IMAQ compatibility PCI board

[bimbim]

Hello,

I'd like to know if it's possible to use others PCI video acquisition boards with IMAQ functions?

If true, could you give me a list of compatible manufacturers?

Thank you in advance

Bim

[bimbim]

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[mfitzsimons]

Bim,

I found this link on NI's WEB site that may help you.

http://ohm.ni.com/advisors/board?productFamily=Image%20Acquisition

You can use any board as long as you can "talk" to it using LabVIEW.  I use a board that has a full set of ActiveX controls that I use to acquire the image and save it to disk.  I then use IMAQ Read to read the image into IMAQ format.  Once it is in IMAQ format you can do anything to the image.  A bit cumbersome but the only option I had.

I would further recommend that if NI has a board that you can use then use it.  You are not going to make things any easier by using a third party board.  The NI boards do cost more but integrate easily into the test system.

Matt

Message Edited by mfitzsimons on 10-12-2005 01:21 PM

[ChristopheS.]

Hello,

You can use driver NI-Imaq only with National Instrument Board, because this driver has been created for N. I. Board.

You can use Ni-imaq for IEE1394 for camera that can be connected in IEE-1394.

See this link below to see wich camera is supported :

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/AC7801CA6353287F86256FA2000CF525?OpenDocument

You can use NI IMAQ VISION Tools for make analyse of you bitmap.

Regards,

Christophe

[mfitzsimons]

Christophe,

Not sure where you are going with this but I will try to answer.  If you are using a 1394 Firewire Card it doesn’t have to be NI’s.  It does need to be:

Fully supports version 2.0 of the IEEE 1394 standard for high-speed serial bus communication

100% compliant with open host controller interface (OHCI) requirements

You want to use .BMP files only for vision analysis because they are uncompressed.  Using a compressed image file like .jpg or .png will cause unexpected results.

Matt

[ChristopheS.]

Hi Matt,

Sure, it's right, you can use NI-imaq for IEE-1394 for any camera if they are Fully supports version 2.0 of the IEEE 1394 standard for high-speed serial bus communication.

Regards,

Christophe.