The Axion Family
4/29/2024
Introducing The Axion
Camera Link has proved itself to be low cost, high speed, robust and adaptable. For true machine vision applications, it has become the market leading interconnect standard. Advantech has continued to refine and improve our products, and is proud to introduce its 6th generation Camera Link frame grabber. Everything we have learned over the past years, including many refinements from the world of CoaXPress, has been rolled into the Axion.
Borrowing from the Cyton
The Cyton is Advantech’s latest line of CXP 1.1 frame grabbers, and this family was designed from scratch for the Machine Vision industry. Many of the new features introduced on the Cyton have been ported to the Axion. This includes a highly optimized DMA engine. The StreamSync acquisition engine and buffer manager have also been ported. The Timing Sequencer, I/O capabilities and Frame Sequencer have been moved over. This is an amazing amount of power at your finger tips, ready to solve your real world Machine Vision problems.
Camera Compatibility
The Axion-CL has been designed to work with all of the popular high speed Camera Link cameras. It’s been design to handle all of the 80-bit cameras currently on the market. In fact it can acquire from two 80-bit/85 MHz cameras simultaneously. Of course, all base/medium/full Camera Link cameras are supported.
Application Support
Adding the Axion-CL to your application is simple with our SDK, which supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. Applications can be developed using C/C++/.NET and our sophisticated buffer management APIs. In addition, free drivers can be downloaded from our web site for most 3rd party machine vision packages. The Axion-CL is software compatible with all the other current Advantech frame grabbers. This makes migrating applications to/ from Camera Link, Analog, and CoaXPress simple and quick.
And of course...
Of course, the Axion-CL has all the encoders, triggers and generic I/O that you have come to expect from BitFlow. No Machine Vision challenge is too complicated for the Axion-CL.
