Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Mon, 17 Feb 2014 02:40:52 +0000

Folks,

I've now received this USB-3.0 CMOS  camera that I referred to in my message of December 18, and I've now written an areaDetector driver using the Point Grey FlyCapture2 SDK.

I am able to get 160 frames/s at full resolution (1920 x 1280), 8-bit data. I can get 80 frames/s at 16-bit resolution. Both of these values are basically what Point Grey specifies for the camera. The data rate in both cases is 375 MB/s, which is over 3 times faster than GigE.

The driver I've written also works with Point Grey Firewire cameras (which I have tested), and should work with their GigE cameras (I should be able to test that next week).  The new driver exposes features of the Point Grey Firewire cameras, such as strobe outputs, that are not available through the generic Linux and Windows areaDetector Firewire drivers.

The documentation is here:
http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/epics/PointGreyDoc.html

The driver is here:
https://github.com/areaDetector/ADPointGrey

Cheers,
Mark

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 8:35 AM
To: Mark Rivers; [email protected]
Subject: RE: areaDetector driver for Point Grey FlyCapture2 SDK?

Hi Mark,

That does look like an interesting sensor. So interesting that I fired off an email to the AVT sales rep. He says "[Sony] will start mass producing the sensor in Q2/3 of 2014 and AVT will bring out a Mako version of it on GigE and USB3.0 shortly after that". I have tested the G125 version of the Mako with aravisGigE and it works fine, so if you don't find time to write an areaDetector driver for the flycapture SDK you could wait for that. Of course if you need 1920x1200 at 162fps it won't fit down a gigabit ethernet connection, so it will be interesting to see what they offer for the GigE version of the IMX174 Mako...

Thanks,
Tom Cobb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-talk-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Rivers
> Sent: 18 December 2013 13:16
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: areaDetector driver for Point Grey FlyCapture2 SDK?
>
> Folks,
>
> Has anyone written an areaDetector driver that uses the Point Grey
> FlyCapture2 SDK? I am planning to purchase this very interesting new
> camera:
>
> http://ww2.ptgrey.com/Sensors/IMX174/IMX174_IntroductionPage.aspx
>
> 1920x1200 CMOS
> Global shutter
> 162 frames/s
> 7 e- read noise
> 76% quantum efficiency
> 32500 e- full-well capacity
> USB 3.0 interface
> $1,295
>
> Since it is USB 3.0 I believe the areaDetector Aravis GigE driver can't
> be used, and I need a driver written using their FlyCapture2 SDK.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

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