Accessing Camera Registers Directly

You can access camera registers directly - without using the GenICam layer. You have direct read and write access.

This is helpful when you want to access a camera register that holds content not defined by the GenICam standard.

Requirements: 

To get read/write access to a camera register:

  1. Start microDisplay.
    You find microDisplayX.exe in your Silicon Software runtime installation directory, sub-directory bin (for example: C:\Program Files\SiliconSoftware\Runtime5.7.0\bin\microDisplayX.exe).
  1. Go to tab Cameras.

  1. Select the frame grabber that is connected to the cameras you want to configure.
    The cameras connected to this frame grabber are listed in panel below (panel Model (UID):

  1. Select a camera in panel Model (UID) to work on this specific camera.



  1. Go to tab Direct Register Access to configure the camera.

  1. Access the register(s) you need:

Read Access:

  1. Under Read Register, enter the address of the register into field Address.
  2. Click the Read button to read the value currently stored in the register.

Write Access:

  1. Under Write Register, enter the address of the register into field Address.
  2. Enter the value you want to write into the register into field Value.
  3. Click the Write button to write the new value into the register.