Software Requirements

VisualApplets and some additional software needs to be installed on the PC that you use for applet development. This is typically another PC than the PC that you use as the host PC within your image processing application.

Software Installations required for Applet Development

Installations required for image acquisition

You need to install the following software on the PC that you want to use for applet development:

  1. The actual VisualApplets program (comes as an *.exe installer file)
  2. VisualApplets IDE license (on USB dongle)
  3. Xilinx Design Suite (ISE® or Vivado®), required for building the applet
  4. C++ Compiler (required for compiling the SDK examples)
  5. Silicon Software Runtime Software:
    • Runtime environment Version 5.5.1 (or higher) for running Applets built with VisualApplets 3.0.6 (or higher) on mE5 marathon VCL and LightBridge VCL in PoCL mode.
    • Runtime environment Version 5.4.0 (or higher) for running Applets built with VisualApplets 3.0.6 (or higher) on mE5 marathon VCL and LightBridge VCL with external powering of camera (non-PoCL mode).
    • Runtime environment Version 5.4.0 (or higher) for running Applets built with VisualApplets version 3 to 3.0.5 on mE5 marathon VCL and LightBridge VCL (PoCL and non-PoCL mode).

    For installation instructions, refer to section Installing the Runtime Software .

 

VisualApplets Licensing and Hardware Dongle

 

For building the applet, you also need to acquire the Silicon Software VisualApplets IDE license and to plug in the USB-dongle version 2 that contains the license. For details, see section VisualApplets Licensing.