Framegrabber enters the digital arena

The Bandit-II Digital is a digital framegrabber with integrated display that lets OEMs take advantage of the improved image quality resulting from using digital LVDS cameras.

The Bandit-II Digital is a digital framegrabber with integrated display that lets OEMs take advantage of the improved image quality resulting from using digital LVDS cameras.

The new framegrabber builds on the success of the Bandit-II series, a family of framegrabbers integrating flexible acquisition and high-resolution true colour display controllers into a single slot PCI or AGP board.

The Bandit-II Digital supports multitap digital cameras configured for 8, 10 or 12bit/pixel at high-speed digitisation rates up to 60MHz and at resolutions up to 2048 x 2048.

With interrupt-driven, dedicated I/Os, the Bandit-II Digital provides real-time control and ensures reliability in high-speed applications, such as semiconductor, pharmaceutical and general-purpose machine vision.

An external clock enables highly accurate image acquisition, while flexible external trigger modes allow external process synchronisation.

Images acquired by the Bandit-II Digital are transferred in real time to system memory with no CPU usage, freeing the CPU to perform other critical tasks.

The framegrabber's onboard display controller can display high-resolution VGA and TV formats simultaneously and can work alongside or instead of the computers existing VGA card for increased application flexibility.

Having onboard display, the card can provide features such as hardware non destructive overlays, image flip and mirroring as well as DMA pull, a capability where processed image data is pulled back to the display without CPU intervention.

The Bandit II range consists of three other models, the Bandit II CV for interfacing with standard free running composite cameras, the Bandit MV for interfacing to asynchronous and progressive scan cameras and the RGB with all the functionality of the other two with full colour capability as well.

The MV and RGB can also be fitted with a digital module providing one of the most flexible acquisition devices available.

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