation Pixel values can accumulate causing an effective dynamic reduction or larger number formats because the result might exceed the original format two times maximum 8 bit values will result in a 9 bit value This will not be a problem if 12 bit values are accumulated and transported as 16 bit images However in the case of scientific CMOS if 16 bit values are transmitted in 16 bit images only two times 15 bit maximum values are allowed The signal of the binned pixels will be accumulated due to the properties of readout noise the increase of the noise itself will only be as big as the square root of the number of binned pixels The SNR will improve and in addition a reduction of the stored image data is achieved NOTE current default binning mode is accumulation Aver aging is not available within CamWare CMOS binning 2 averaging Pixel values can be averaged which has the same effect on the SNR as accumulation due to the properties of noise This would keep the image output format the same and would reduce the amount of image data that be stored When this type of CMOS binning is processed in the camera it is called hardware binning This should not be confused with real binning in CCD image sensors because the hardware that processes this binning is not much different from the hardware in computer processing Therefore the term hardware binning may be misleading 61 pco 8 IMAGE
48. ge 4 2 USB 3 0 4 1 64x16 no gold 4 2 Camera pco edge 5 5 Link 4 1 160x8 no pco edge 5 5 USB 3 0 4 1 64x16 no gold 5 5 Controlling the Soft ROI Option only Camera Link version Start regedit and HKey Current User Software PCO Camware create a DWORD value with the name DisableSoftROI Set this value to 1 in order to disable Soft ROl Remove or set this value to O in order to enable Soft ROI by default Keep in mind that unsymmetrical ROI decreases FPS Table shows values for Soft ROI disabled pco edge 4 2 ae 20 1 40x8 yes pco edge 5 5 Camera 160x Link pen 16 es 24 pco Sensor Format Preselected sensor format pco edge 4 2 Camera Link 2048 x 2048 pco edge 4 2 gold 4 2 USB 3 0 2048 x 2048 2560 x 2160 pco edge 5 5 Camera Link 1920 x 1080 pco edge 5 5 gold 5 5 USB 3 0 2560 x 2160 CamWare will show the actual frame rate corresponding to the selected image size the information Imagesize 25602160 max fps 33 64 6 4 THE SENSOR MISC TAB CameraControl Pixelclock ep Sensor Size Sensor Misc 10 Signals The pixel clock sets the clock Converter Pixelclack 1 Conversion Factor frequency and therefore the image S one O two 1 0 5 Pixels 045 e count sensor readout speed Double Image See overview table on page 5 Electronics Temperature Qf Oon PCO EDGE FAMILY for available Sensitivity readout frequencies 9 off on Sens EO C Offset Contral 8 auto o
49. ge recording and processing then rolling shutter mode will not affect it either Exposure time lt Sensor frame readout time Auto Sequence In case the required exposure time is shorter than the frame readout time the image is composed of two exposure bands moving from the outside to the center of the sensor gt exposure stop amp readout band of simultaneous exposure mm reset amp exposure start For example the shortest exposure time in RS 5 5 is 500 us or 100 us 4 2 The band of simultaneous exposure is in this case smallest possible height at full resolution Min Camera Inter E A number of xposure Time per row RS only face Ee simult rows see 421 USB3 0 110 100us 24 10 us 4 Camera 9593 10008 27 60 us 3 pco edge 4 2 Link ue 272 3 100us 9 65 us 10 D door 5 USB3 0 86 500us 30 50 us 16 222 OSs Sous 27 52 us 18 pco edge 5 5 Link m 286 500us 9 17 us 54 Previous comments on image distortion also known as Rolling Shutter Effect apply here as well 17 PCO NOTE The jitter t can be maximum of time one row 6 CAMERA CONTROL lt ta rows ist image gt rows 2 gt Details for External Exp Start and External Exp Ctrl The detailed timing for external trigger includes system delay times an adjustable additional delay time and the jitter Exp trig in Exposure CEDE Internal Interface system delav RS only fh perm
50. ily by mouse You only have to press the CTRL Strg and the shift button at the same time and select a white or gray area within the image The pixel values within the coordinates of the selection rectangle are used for calculating a new white balance For best results we recommend to use the white balance button in the Convert Control Color See 7 6 or the Auto Balance Color in the Local Menu see 7 9 respectively Camera Convert Control Color les Fol d U Wi n d OW Color Balance Proc config Converted RGB Hist The Convert Control windows be minimized folded up Just move the pointer over the bar and the window will unfold again Q Swap Display Camera 98 e Setting Contrast Area by Mouse You can control the minimum and maximum values used for the conversion from 16 bit to 8 bit with the mouse Move the mouse cursor into a region which should be shown with maximum contrast Press the shift and the left mouse button Hold down the mouse button while increasing the size of the selection rectangle with mouse moves After releasing the mouse button the coordinates of the selection rectangle act as a border for calculating the minimum and maximum values Setting a new ROI by Mouse In the same manner you can setup a new region of interest see ROI 6 2 for the camera You only have to press the CTRL Strg button and drag an area with the left mouse button instead of the shift button The coordinates
51. in exposure time a flash illumination is recommended The readout exposure stop is done from the outside to the center Global Reset is only available for pco edge 5 5 Camera Link and under development for pco edge USB 93 0 versions General Timing Diagram reset readout readout exposure start start end deii TT Re eee Rew Zu t exposure last row t all rows The exposure time of all rows starts simultaneously The exposure time of the first row stops after the predefined time the following rows are read out from the outside to the center row by row Please note that this leads to a different duration of exposure time for all rows Timing Timing Exposure 00 001 000 000 ROP s The exposure and delay time can be adjusted in steps of 10 us amp mus ns Delay 00 000 000 000 4 EMELETE Camera GR only Delay time FPS based pco edge 5 5 10us 2s Ous 1s 22 pco Timing Frame Hate Exposure 00 100 000 v kHz Hz mHz 00 001 000 000 v Em USNS FPS based FPS based The camera will optimize the image recording to achieve the selected frame rate with chosen exposure time as close as possible Only for Auto Sequence trigger mode e and only available with Camera Link Interface First the frame rate is set If the time required for readout of the image is longer than 1 frame
52. is program is protected by copyright law and international treaties folder Unauthorized reproduction of this program or any portion of it may result in severe civil and criminal penalties and will be prosecuted to the maximum extend possible under law Copyright c 2014 PCO AG The licensee is granted a non exclusive and non transferrable right to install the software and use it as an application 42 pco 7 9 THE LOCAL MENU Image Properties Resolution 1332 1040 Bit Pixel 14 it Pixel Alignment upper Sensor b w 20 10 2010 15 40 53 Image Properties Camera Control Convert Control BW Zoom Zoom Zoom Auto Range Peak Auto Range Crop Auto Exposure Flip Mirror Rotate Left 80 Rotate Right 90 Line Tool Copy To Clipboard Key Key The local menu is opened by clicking the right mouse button inside the client area of an image window Image Properties Opens an information bubble with main image properties and activates the in image display It does not overwrite image data All camera link cameras generate the image properties out of Camware Camera Description see SDK manual for further information and the PC system time In case a pco edge with USB 3 0 interface is connected the image properties and other metadata is transferred from the camera directly One additional ine which contains all image properties will be sent from the camera after the image data is tra
53. ith an excellent contact to leading manufacturers of image sensors ensure our access to state of the art CCD and CMOS technology for our cameras Since 2001 PCO is located in its own facility building in Kelheim at the shore of the beautiful and international river Danube Here in the county Bavaria which is well known for its excellent support and conditions for high technology companies we share the benefits of the simple access to high performance products and services in the surrounding area Kelheim itself is a historical town first documented in 866 The small city is founded at the confluence of the Danube and the Altm hl which has been converted into the Rhine Main Danube bypass channel for water transport Located in Danube valley it is the heart of a beautiful river and forest covered lime plateau landscape It s landmark the Hall of Liberation was built by Ludwig l in 1863 on the Mount Michael and is visible from all over the city and valley The beautiful Danube Gorge which is protected as natural monument since 1840 is located between Kelheim and the famous abbey Weltenburg 66 pco DCO
54. limit Before a second sequence can be recorded one must endure the wait time until data is downloaded to computer storage Therefore this option can only be used for recording short sequences with enough time between each event to download the image data This option is not necessary for the pco edge as either with USB 3 0 or Camera Link interface the image data will be recorded to the computer in real time Memory Structure Organization As the memory is software controlled in both options it does not matter how the data is stored The memory can be organized for ring buffer or FIFO recording or for a specified number of images like a burst mode The pco edge camera enables all of these possibilities with the integrated dynamic link libraries and proprietary CamWare application software This allows the customer to select the memory structure and organization that is optimized for the application at hand Recommendations In the following you can find two exemplary systems for RAID and RAM storage options that have been successfully tested by pco for high performance and which we sell directly to our customers They only show configuration example for actual system configurations please call us directly 11x 2TB SATA 6 GB s 16 DDR3 Intel Core 17 3820 processor 3 6 GHz GeForce GTS 640 2GB NVIDIA CUDA Windows 7 Professional 64 bit 64 GB DDR3 RAM Intel Core 17 3820 processor 3 6 GHz GeForce GTS 6
55. n Rolling Shutter Global Shutter and Global Reset Mode The camera will automatically restart Only in Rolling Shutter 6 2 1 five different readout modes are available Standard mode is Dual Outside in n Single Top down the pco edge provides only half of the normal frame rate 37 pco 7 CAMWARE FEATURES 7 5 THE ACQUISITION MENU isitior View Window C9 Live Preview Rec Memory Settings REC i Recorder Settings Memory Allocation Dialog Allocate of images of images Max allocateable 2002 REC o o Play settings First Image 1 Last Image 1 Cancel all cameras Global Settings Averaging 4 Seq w rap Rec Avg 7 Sea Wrap Play lowpass Reverse Play Replay Speed ta Live Preview The Live Preview is useful for fast and easy adjusting and focusing of the camera The active window will be updated To see another window simply click on the window This option is not available in double shutter mode Acquire Picture not available Acquire Sequence ENTER Hecords single images in case of sensicam cameras Acquire Sequence otarts recording images into the system memory according to Trigger Mode selection see 6 2 During the recording the camera controls are locked Rec Memory Settings This sets the number of images recorded in one sequence The maximum is defined by approved RAM size Recorder Settings This command opens the
56. ning message 60 C error message If a warning level is passed the Power LED blinks slowly and the Error LED displays the error code If a failure level is passed the Power LED blinks fast and the Error LED shows the error code Error Failure on off none 1Hz Warning when temperature at 55 C one short flash i s flash also if sensor is defect or missing rales one short flash Failure when temperature at 60 C Fan speed M cnan also if a high deviation of the standard value flash flashes is reached NOTE The camera has its own protection circuit and will shut down automatically when the electronics temperature exceeds safety level 52 pco A4 4 DIMENSIONS All dimensions are given in millimeter Weight 4kg completely filled cooling liquid tank General Information You are not restricted to purchase the pco aquamatic system it is possible to use an own water cooling solution A separate power supply will be provided to every pco edge camera with water connectors The hardware of the pco edge cameras with USB 3 0 Interface is designed to work with or without a water cooling system because a fan that provides adequate cooling is inside the camera anyway Please note that the minimum sensor temperature of the pco edge GOLD series is depending on the cooling system In case you use an own water cooling system please make sure that the liquid you use to cool your camera is at all times NEVER bel
57. not be available if no image window is open Export File not reloadable Use this command to export the image of the active image window This command will open the Save file dialog box Files with the extensions fts tif bmp asc jpg and jp2 can be exported This item Will not be visible if no image window is open 33 pco 7 CAMWARE FEATURES Export Recorder Sequence not reloadable Export Recorder Sequence hot reloadable Use this command to export a sequence of images If more Print Setup than one camera is connected and an image window is Print Preview currently open the record of the window which has got the 3 input focus will be saved If no image window is open the Print images of channel 1 will be saved This command will open the Export image dialog box Files with the extensions fts tif bmp asc avi mpg jpg 2 and wmv can be exported see Appendix 8 Print Setup The Print Setup command opens the Windows Print Setup dialog box for adjustments and settings of the connected printer s Print Preview This command opens a Print Preview window Print Opens the Windows Print dialog box This command opens the Options dialog allowing special settings Here you can select the alignment of the pixel Load Lookup Table Direct Record To File File Settings Record with Flowfile Exit Tiff File Settings Align to MSB OMM sss PAC value if the pixel depth is less than 16 bit e g
58. ns The UF1 is a pure USB 3 0 cable and is built up symmetrically and therefore it is not possible to confuse the connections or to connect the pco edge which has a USB Type B connector with this cable This system only works at a computer with USB 3 0 your camera will not be identified if you connect it to a USB 2 0 connector The Adnaco SU1 is an optical insulator and also gives you the opportunity to physically extend the transmission path between camera and computer Performance If you use a USB 2 0 device at the Adnacu SU 1 a maximum data transfer rate of 24 5 Mbytes s will be reached Cable length USB 3 0 USB 2 0 USB Configuration 357 Mbytes s 40 1 Mbytes s Without SU 1 SU 1 10m cable 352 Mbytes s 24 5 Mbytes s SU 1 100m cable 330 Mbytes s 23 4 Mbytes s 1 e g pco edge e g pco pixelfly usb 49 pco 4 WATER COOLING OPTION PCO AQUAMATIC II A4 WATER COOLING OPTION PCO AQUAMATIC Il A4 1 SYSTEM COMPONENTS This is the re cooling system for pco edge cameras with water cooling 30108000211 pco aquamatic II e Connection Tube 5m 3541 01 PCO with Colder NS212 fittings 50402000055 Power supply ETC 70 12 1 2m 20307500024 Power cable 30108000212 EDGE WAT camera cable 5m FGG RG58 NC3MX 6 10305000190 Innovatec Protect IP 1L 10307000130 The operation of the pco aquamatic is simple and uncomplicated Normally no maintenance and nearly no attention are need
59. nsferred Camera Control Opens the Camera Control window see chapter 6 Convert Control BW Color Opens the corresponding Convert Control windows see chapter 7 6 Zoom Changes the zoom used to display the image Auto Range Peak Crop Displays the image in a predefined scaling see chapter 7 6 Auto Balance Color only available for pco edge color The white balance feature which corresponds to the white balance button in the Convert Control Color see chapter 7 6 Auto Exposure Auto Exposure feature see chapter 7 4 Flip The image will be flipped before display Mirror The selected image will be mirrored before display Rotate The image will be rotated by 90 counter clockwise left or clockwise right before it is shown in the image window Copy To Clipboard Copies the active image to clipboard only as 8 bit image file An 43 i m 7 CAMWARE FEATURES Line Tool rU zz Select Line Tool to show a graph which shows the intensity of the pixels under the red line shown in the image window The selection of this menu item determines the location of the first point After this you can move the mouse to the second point which can be selected by a left click Now a Line Diagram opens and the length of the line unit pixel is shown in a bubble and displayed in the window Wal 1435 Length 350 7 10 ADDITIONAL FEATURES White Balance by Mouse It is possible to change white balance eas
60. o benefit from all of CamWare s advanced processing B W Window features we highly recommend a NVIDIA CUDA enabled graphics processing unit GPU AMD s ATI graphics processing units are not P Color Window recommended at Convert Control BW Find a list of CUDA enabled products here e https developer nvidia com cuda gpus Convert Control Color Get the CUDA driver here e https developer nvidia com cuda downloads Browser Make sure e that the CUDA driver is successfully installed e that the GPU has at least 512MB memory CamWare Image Processing D Color Monochrome Pre Processing e Noise Reduction v v Bayer Processing Bayer Demosaicing v e Sharpen v e Refine Process v e Chroma Blurr v Post Processing e Offset Gain Min Max v v e Color Correction v e Saturation Vibrance v e Color Temperature Tint White v Balance e Gamma Contrast v v Browser The Recorder Browser gives an overview of the images in the Hecorder and helps you in an easy way to select a new current image Simply click on the desired image to make it the current image It may then be viewed in the Black White and Color Window Browser window can show up to 40 pictures per page thus enabling easy printing of the Browser window You can switch between the single pages by double clicking inside the Browser window or with the local menu right mouse button Browser Cono Skip images allows for convenient overview at large numbers
61. ode External Exp Start However the acq enbl input is ignored for the edge which is closing the exposure time started exposure will be finished accordingly When using acq enbl in external trigger modes the following timing specification should be met Exp trig in enbl in If the acq enbl signal changes within the window of t set up to t hold the behavior is random The trigger may be accepted or ignored 27 pco Acquire Mode No Images 3 Sequence trig w 6 CAMERA CONTROL Sequence Trigger Once a falling or rising edge at the acquire enable trigger input see chapter 6 6 is recognized an internal image counter starts to run It will count all acquired images and will stop the recording when the predefined number of images is reached Example timing diagram Trigger mode external exposure start Aquire mode sequence trigger Image counter 3 Acq enbl in Exp trig in Status busy out not acc Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 not acc Timestamp e A time stamp can be placed into the upper left corner of the image It can be either displayed as binary value or as binary and ASCII value The time resolution is 1 us In binary mode the first 16 pixels Q will be filled with the time stamp information binary code The numbers are coded in BCD with one byte per pixel which means that every pixel can hold 2 digits For further information please refer to the SDK In binary an
62. of images Multi Window View the images of all active cameras in consecutive order in one window Time oriented means that the sequence of images depends on the individual time stamp of each image Camera number oriented means that the first image shown is from camera 1 then camera 2 and so on Embedded Image Info not available 41 pco 7 CAMWARE FEATURES 7 7 THE WINDOW MENU Cascade Show all windows overlapped Cascade Tile nue P Tile windows vertically or horizontally Icons Arrange Icons Close All Rearranges all minimized topic icons the desktop Close All Close all windows 7 8 THE HELP MENU Contents Opens the main page of the program help Contents Search for Help on Search for Help on About Opens an index list for help f About CamWare 64bit Ver 3 13 Build Nr 0085 About CamWare l l l This window shows program information and contains camware helpful support links In case of a camera problem support files see 7 3 Options Misc Logfile may be generated which can be automatically attached to the email The support files contain relevant hardware Support Mallonb a information the log files and the PCO related registry ee entries These files are moved into zip archive called Support Support files only Create support files only i i Visit our homepage http www pco de CWSupport zip which can be found in the application Warning Th
63. of special adjustments or periodic inspections Maintenance Unplug the camera from any power supply before cleaning it Use a soft dry cloth for cleaning the camera Do not use liquid cleaners or sprays The lens is best cleaned with pressurized air or with liquid cleaners such as pure alcohol or with special optical cleaners that are available at high quality photo stores Never use aggressive cleaning liquids such as gasoline acetone spirits or nitro cleanser Every time the input window is cleaned there is the possibility of surface damage Do not clean the input window unless it is absolutely necessary Be careful and avoid scratches and damage to the input window surface Use a cotton swab dipped in pure alcohol or optical cleaning liquid and wipe only on the glass surface Do not get any cleaning liquid on the metallic parts such as the lens thread because tiny detached particles may scratch the surface Always store the camera with the protective cap or with a lens mounted to avoid dust and dirt on the input window Camera Disposal The camera includes electronic devices which can contain materials harmful to the environment If the camera is to be discarded please dispose of it in an environmentally responsible manner and use recycling facilities where available 64 pco A10 CUSTOMER SERVICE AND TROUBLE SHOOTING If you have a question which is not adequately addressed in this manual please contact P
64. ome cameras With the Pseudo LUT Lookup Table feature you can load any LUT with one of four different formats and you can view the result in the color view window Options Load Lookup Table Direct Record To File Record with Flowfile Exit Direct Record to File With this command you can pre set a certain number of images to be stored directly onto hard disk If the camera captures images faster than the computer can save to disk then you will lose images The displaying of the images doesn t interfere with the record process See also 6 5 Recorder Mode and PC recommendations in A5 3 Image Data Flow Use this command to write data to your RAID system Record with Flowfile This command should be used to load a flow file A flow file contains lines with a delay and an exposure time Each line corresponds to one image to be acquired If the flow file has 15 delay and exposure times than 15 images will be acquired Before the image is snapped the corresponding time values will be sent to the camera This affects the possible image frame rate as additional time is required for setting the values between two images Please see the sample flow files in the application directory e g flow txt Exit This command exits the program and closes all channel dialog windows Window positions settings and sizes are stored in the windows registry and will be loaded again at next start up 7 4 THE CAMERA MENU Acquisition View Camer
65. on mixture while the unit is running you have to constantly refill liquid 9 While the cooling liquid flows back to the reservoir make sure that the whole air escapes from the system this takes a few minutes move hoses if necessary The cooling liquid reservoir tank is filled when liquid level is approximately 1 2 cm from the top of the tank The integrated pump only works when the pump chamber is completely filled To ensure this please move hoses or remove air by evacuating Reservoir Capacity is approximately 500 After steps 1 6 are completed successfully the system is ready for operation NOTE The hose connectors are waterproof in not connected state Maybe they lose one drop of cooling liquid from time to time You don t have to empty the hoses while storing the camera system 51 pco 4 WATER COOLING OPTION PCO AQUAMATIC II A4 3 OPERATION First connect the power out of the cooling unit with the power in of the pco edge camera by using the PCO WAT camera cable The cooling unit provides two operation modes Operation Mode on the cooling unit is turned on permanently and provides the camera with power Your camera can be switchted on and off as needed follow Operation mode follow the cooling unit will turn on when the camera is switched on and vice versa Error Codes The coolant temperature sensor is located in the water tank 27 C fan turns off 36 C fan turns on 55 C war
66. ot force the lens onto the camera To protect the lens connector thread from damage use minimal force when attaching a lens to the camera If any of the following conditions apply immediately switch off the camera separate it from the power line and contact our customer support A If the power cable or the power plug seems to be worn or damaged A If liquids have penetrated the device A If after thoroughly reviewing the instruction manual the device is still not operating properly A If the camera has been dropped or the casing is damaged 6 pco SYSTEM COMPONENTS pco edge 5 5m rolling shutter SN 61000016 The camera system includes the following parts Camera Head F mount optical connection standard For standard F mount SLR lenses and adapters C mount ring provided See appendix A2 For standard C mount and microscopy connectors DC Power Jack connect to power supply Input Output 4x SMA connectors 2x input 2x output Interface user selectable Dual Camera Link full or USB 3 0 LED indicates camera status Green continuous camera is booting Green blinking camera is ready for operation Yellow blinking recording on Red blinking error O Serial Number Tag on the bottom of the camera Mounting Thread 1 4 20 UNC mounting thread Camera Link Grabber Card USB 3 0 PCI Interface Card PCI Express x4 Card Camera Link full or PCI Express x1 Card 2 x USB 3 0 connections A
67. out 1 tirstine e astin f Lallines 30 pco 7 CAMWARE FEATURES PCO s excellent software for camera control image acquisition and archiving of images in various file formats You will find a Help file under the common Help menu imaging There are some features explained in the Help file that are not applicable for this camera version 1 IF NO CAMERA IS DETECTED DEMO MODE When CamWare is started it automatically recognizes the Demo Mode Setu gt camera type of the connected and running cameras Error on startup No camera detected or no board found Starting without camera functions Please select color and resolution for demo mode Resolution CamWare will start in Demo Mode switched off or no camera is connected if your camera is akana v 139 Y In this mode all image processing features are available but all camera settings are deactivated The user only has to tell CamWare what type of image he wants to open For that purpose the Demo Mode Setup window opens and asks for the corresponding input Double Shutter Color Alignment b w color Slower upper PRESS Hestart n log ENABLE LUGGING This enables logging and restarts Canty are IF only like to contact pco please press and select About and Support Cancel Festart n log
68. ow the dew point of the ambient temperature In order to avoid any appearance of condensation use cooling liquid at room temperature A liquid flow rate of 1 2 litres per minute is sufficient 53 pco 5 CAMERA LINK AS CAMERA LINK A5 1 INSTALLATION OF THE GRABBER CARD Instructions for installing and testing the SILICONSOFTWARE NOTE microEnable IV ME4 Camera Link grabber card Hardware Instal lation must be per Please install the latest silicon software runtime package before formed by a tech installing the hardware Download www pco de support nician because high voltages can occur on the device Always pull the main plug before opening the device When working on a 64 bit operating system please make sure to install the proper 64 bit runtime when also a 64 bit application will be operated If the application is 32 bit you need to install the 32 bit runtime accordingly If there is no Gigabit Ethernet board installed standard please deselect Support for Let the program also update device drivers Shutdown your computer open the computer case and install the grabber card The grabber card should be displayed within the device manager If the device is not shown this way please reinstall the SiliconSoftware device driver After the installation please start the program microDiagnostics see next page e Setup Silicon Software Runtime Select Additional Tasks We Which addition
69. r a point in infinity and generate a sharp image by turning the smaller ring of the adapter Then fix this position with the two small indented screws Allen screws Limitations of c mount lenses Keep in mind that c mount lenses could cause shadings at the edges of big sized sensors Most c mount lenses are able to illuminate a maximum image circle of 11 mm 2 3 16 mm 1 or 22 mm 4 3 diameter only The pco edge cameras have a sensor diagonal from 18 8 to 21 8 mm it follows that you have to use the ROI function for a shade less image while using the c mount adapter with the two smaller C mount diameters 48 USB 2 0 3 0 FOL EXTENDER The Adnaco SUf1 is a FOL Extender for USB 1 1 2 0 3 0 devices It contains two components the Adnaco UT1 USB Converter with power supply and the Adnaco UF1 active USB 3 0 FOL cable integrated electrical A optical converter with length of 10 30 50 and 100m The UT1 transmits signals from USB 1 1 2 0 3 0 to USB 3 0 and has two Type A USB connectors named Host and Device and a 5 0V power supply device The Host connector has to be linked with the UF1 USB 3 0 FOL cable and this cable has to be connected directly to the computer The Device connector has to be connected with the pco edge usb camera If you confuse the connections the camera will not be identified by your computer There shouldn t be any damages to your devices if you confuse the connectio
70. rd does not have an onboard USB 3 0 port or the onboard USB 3 0 port does not work properly with a pco USB 3 0 camera please use an independent PCle USB 3 0 extension In this case pco recommends the following DELOCK 89348 U3 PCIE1XG202 10 PCle 1x uPD720202 host controller This board is sent with your pco edge USB 3 0 camera system as standard DELOCK 89325 U3X4 PCIEAXE101 PCle 4x uPD720202 host controller USB 3 0 extension card with xHCIA host controller The following companies manufacture USB 3 0 xHCI host controller Henesas Electronics America Inc earlier NEC Texas Instrument Inc VIA Labs Inc Diamond Fresco Logic Inc Intel Inc AMD Inc and Etron Technology Inc NOTE To determine suitable manufacturers of the controller please use the Windows Device Manager For example Windows 7 drop down the USB Controller entry and find the USB 3 0 host xHCI controller of the USB 3 0 device in the sub tree Then right click to open the properties dialog click the details tab and choose Vendor in the properties pull down box NOTE USB 3 0 interface cards with controllers from Etron Technology Inc have not yet been tested 58 pco following table gives overview about tested and recommended system configurations or hardware components Motherboard USB 3 0 extension card PCle Slot USB 3 0 Cable USB 3 0 Hub Operating System Multiple pco US
71. rts with the corresponding reset of the row Then after a predefined time the exposure is stopped The light induced accumulated charge carriers of the pixels in a row are recorded into memory in a low noise readout mode This results in the total image appearing in memory corresponding to the row readout Timing The exposure and delay time can be adjusted in steps of 10us Camera RS only Camera Link amp pco edge 4 2 USB 3 0 100 us 10s 0 us pco edge gold 4 2 USB 3 0 100 us 60s 0 us Camera Link amp pco edge 5 5 USB 3 0 500 us 2S Ous pco edge gold 5 5 USB 3 0 500 us 10s 0 us 15 15 15 15 1s pco 6 CAMERA CONTROL Timing FPS based The camera will optimize the image recording to achieve au 20010000018 B the selected frame rate with chosen exposure time as close as z Hz mHz 5 Exposure 00 001 000 000 2 possible l EMEEN Only for Auto Sequence trigger mode iJi baed e FPS based mode only available with Camera Link Interface First the frame rate is set If the time required for readout of the image is longer than 1 frame rate then the frame rate will be reduced to 1 frame rate can be adjusted steps of 1 mHz Rolling Shutter If the selected exposure time would require a lower frame rate the exposure time is cut to the maximum possible time at that frame rate Camera RS only Frame rate FPS Based 0 1 35 Hz 95 3 MHz p
72. s See pco drivers pco camera driver camlink Readme txt Select components to install I Matrox Runtime Dil C Silicon Software Dil C Silicon Software Dil MelV C National Runtime DII C SensiCam Dialogs Desktop Icon Space required 32 4MB B16 file handler Description pco software CamWare Setup Completed CamWare Setup Select Installation Folder Choose Install Location Choose the folder in which to install CamWare CamWare setup Setup will install CamWare in the following folder To install in the default folder leave the text below as is To install in a different folder enter one below or click Browse Click Next to continue Destination Folder Space available 120 6GB Space required 32 4MB Coe pco software J Installation Complete All of the components of CamWare were successfully copied to your computer CamWare setup Completed Extract logo b16 100 Extract LogoDS b16 100 Output folder C Program Files Digital Camera Toolbox CamWare Extract uninstall amp 4 exe 100 Output folder C NProgramData Microsoft Windows Start Menu Programs Create folder C ProgramData Microsoft Windows Start Menu Programs Output folder C Program Files Digital Camera Toolbox CamWare Create shortcut C NProgramData Microsoft Windows Start Menu Progra Create shortcut C ProgramData Microsoft Windows
73. s limited The integration will be stopped automatically if the maximum exposure time is achieved exposure time Camera Link 10s pco edge 4 2 USB 3 0 Rolling Shutter 20 s pco edge gold 4 2 USB 3 0 Rolling Shutter 60s Global Shutter 100 ms pco edge 5 5 Camera Link Rolling Shutter 28 Global Reset 25 pco edge 5 5 USB 3 0 Rolling Shutter 2s pco edge gold 5 5 USB 3 0 Rolling Shutter 10s The Busy Status signal at BNC 3 see 6 6 indicates if a new trigger is accepted Exp trig in Exp Stat out Busy Stat out readout x not acc accepted accepted 14 pco 6 2 1 ROLLING SHUTTER k STAT N a S Ting hos Vi F ae ao ai b pst st DE E L m m Timing Exposure 00 001 000 000 4 amp Ims us ns Delay 00 000 000 000 amp Ims usns FPS based In Rolling Shutter mode the pixel reset and exposure start is carried out row by row Each row has the same exposure time but a different start of exposure The pco edge image sensor consists of two discrete halves which are exposed and read out simultaneously i e from the outside to the center Within one row the exposure starts simultaneously for all pixels Available RS readout modes see 7 4 General Timing Diagram readout readout start end first row lt texposure last row gt lt tall rows gt The exposure time of each row sta
74. stalled in the same directory To uninstall the CamWare program please use the Software feature under Windows System Control Please follow the installation wizard Install CamWare as Admin to install to program folder instead it will be installed only to user folder Then choose install directory Interface 6 Choose components Select additional drivers for camera Link After the next two screens installation is complete Le s CamWare Setup V3 13 0000 pco ag Welcome to the CamWare installer This will install version 3 13 0000 64bit CamWare setup Welcome to the CamWare USER Setup Wizard This wizard will guide you through the installation of CamWare It is recommended that you close all other applications before starting Setup To continue click Next Installing as user This will install into user area and not in program files folder In case you like to install to program files folder please install as adminisitrator by clicking Install as admin Install as admin pco software E CamWare Setup Select Components Choose Components Choose which components of CamWare should be installed eceli CamWare setup Select additional driver dlls for pco camera with Cameralink interface Please select only the required dll s Selecting more than one driver dll slows down camera enumeration Make sure that you have installed the appropriate runtime package
75. talled before a pco USB 3 0 camera is connected to a USB 3 0 port of your computer The appropriate driver for the USB 3 0 port could be loaded from the website of the manufacturer of the USB 3 0 host controller or from the website of the USB 3 0 extension card vendor The current driver of the extension card included in the packaging of your pco USB 3 0 camera is added to the pco USB stick delivered with each pco edge NOTE To determine the driver currently in use for the xHCI controller use the Windows Device Manager For example in Win 7 drop down the USB Controller entry and find the USB 3 0 host xHCI controller of the USB 3 0 device in the sub tree Then right click to open the Properties dialog click the driver tab and choose driver details Before the pco edge USB 3 0 camera is connected to the computer the pco USB 3 0 Driver has to be installed see 4 1 Please visit the support section of our website to get the latest USB 3 0 camera driver 59 pco 6 05 3 0 A6 2 INSTALLATION OF THE USB 3 0 CARD An external USB 3 0 Host Controller Card is enclosed to each pco edge USB 3 0 camera Hardware Installation First shut down your computer and install the USB 3 0 Host AN Controller Driver Installation Instructions e Within the provided installation files USB_HBA open the folder U3X4 PCIE4XE101 U3X4 PCIE1XE101 U3 PCIE1XG202 NOTE e Open the subfolder Driver run RENESAS USB3 Host Driver H
76. ter 6 Opens the convert control see chapter 7 6 Auto range peak crop see chapter 7 6 Convert Control Live preview see chapter 5 2 Soft trigger captures a single image see 6 2 Cursor pixel position and intensity value Continuous auto range crop scaling Record START STOP PLAY Opens the recorder settings window see 7 5 Replay navigation Image Browser overview of the recorded images see 7 6 Multi Frame Window see chapter 7 6 32 pco 7 3 THE FILE MENU Camera Acquisition View Window NOTE Open Raw File Be aware of the different storage abilities of the formats for example bmp the bitmap format only allows for 8bit values to be stored and therefore the image content of a 16 bit image is reduced if stored as bitmap Open Raw Recorder Sequence Save Raw File Open RAW File single image only This command should be used to import a single image into ae the currently active image window Only files with the Export Recorder Sequence not reloadable extension and format of b16 PCO proprietary binary image format and tif TIFF image format can be imported If the recorder is enabled each imported image will be transferred to the buffer shown in the picture number The Save Raw Recorder Sequence Print Setup Print Preview Em Print image itself will be fitted to the current image size If the recorder is disabled the current image sizes will be set to Options the parameters o
77. ull soeed and full frame has to be re written 2560 2160 pixel 1 frame 1 5 Byte 12bit dynamic 100 frames s 0 829 GB s The Camera Link interface can transmit this in real time In the future recently introduced machine vision interfaces including CoaXPress and Camera Link HS are capable of transmitting sCMOS image data without any compression A network type interface 10GigE is similar with respect to hardware to Camera Link HS but incorporates all of the known GigE advantages and disadvantages Here the usual protocols are not favorable for image data transmission and any network traffic can dramatically reduce available transmission speed The real time data transmission into the computer allows for a variety of applications since it is free from camera memory limitations Image data can be stored directly in the computer s random access memory RAM up to more than 64 gigabyte With an appropriate RAID system the data can be stored directly to hard disks and there is no delay involved Option 2 Recording in the Camera For high speed imaging applications where data transfer rates are in the range of several GB s it is that the primary image memory camRAM must be peated in the camera Two examples of 56 pco such high speed cameras are the pco dimax with 36 GB of camRAM and the pco dimax HD with 18 GB of camRAM memory This allows for fast recording but just up to the integrated memory
78. y out Exposure out Number of lines 286 MHz fast scan 1 ROI y 10 00 ms max t counted exp In External Exposure Control trigger mode the external signal controls start of image acquisition and duration of the exposure First all pixels are globally reset and these reset values are shifted into so called diffusion nodes From there they are non destructively read out into memory as reset dark images In this mode the exposure starts always after the readout of the dark image is completed The length of the exposure has been detected by the sensor from the trigger input The exposure is stopped by global charge transfer to the diffusion nodes after the respective time Then the exposure image is read out to the memory where the former reset dark image is subtracted to perform an external correlated double sampling which reduces the noise Since two images have to be read out to receive one resulting image and the exposure cannot start during readout time of the dark image this specific Global Shutter mode provides less than half of the frame rate of the Rolling Shutter mode 21 pco 6 CAMERA CONTROL 6 2 3 GLOBAL RESET All pixels are globally reset and the exposure starts for all rows at the same time The exposure stop is carried out row by row therefore the duration of the exposure is not the same for all pixels The rolling readout improves the image quality but due to the difference
79. you agree that any copy of these documents which you make shall retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained herein Each individual document published by PCO may contain other proprietary notices and copyright information relating to that individual document Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication or otherwise any license or right under any patent or trademark of PCO or any third party Except as expressly provided above nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring any license or right under any PCO copyright Note that any product process or technology in this document may be the subject of other intellectual property rights reserved by PCO and may not be licensed hereunder Released January 2015 PCO AG pco edge family User Manual V2 01 PCO AG Germany pco TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 2 SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 3 SYSTEM COMPONENTS 4 INSTALLATION 4 1 CAMERA DRIVER 4 2 CAMWARE 5 QUICK START 5 1 PREPARATION 5 2 START 5 3 YOUR FIRST IMAGE 6 CAMERA CONTROL 6 1 THE CAMERA CONTROL WINDOW 6 2 THE TIMING TAB 6 2 1 ROLLING SHUTTER 6 2 2 GLOBAL SHUTTER 6 2 3 GLOBAL RESET 6 3 THE SENSOR SIZE TAB 6 4 THE SENSOR MISC TAB 6 5 THE RECORDING TAB 6 6 THE I O SIGNALS TAB 7 CAMWARE FEATURES 7 1 IF NO CAMERA IS DETECTED DEMO MODE 7 2 OVERVIEW 7 3 THE FILE MENU 7 4 THE CAMERA MENU 7 5 THE ACQUISITION MENU 7 6 THE VIEW MENU 7 7 THE WINDOW MENU 7 8 TH
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