10 gigE camera and NI Vision driver

[larry2]

hi, our 1-gige camera operates very well in Labview-Vision - using the full bandwith, i.e. 640x240 8-bit monochrome at 380 fps. we would like to have HD resolution at 500 to 1000 fps.that seems to fit into the specs for 10 gigE. . when will such a camera will be available and when NI will have driver to support it? thanks for your time and efforts.

[BlueCheese]

Hi.

The extensions for 10Gbit support were added to the 2.0 version of the GigE Vision standard but they were really just a formality as the protocol itself is speed-independent. The camera devices supporting 10Gbit I've seen in the field (as of today) are mostly limited to converter boxes designed for converting CameraLink to 10GbE.

Technically IMAQdx should support it using our standard driver (the High-Performance Driver is limited to 1-gigabit hardware right now). However, the performance you see may not be acceptable at those high rates and we have not done any testing of this.

If you have some flexibility, another option to consider is USB3. The newly released USB3 Vision standard will be supported by IMAQdx quite soon and there should be cameras released shortly from many vendors using this standard. This allows up to ~400MB/sec.

Eric

[larry2]

 >The camera devices supporting 10Gbit I've seen in the field (as of today) are mostly limited to converter boxes designed for converting CameraLink to 10GbE.

the converter for CameraLink looks too complicated for our deployment.

we have pc indoors, 100 ft cable to outside camera... all weather.

>Technically IMAQdx should support it using our standard driver (the High-Performance Driver is limited to 1-gigabit hardware right now). However, the performance you see may not be acceptable at those high rates and we have not done any testing of this.

the IMAQdx driver is known to work with the Intel chipset for 1G.

ideally, i'd like IMAQdx at 10G ... directly to a 10G camera... i don't see any 10G cameras on the market and a Basler rep told me not to expect one during 2013.

perhaps another vendor will get to market sooner.(?)

>If you have some flexibility, another option to consider is USB3. The newly released USB3 Vision standard will be supported by IMAQdx quite soon and there should be cameras released shortly from many vendors using this standard. This allows up to ~400MB/sec

what are cable length limits on USB3.... will it go 100ft?

thanks for your input.

[BlueCheese · Accepted solution]

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@larry2 wrote:

what are cable length limits on USB3.... will it go 100ft?

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Cable length using standard cables is likely to be much shorter (think several meters, with active copper cables pushing into the tens of meters perhaps). However, there are several fiber optic converters that should work well that are entering the market (such as http://www.icron.com/products/icron-brand/usb-extenders/fiber/usb-3-0-spectra-3022/) that should let you go much longer.

Eric