Advanced PCIe x8 image acquisition
Building on the field proven technology and performance of Teledyne DALSA’s X64 frame grabbers
the new X64 Xcelera Series leverages the PCI Express (PCIe) platform to bring traditional image
acquisition and processing technology to new levels of performance and flexibility.
The PCIe host interface is a point-to-point host interface allowing simultaneous image acquisition
and transfer without loading the system bus and involving little intervention from the host CPU.
Designed with the requirements of the machine vision OEMs in mind, the Xcelera Series will range
from entry level frame grabbers, to high-performance image acquisition boards,
to embedded vision processors.

Addressing the emerging needs of bandwidth-hungry machine vision applications, Teledyne DALSA’s
Xcelera Series is defining next generation frame grabber capabilities with the ability to deliver
bandwidth beyond 1GByte/s over multiple-lane PCI Express implementations with room to grow.
The X64 Xcelera-CL PX8 Full is a Camera Link frame grabber that is based on the PCI Express x8
interface. Compatible with a Base, Medium or Full Camera Link?
camera, the X64 Xcelera-CL PX8
Full supports a wide variety of multi-tap area and line scan colour and monochrome cameras. The
X64 Xcelera-CL PX8 Full board can interface with advanced Camera Link camera output formats
including 10-taps of 8-bit/pixel or 8-taps of 10-bit/pixel at 85MHz pixel clock rates.

The X64 Xcelera-CL PX8 Full has been built within Teledyne DALSA’s Trigger-to-Image Reliability
technology framework. Trigger-to-Image Reliability leverages Teledyne DALSA’s hardware and
software innovations to control, monitor and correct the image acquisition process from the
time that an external trigger event occurs to the moment the data is sent to the host, providing
traceability when errors do occur and permitting recovery from those errors.

Key Features
? Half-length PCI Express x8 Board
? Acquires images from one Base,
Medium or Full Camera Link?
camera
? Rapid image acquisition and transfer
rates beyond 1GB/s
? Supports Camera Link operations
up to 85MHz
? Extended feature set supports advanced
Camera Link pixel/tap configurations
? Windows?
XP and Windows 7
(32/64-bit) compatible
? ROHS compliant
? On-board FPGA based real-time Bayer
decoding and shading correction
? Power Over Camera Link (PoCL)
Compliant
? Teledyne DALSA Platform Development
Advantage – Free Run-time Licensing

Software Support
All of the frame grabbers in the Xcelera series are supported by Teledyne DALSA’s Sapera Vision
Software packages:
Sapera Essential, the core development platform, includes over 400 image processing primitive and
industrial strength image analysis tools such as pattern finding, 1D and 2D barcode and OCR tools
for part identification and detection, color processing tool, separation and measurement applications,
blob analysis tool and inspection metrology tool for real-world dimensional measurements.
Teledyne DALSA Platform Development Advantage - Free Run-Time Licensing
The Sapera Essential standard processing tool run-time license is offered at no additional charge
when combined with the Teledyne DALSA frame grabbers. This software run-time license1
includes
access to image processing functions, area-based (normalized correlation based) template matching tool, blob analysis and lens correction tool.

Sapera Nitrous accelerates Sapera Essential applications by providing a seamless support for
graphical processing units (GPU) and multi-core CPUs optimization (MCO).
Sapera Architect Plus gives system integrators and industrial vision automation specialists a userfriendly, non-programming graphical environment to quickly prototype and test drive application
specific imaging tools within Sapera Essential and Sapera Nitrous.