Release Notes
Acquisition Applets Set for
New features:
- Line AcquisitionApplets will now allow mapping of trigger signals to any digital outputs (on GPIO and Front GPIO) and camera trigger outputs (CC signals or CPX/CLHS camera trigger signals). Signal sources can be for example Exsync, Flash, GPIs, LVAL and FVAL. (In earlier versions, the signals were assigned to dedicated GPOs.) (7704)
- Line AcquisitionApplets now include a statistics module to count signal edges and to measure periods. This can be used to monitor the trigger system, to detect encoder signals with jitter and to record lost trigger signals. (7704)
- The maximum image dimensions have been extended.
- A minimum image height =1 can be set for line applets now. (7827)
- The ROI step size for x is smaller now, allowing a finer definition of ROI. (7347)
Changes and bug fixes:
- The Camera Link formats MEDIUM 10 bit RGB and 12 bit RGB are correctly interpreted now. (In earlier versions, color components green and blue had been swapped. Fixed.) (7477)
- The applets Acq_SingleFullLineBayer_RB_GG and Acq_SingleFullLineBayer_RG_GB now support the full camera bandwidth. (In earlier versions, the bandwidth was limited. Fixed.) (7940)
- Bayer pattern applets: If mirroring is activated, the Bayer pattern settings are adapted accordingly. (In earlier versions, you had to adapt the interpretation of a mirrored image. Fixed.) (8113)
- Acq_SingleFullLineBayer_RB_GG: Applet Acq_SingleFullLineBayer_RB_GG now uses correct color interpolation. (In earlier versions (2.0 or lower), colors red and blue were swapped in double sampling mode. Fixed.) If you used a previous version you will need to correct the Bayer pattern to the correct value.
Release notes for previous applet set releases:
Release Notes Acquisition Applets Set for LightBridge 2 VCL, Version 2.0
New Features:
- On boards running applets in version 2.0 or higher, automatic PoCL detection is de-activated per default. To use an applet version 2.0 or higher together with a PoCL camera, the user needs to activate the PoCL detection feature via microDiagnostics (menu Tools -> Board Settings).
- Three new bi-linear bayer line applets are included in the applet set:
- Acq_DualBaseLineBayer_RG_GB
- Acq_SingleFullLineBayer_RB_GG
- Acq_SingleFullLineBayer_RG_GB
- The tap sorting options have been extended for some Camera Link line applets. The following new tap sorting modes have been added to the following applets:
- Acq_SingleFullLineGray and Acq_SingleFullLineRGB: Tap sorting mode 4X2E is supported now, too. (6876)
- Acq_SingleMediumLineGray and Acq_SingleMediumLineRGB: Tap sorting modes 4XE and 4X2E are supported now, too. (6876)
Changes:
- Line Applets: The maximum value of the parameters FG_IMGTRIGGERGATEDELAY and FG_STROBEPULSEDELAY has been extended to 65535 lines. (6848)
- Line Applets: When defining the line trigger, via parameter FG_IMGTRIGGERINSRC an external trigger or a software trigger can be selected now. (In earlier applet versions, the option to select a software trigger was missing. Fixed.) (6483)
- Applet Acq_SingleFullAreaGray now also supports output bit depth 10 bit packed.
Release Notes Acquisition Applets Set for LightBridge 2 VCL, Version 1.7
New Features:
- All applets support tab geometry sorting (also known as sensor correction or tab sensor correction).
- All applets support mirroring.
Changes:
- The PoCL detect mechanism has been further enhanced.
- Support of POCL cameras that are changing their clock frequency: The clock is suspended for a longer time now.
Release Notes Acquisition Applets Set for LightBridge 2 VCL, Version 1.6
Bugfixes:
- Applet Acq_DualBaseLineGray.dll has been fixed and works correctly now.
- Area trigger module: External area trigger has been fixed and works correctly now in all area scan acquisition applets.
Release Notes Acquisition Applets Set for LightBridge 2 VCL, Version 1.5
- Tap geometry sorting in gray-scale line scan applets: All gray-scale line scan applets support tap geometry sorting now. This is the first introduction of the tap geometry sorting feature. Enhancements may follow. Tap sorting also allows various mirroring functions.The following applets support tap geometry sorting:
- Acq_DualBaseLineGray (supporting 1, 2, 3, and 4 taps)
- Acq_SingleFullLineGray (supporting 8 and 10 taps)
- Acq_SingleMediumLineGray (supporting 1, 2, 3, and 4 taps)
- Image width limit enlarged to 16 k: All contained applets allow a maximum image width of 16k.
- Enhanced PCIe stability: During Silicon Software’s performance and validation tests, QA engineers found around 0.1% of mainboards that did not recognize marathon framegrabbers in every case (during 2000 cold boot cycles). This was a known issue in the Xilinx PCIe core and has been improved with the latest version.
- Enhanced PoCL detection mechanism: Further enhancements of PoCL detection mechanism by enhancing the PoCL controller and by implementing a securing time gap between sensing that a camera is not PoCL-compatible and connecting GND.
- CC mapping in line applets: The mapping of Encoder A/B input signals to image trigger signals (CC) has been corrected. External signals (like encoder signals) can be transferred to the camera as CC signals. (In earlier versions, only internal signals could be mapped to CC signals.)
- Frame grabber test applet: The new applet set version contains a hardware test applet that allows to test the functions of the frame grabber (like DMA performance, RAM, triggering, GPIO, events, etc.).
Release Notes Acquisition Applets Set for LightBridge 2 VCL, Version 1.4
- All applets provide an enhanced PoCL detect mechanism now. The risk of overvoltage at plugin of an externally powered camera is tremendously reduced and can be neglected now.
- Correction of applets Acq_SingleFullAreaBayer, Acq_SingleFullAreaGray, and Acq_SingleFullAreaRGB: These applets showed a bug in 80 bit mode area scan (8tapx10bit und 10tapx8bit) that in specific situations caused the loss of one line within frames. Fixed.
Release Notes Acquisition Applets Set for LightBridge 2 VCL, Version 1.3
New Features:
- Pixel clock on Camera Link channels can be monitored now via the new applet parameters
- PixelClock
- PixelClockX
- PixelClockY
- PixelClockZ
- New applet parameter for specific support issues implemented (parameter CameraLinkCoreReset).
Release Notes Acquisition Applets Set for LightBridge 2 VCL, Version 1.2
- Bugfix: Memory leak when configuring applets via MCF file - fixed. When Fg_LoadConfig() is called, the applet parameters are changed according to the used *.mcf configuration file without the need of additional memory space. (In earlier versions, every time Fg_LoadConfig() was called, new memory space was allocated and not released until the program was stopped. Fixed.)
Release Notes Acquisition Applets Set for LightBridge 2 VCL, Version 1.1
The line trigger functionality of
- Acq_DualBaseLineRGB
- Acq_SingleFullLineRGB
Corrected: Mapping of input signals at Front GPIO.
Release Notes Acquisition Applets Set for LightBridge 2 VCL, Version 1.0
Version 1.0 is the first officially published version of this Acquisition Applets installer.