In the specialist image-grabbing market, Active Silicon is probably one of the most respected UK innovators of leading-edge vision technologies. The Phoenix frame grabbers offer an exceptionally high transfer rate, with an elegantly optimised architecture that is future-proof and scalable. The new PCI Express format will deliver those attributes to further applications alongside the existing industry standard formats that include PMC, PCI, CompactPCI and PC/104-Plus.

This new addition supports the performance potential of the latest generation of multi-tap, high speed cameras. The D24CL-PE1 supports a single Base camera at 66MHz pixel clock rates.

The Phoenix range is supported worldwide and compatible with all the most popular (and many specialist) operating systems, including Windows XP and Linux (both 32-bit and 64-bit variants) …plus DOS, VxWorks, Solaris, Mac OS X and QNX. Other advantages include an easy to use software development kit, which allows integrators to develop applications quickly and simply, together with a range of built-in third-party image analysis software drivers for packages such as Common Vision Blox, StreamPix, MATLAB and LabVIEW.

Best of all, customers will have direct access to Active Silicon for machine vision system advice, consultancy and system integration work to ensure successful completion of end-user applications.