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P2-2x-xxx40, P2-4x-xxx40, P2-2x-xxx30
Camera User's Manual
Revised 5/4/2011 10:27:00 AM
4-May-11
03-032-00493-14
www.teledynedalsa.com

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  • Page 1 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com P2-2x-xxx40, P2-4x-xxx40, P2-2x-xxx30 Camera User’s Manual Revised 5/4/2011 10:27:00 AM 4-May-11 03-032-00493-14 www.teledynedalsa.com...
  • Page 2 © 2011 Teled yne DALSA. All information provid ed in this manual is believed to be accurate and reliable. N o responsibility is assumed by Teled yne DALSA for its use. Teled yne DALSA reserves the right to make changes to this information w ithout notice. Reprod uction of this manual in w hole or in part, by any means, is prohibited w ithout prior permission having been obtained from Teled yne DALSA.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    3.17 Generating Test Patterns ............................39 3.18 Monitoring the Camera ............................. 40 3.19 Rebooting the Camera ............................... 41 3.20 Setting the Pre-trigger .............................. 41 Optical, Mechanical, and Thermal Considerations _________________________________ 43 4.1 Mechanical Interface ..............................43 4.2 Optical Interface ................................47 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 4 C3 Command Format and Examples ..........................63 C4 Networking Mode ................................. 64 C5 Error Handling ................................67 C6 Camera Parameter Screen ............................70 C7 Commands ..................................73 DC Offset De-rating Curve _________________________________________________ 79 Revision History ________________________________________________________ 81 Index _______________________________________________________________ 85 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 5: Introduction To The Piranha 2 Line Scan Camera

    8 or 10-bit ou tpu t from 10-bit d igitization • 1024, 2048, and 4096 p ixels, 10µm x 10µm , and 4096, 6144 and 8192 pixels, 7m x 7m , 100% fill factor • Line rates u p to 65kH z 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 6 Electronics m anu factu ring inspection  Postal/ parcel sorting  H igh perform ance d ocu m ent scanning/ im age lift  N arrow and large w eb inspection  H igh-end ind u strial inspection 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 7: Image Sensors

    N = 1024 or 2048 CR1B, CR2B, CRLAS T VS S Relative position of package P in 1 Figure 2: IT-P1 4k Image Sensor (2k, 4k (10 µm), 4 tap models) Relative position of package Pin 1 N=2048 or 4096 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 8: Camera Performance Specifications

    FPN , PRN U and noise. If you operate the cam era at faster line rates, su ch as 10kH z or greater, the am ou nt of d ark cu rrent w ill be red u ced by 10x or greater. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 9 4096, 4 o/ p 36.2 6144, 2 o/ p 12.3 6144, 4 o/ p 24.4 8192, 2 o/ p 7.15 8192, 4 o/ p 18.6 Temperature Front plate Temperature °C Temperature d rift before °C recalibration (recommend ation) Sensor Alignment 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 10 . Typical resu lts are the average valu es obtained w ith at a 1kH z line rate and 30°C. Maxim u m resu lts represent the w orst case resu lts from any cam era operating at 50°C w ith a 1kH z line rate. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 11 Measu rem ents taken at m axim u m line rates. Exposu re control enabled to set the m axim u m integration tim e to 200 m icrosecond s. Refer to Ap pend ix D for DC Offset d e-rating cu rves. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 12 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Piranha 2 User’s Manual Figure 5: P2 Responsivity Responsivity, Nominal Gain 10µm pixels 7µm pixels 400 500 1000 Wavelength (nm) 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 13: Camera Hardware Interface

    Diagnostic LED (S ee section 3.18) +12V to +15V and Ground WARNING: It is extremely important that you apply the appropriate voltages to your camera. Incorrect voltages w ill damage the camera. See section 2.4 for more details. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 14: Connectors, Pinouts, And Cables

    PAIR11- inner shield Inner Shield inner shield Inner Shield *Exterior Overshield is connected to the shells of the connectors on both end s. **3M part 14X26-SZLB-XXX-0LC is a com plete cable assem bly, inclu d ing connectors. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 15 See Ap pend ix B for the com plete Cam era Link configu ration table, and refer to the Know led ge Center page on the Teled yne DALSA Web site (w w w .teled yned alsa.com / m v/ know led ge/ appnotes.asp x) for the official Cam era Link d ocu m ents.

  • Page 16: Power Supplies

    EXSYNC The external control signals, EXSYN C and PRIN , are optional and enabled throu gh the to trigger line readout, serial interface. unlike previous DALSA PRIN cameras, which used the rising edg e. PRIN is an optional inpu t signal u sed for exposu re control (PRIN ).

  • Page 17: Data Bus, Camera Link

    Cam era Link Im plem entation Road Map, available from the Know led ge Center page on the Teled yne DALSA w ebsite (w w w .teled yned alsa.com / m v/ know led ge/ appnotes.asp x) for the stand ard location of...
  • Page 18 (AGC) Pixels below threshold LSB Pixels below threshold Derivative line sum LSB Use these values to focus the camera. Generally, the greater the sum the greater the Derivative line sum Mid image contrast Derivative line sum MSB 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 19: Timing

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Piranha 2 User’s Manual 2.7 Timing Figure 6. Piranha 2 Overview Timing Showing Input and Output Relationships Figure 7. Piranha 2 Fixed (Programmed) Integration Timing with External EXSYNC 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 20 . The PRIN signal must be held a minimum time after the EXSYNC falling ed ge to avoid losing the integrated charge tw PR_LOW Minimum Low time to assure complete 2,000 +/ - 200 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 21 Fixed Integration Time mod e of operation for variable exsync frequency. 2,000 138033 (8K2T) tREADOUT Is the number of pixels per tap times the 33, 792 (4K4T) read out clock period . Pretrigger = 0. 67,584 (4K2T) 33,792 (2K2T) 16,896 (1K2T) 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 22: Camera Link Serial Communication

    Cam era featu res can be controlled throu gh the Cam era Link™ serial com m u nication (LVDS, 9600 bau d ). The serial interface u ses sim ple ASCII-based protocol. The follow ing chapter d escribes how to configu re the cam era u sing the serial interface. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 23: Software Interface: How To Control The Camera

    C6 Cam era Param eter Screen on p age 70. 3.2 Command Format • A carriage retu rn (CR) end s each com m and . • Valu es in squ are brackets are optional. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 24: Processing Chain

    –5d b in calibrated m od e and 6d B in u ncalibrated m od e. When sw itching betw een calibrated and u ncalibrated m od es, the cam era au tom atically u ses the correspond ing valu e. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 25: Startup

     To restore the last saved u ser settings and the FPN and PRN U coefficients, u se the rus . com m and Factory Settings User Settings / EEROM restore w rite / restore Current Session 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 26: Setting Baud Rate

    8-bit using ports A/ B and D/ E for d ual processor config uration 10-bit, using A/ B/ C and D/ E/ F for d ual processor configuration gcp . To obtain the cu rrent d ata m od e, u se the com m and 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 27: Setting The Video Mode

    (m od e 2 only) to set the line rate and / or (m od e 2 or 6), to set the exposu re tim e. Refer to Setting Line Rate and Setting Exposu re Tim e below for d etails. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 28 To read the current line rate frequency, use the command gcp.  If you enter an invalid line rate frequency, the valid range of values w ill be d isplayed. Related Command s: sem, set ssf 3000 Example: 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 29: Setting A Region Of Interest

    This inform ation is also u sed for collecting line statistics for calibrating the cam era. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 30 . The cam era d isplays the Min., Max., and Mean statistics. If you are u sing a region of interest, the cam era d isplays the statistics for the region of interest only. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 31: Optimizing Offset Performance

    Optim izing offset perform ance in the analog d om ain allow s you to achieve a better signal-to-noise ratio (d ynam ic range) than you w ou ld achieve by trying to optim ize the offset in the d igital d om ain. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 32 When subtracting a d igital value from the d igital vid eo signal the output can no longer reach its maximum. Use the ssg comm and to correct for this. See section 3.13 Setting Gains for d etails on the ssg command . Example: ssb 0 20 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 33 8 bit: 1 to 100DN 10 bit: 4 to 400DN See section 3.11 Returning Vid eo Information for more information on line averages This command sets offset in uncalibrated mod e (svm 0). Notes: cao 0 100 Example: 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 34: Setting Gains

    This fu nction requ ires a constant light inpu t w hile it execu tes. This featu re is beneficial for achieving a com m on ou tpu t level for m u ltiple cam eras in a system . 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 35: How To Calibrate The Camera

    (balance target) for flat, w hite ou tpu t. Vid eo ou tpu t is set slightly above the brightest pixel (d ep end ing on offset su btracted ). 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 36 Dark calibration is u sed to rem ove the fixed analog offset from the vid eo p ath. It is recom m end ed you repeat the calibration w hen a tem peratu re change greater than 10°C occu rs. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 37 These restrictions are all tested w ithin the calibration algorithm and the cam era w ill report an inform al m essage cod e if any of these cond itions cou ld not be m et. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 38: Setting And Reading Fpn Coefficients

    To set the FPN coefficient, u se the com m and : Syntax: sfc i i Syntax Elements: The pixel number from 1 to the pixel count. Coefficient value in a range from 0 to 127. sfc 10 50 Example: 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 39: Setting And Reading Prnu Coefficients

    0 and 255 for 8-bit d ata Use the m od es, or 0 to 1023 for 10-bit d ata m od es. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 40: Monitoring The Camera

    Monitors current line rate Value Function Disable selected task Enable selected task N ote: by d efau lt all m onitoring tasks are enabled except voltage m o nitoring. Example: enable all monitoring tasks wed 0 1 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 41: Rebooting The Camera

    A pre-trigger m ay be requ ired for som e fram e grabbers. To set the pre-trigger, u se the com m and : sp i Syntax: Syntax Elements: Pretrigger value from 0 to 15. Example: sp 10 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 42 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Piranha 2 User’s Manual 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 43: Optical, Mechanical, And Thermal Considerations

    10°C of stead y state. If you r system cannot perform flat-field correction after w arm -u p consid er the recom m end ed m ethod s of red u cing d ark cu rrent and overall cam era tem peratu res (see below ). 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 44 Both m ethod s— either cond u ction throu gh heat sinking, or convection throu gh air flow — greatly red u ce d ark cu rrent and w ill im prove you r system perform ance. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 45 24.9 46.81 (2x) 49.3 41.6 53.8 (2x) 78.0 (2x) 78.0 (2X) (2x) 85.0 Units: mm M3x0.5 (4x) Camera assembly with 7.5 (2X) 70.0 (2X) Camera assembly with F-mount lens adapter C-mount lens adapter Scale (1:2) Scale (1:2) 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 46 M3x0.5 - 6H P OWER 42.50±0.18 13.0 5.0 deep Pixel 1 7.5 (2x) 61.0 (2x) (4x) 16.0 10.0 22.9 6.56±0.25 3.5 (2x) 69.0 Optical distance (active area to front M3x0.5 - 6H plate mount surface) 6.0 deep (4x) 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 47: Optical Interface

    For exam ple, 5J/ cm can be achieved by exposing 5m W/ cm for 1m s ju st the sam e as exposing an intensity of 5W/ cm for 1s. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 48 (d esired object resolu tion size). By sim ilar triangles, the m agnification is alternatively given by:   These equ ations can be com bined to give their m ost u sefu l form : 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 49: Compliance

    Follow these specific gu id elines to ensu re best perform ance: • Keep Cam era Link cables as short as p ossible. • Ensu re that all cable shield s have 360 electrical connection to the connector. • Fasten and secu re all connectors. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 50 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Piranha 2 User’s Manual 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 51: Ccd Handling Instructions

    H ow ever, the friction betw een the ru bber and the w ind ow m ay prod u ce electrostatic charge that m ay d am age the sensor. To avoid ESD d am age and 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 52: Cleaning The Sensor Window

    5. Wipe the w ind ow carefu lly and slow ly. 6. When cleaning long linear sensors, it m ay be easier to w ip e along the w id th (i.e. as opp osed to the length) of the sensor. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 53: Troubleshooting

    (EXSYN C or PRIN ). PRIN PRIN is an optional inpu t signal u sed to control exposu re control (PRIN ). 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 54: Troubleshooting Using The Serial Interface

    (refer to the u ser cao or sao com m and s. Und er specifications). Ad ju st the analog offset u sing the light cond itions, you shou ld receive a valu e. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 55: Specific Solutions

    Do not attach w ires to u nu sed pins. Verify that the cam era is not receiving spu riou s inpu ts (e.g. EXSYN C or PRIN , if cam era is in exposu re m od e that regu lates external signals). 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 56 Probe the ou tpu t lines w ith an oscilloscope. Disconnect the d igital cable from the cam era and check the d igital signals at the ou tpu t of the cam era. Ensu re that the correct valu es 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 57 If you have verified that you r exposu re tim e is consistent and patterns of low frequ ency intensity variations still occu r, ensu re that you are u sing a DC or high frequ ency light sou rce. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 58 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Piranha 2 User’s Manual 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 59: Camera Link™ Reference

    All fou r enable signals m u st be provid ed by the cam era on each Channel Link chip. All u nu sed d ata bits m u st be tied to a know n valu e by the cam era. For m ore inform ation on 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 60 Pow er w ill not be provid ed on the Cam era Link connector. The cam era w ill receive pow er throu gh a sep arate cable. Cam era m anu factu rers d efine their ow n pow er connector, cu rrent, and voltage requ irem ents. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 61: Emc Declaration Of Conformity

    Waterloo, ON , CAN ADA Date of Issu e October 2003 N am e and Signatu re Hank Helmond Quality Manager, Teledyne D ALSA Corp. of au thorized person This Declaration correspond s to EN 45 014. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 62 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Piranha 2 User’s Manual 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 63: Communications Protocol

    The cam era w ill an sw er each com m and w ith either "OK >" or "Error x: Error Message >". The ">" is alw ays the last character sent by the cam era. Command Format command_long/short_form [parameters…] CR Example: to set the gain to –3.5dB on all taps set_gain 0 –3.5 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 64: C4 Networking Mode

    The netw ork com m and is an ord inary cam era com m and p refixed by a netw ork p refix. N etw ork prefixes alw ays start w ith the colon character ":" and are follow ed im m ed iately 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 65 The controlling softw are m u st w ait for a reply from the cam era before send ing the next com m and . Cam era w ill not reply to the Broad cast com m and . 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 66 To enable/ d isable cam era m essages u nrelated to the execu ted com m and , su ch as snm i . initialization and m onitoring task m essages, u se the com m and Value Function Enable messages, d efault Disable messages 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 67: C5 Error Handling

    VIDEO TEST mod e roi: invalid starting or end ing pixel ind ex Start value must be an od d number less than the even numbered end value Camera memory check failure Memory test of external RAM failed 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 68 USER/ FACTORY settings settings failed (internal micro EE memory failure). Contact your DALSA representative or Prod uct Support if this error cod e is returned . rus, rfs attempted but settings w ere not Camera settings not saved saved .
  • Page 69 WARNIN G: External PRIN Exposure Mod e 2: external PRIN not not d etected d etected WARNIN G: Analog gain is Current analog gain setting is out of over/ und er the specification specification 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 70: C6 Camera Parameter Screen

    Gains for d etails. Analog Offset: 308 324 304 292 Analog offset value set w ith the sao and cag command . The cag command is available only in uncalibrated mod e (svm 1). See section 3.12 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 71 0 command had been issued . SETTINGS COMMON TO CALIBRATED AND UNCALIBRATED MODES: System Gain: 0 0 0 0 Digital gain value set w ith the ssg command . See section 3.13 Setting Gains for d etails. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 72 Setting Line Rate and Exposure Mod e for details. End-Of-Line Sequence: States w hether an end of line sequence is turned on or off. Set using the eol command . See section 3.17 Generating Test Patterns for d etails. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 73: C7 Commands

    Use css to set sample size. Values range from 64 to 251DN for 8-bit mod e and 256 to 1007DN for 10-bit. correction_set_sample Set number of line samples averaged for pixel coefficient calculations or for output of 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 74 Set the pixel range for read ing end -of-line statistic and for the region of pixels used in the cag, cao, gl, gla, ccf, and ccp command s. Pixel start and end values in a range from 1 to 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 75 PRNU correction. The first parameter is the tap selection 1 to 4, 0 for all taps. The second parameter is the offset in a range from 0 to 511. Use in calibrated mod e only. 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 76 0 or 15. set_prnu_coeff Set the PRNU coefficient. The first parameter is the pixel number w ithin the range 1 to 8192. The second parameter is a specified value w ithin the range 0 to 511w here: 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 77 Write all current pixel coefficients to EEROM. w rite_user_settings Write all of the user settings to EEROM except pixel coefficients w hich are w ritten using the wpc command . 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 78 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Piranha 2 User’s Manual 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 79: Dc Offset De-Rating Curve

    Ad d ing cooling to red u ce tem peratu re. Refer to the Therm al Managem ent section on page 43 for m ore inform ation.  Operating the cam era at higher line rate and averaging or d iscard ing the extra lines 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 80 27.5 36.5 65.5 Camera internal Temperature C Notes:  Cam era am bient tem peratu re is ap proxim ately 15°C less than the internal cam era tem peratu re.  Cam era gain is 10d B 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 81: Revision History

    It is now referenced to section 3.18. In section 3.16, page 39, and Append ix B, All Available Com mand s table, ad d ed equation for d etermining the PRNU coefficient for the spc command . 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 82 Pow er Supply Current (Vin = +12V) 4096 - 2/ 4 o/ p 500/ 700 4096(10um) - 2 o/ p 600 4096(10um) - 4 o/ p 800 6144 - 2/ 4 o/ p 600/ 800 8192 - 2/ 4 o/ p 620/ 840 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 83 ―3. The variance in light intensity across the target must not be more than 4 to 1. Becau se the maximum per -pixel digital gain is 2x, the camera w ill not be able to com pensate for extremely non -uniform light.‖ 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 84 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Piranha 2 User’s Manual 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

  • Page 85: Index

    44 exteranl sync, 17 d ark patches, 56 PRIN, 16 Data Bus, 17 interface d ata mod e, 26 mechanical, 43 d ebugging, 18, 39, 53 optical, 47 d igital d ata, 17 serial, 23 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...
  • Page 86 30, 59 operating requirements, 9 voltage operational status of camera, 40 measurement, 41 optical interface, 47 output mod e, 26 w arning messages, 40 w hite light calibration, 37 performance, 9 pixel statistics, 29 03-032-00493-14 Teledyne DALSA...

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