[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and a global leader in machine vision technology, today unveiled the Xtium-CL PX4, the first member of a new series of frame grabbers designed for Camera Link®, Camera Link HS™, and CoaXPress. This advanced frame grabber series is based on the latest PCI Express™ Rev 2.0 host interface to deliver a bandwidth of over 1.7 GB/s, while at the same time supporting PCIe Gen 1.0 slot to deliver 850 MB/s.

The new Xtium series delivers higher bandwidth to sustain Camera Link 80-Bit modes over longer cable distances and supports a wide variety of area and line scan color and monochrome cameras, all in a compact, single slot solution.

“The Xtium series has been engineered to meet the emerging demands of high speed, high bandwidth cameras,” said Inder Kohli, Teledyne DALSA Product Manager. “We have designed a compact, flexible image acquisition and processing platform that supports multiple interfaces and delivers two times the sustained host transfer bandwidth across extended cable lengths.”