Sending Action Commands via Firmware (GigE Vision)
You can send action commands not only via software, but also via the firmware of your Silicon Software frame grabber(s) to the connected GigE Vision cameras.
For each camera channel, one dedicated action command is available in the firmware. Which action is carried out by the camera when it receives the action command, you define via software.
The sending of an action command to the camera is triggered by the applet: In specific situations defined by the applet design, the applet sends an action command trigger signal to the firmware. On detecting a rising edge of this trigger signal, the firmware sends the preconfigured action command to the GigE Vision camera.
The firmware sends the action command to the camera with a fix latency of 2000 ns +/- 16 ns. This means, the time gap between the detection of the rising edge of the action command trigger signal by the firmware and the actual sending of the action command by the firmware is always 2000 ns +/- 16 ns.
The index number of the action command is the same as the index number of the connected camera port. There is a 1:1 connection between the action command trigger in VisualApplets and the corresponding GigE Vision camera.