Machine-vision colour inspection accelerated

MultiPix announce the Grablink Quickpack CFA (Colour Filter Array) with flexible and high-performance image acquisition and pre-processing board dedicated to area scan colour inspection. A set of dedicated on-board pre-processing functions speeds up image processing for applications such as PCB, food or pharmaceutical inspection without loading the host CPU. These functions include a Bayer pattern decoder and a luminance blender providing simultaneous Y and RGB output for monochrome and colour inspection.

An optional white balance is computed on automatically selected white pixels or on a user-defined 'region of interest'.

Finally, four independent LUT operators are available for the R, G, B and Y components.

The Grablink Quickpack CFA interfaces Base configuration Camera Link area scan cameras up to 85 MHz and it processes 8,10 or 12bit images.

The board has a 128 MB memory and a 64-bit, 66 MHz Conventional PCI bus offering 240 MB/s of delivery bandwidth.

Quickpack CFA features nine general-purpose I/O lines to ease the board integration into industrial systems.