Envision Xenics Gobi-640-17mm, Xenics Gobi-384-25mm User Manual

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Gobi-640-17µm and Gobi-384-25µm-GigE, CL, CXP Camera

User Manual

Gobi-640-17µm GigE/CL/CXP Camera and

Gobi-384-25µm GigE/CL Camera

ENG-2012-UMN007-R003

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Disclaimer

All products manufactured by Xenics nv are warranted as laid down in the sales conditions.
Xenics nv has no other obligation or liability for defects than those set forth therein.
No other warranty is expressed or implied. Xenics nv specifically disclaims the implied warranties of merchantability and

fitness for a particular purpose.
This warranty will no longer be valid if the instructions contained herein are not followed.
Xenics nv shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential loss of damage, whether based on

contract, tort, product liability or any other legal theory.

Copyright/Intellectual Property Rights

© Xenics nv 2014.
All rights reserved worldwide.
This document must not, in whole or part, be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated or transmitted to any electronic

medium or machine readable form without written permission from Xenics nv.
Names and marks appearing on the products herein are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Xenics nv. All other

trademarks, trade names or company names referenced in this document are used for identification only and are the property
of their respective owners.

Quality Assurance

The Quality Management System under which these products are developed and manufactured has been certified in
accordance with the ISO 9001 standard.

Xenics nv is committed to a policy of continuous development for which we reserve the right to make changes and
improvements on any of the products described in this manual without prior notice.

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input and review

Camera functionality for GigE and CL moved to separate ICD.

Title chap. 2.2 added, chap. 1.2, 6.4 and chap. 7 small updates,
table 2.1: weight added GigE camera

Firmware update Gobi-640-GigE (version 2013/05/31) & Gobi­New mechanical drawings

revision of Appendix D: Bolometer Control & Operation

Gobi-384 added / new revision of Appendix D: Bolometer
added, info about Gobi-384-25µm added

New issue Appendix Bolometer Control & Operation, CL

Second released issue

Lens table updated

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Revision History

Issue Issue date Changes Modified by

001 21/03/2012 First issue CDU

001.01 04/04/2012 Table 2.1 updated CDU

001.02 18/04/2012 Additional review CDU

001.03 30/10/2012

001.04 31/10/2012 Figs updated: are without IO expander CDU

001.05 29/11/2012 Camera feature and functions updated JDS

001.06 30/11/2012 Power cable diagram added CDU

001.07 11/02/2013 Link to table corrected CDU

001.08

001.09 19/04/2013 Chap. 1.2, 1.3, 4.2, 5.1, 6.3, 7 updated CDU

11/02/2013
22/02/2013

New sections added and other sections updated according to

New AutoGain algorithm
Gobi-640-CL info added

CDU

JDS

CDU

001.10 05/06/2013

001.11 25/09/2013
02/10/2013

001.12
09/10/2013

001.13 13/11/2013 Review manual JDS

002 25/11/2013

002.01 06/01/2014 Trigger warning added CDU

002.02 19/01/2014 Updated mechanical drawing (rev D) JDH

002.03 20/01/2014 Updated Ref 7 Xeneth Installation Manual CDU

002.04 31/01/2014 Trigger-in delay and trigger-in jitter added CDU

002.05 26/02/2014 New issue Appendix F: Fr ame rate calcul ator CDU

002.06 28/03/2014 Gobi-640-CXP added JDS

002.07 31/03/2014 Appendix mechanical drawing updated (EASM file removed) CDU

002.08 25/04/2014 Table 1.1 updated JDS

002.09 02/05/2014

640-CL (version 2.1.1043)
New revisions of mechanical drawings in Appendix B, new

Control & Operation
Appendix D: Bolometer Control & Operation: new revision

interface: note about timing diagram added, Appendix F: frame
rate calculator added,

Onboard algorithms updated
XEN-numbers updated

JDS

CDU
JDS
CDU

CDU

JDS

002.10 13/05/2014 New revision of Appendix Bolometer Control & Operation CDU

003 13/06/2014 3rd release JDS

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7.2

Appendix B: New mechanical drawing

JDH

Reference document Xeneth Installation Manual
updated for Xeneth 2.5

Table 2.4

Trigger, trigger-in delay and trigger-in jitter added

CDU

Table 1.1, Table

2.2, Table 4.1

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Change Details

This table lists all changes of this issue compared to the previous released one.
Chapter/Section Changes Modified by

Table 4.1 Trigger comment added CDU

4.3 Trigger warning added CDU

1.3

Table 2.2 Trigger, trigger-in delay and trigger-in jitter added CDU

CXP added JDS

Table 1.1 Updated (updated camera description) JDS
Section 2.5 Onboard functionality updated JDS
Table 3.1 Lens table updated JDS

CDU

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Table of Contents

Revision History .................................................................................................................. 3

Change Details ................................................................................................................... 4

List of Abbreviations ............................................................................................................ 7

List of Figures ..................................................................................................................... 8

List of Tables ....................................................................................................................... 9

1. Introduction ................................................................................................................ 10

1.1. Scope ................................................................................................................. 10

1.2. Manual Overview ................................................................................................ 11

1.3. Reference Documents ........................................................................................ 11

1.4. Conventions Used in This Manual ....................................................................... 11

1.5. Safety Warnings.................................................................................................. 12

1.6. Conformity .......................................................................................................... 12

1.7. Contact Information ............................................................................................. 13

2. Mechanical & Electrical Specifications ....................................................................... 14

2.1. Gobi-640-17µm Detector Specifications .............................................................. 14

2.2. Gobi-640-17µm GigE, CL & CXP Camera Specifications .................................... 14

2.3. Gobi-384-25µm Detector Specifications .............................................................. 15

2.4. Gobi-384-25µm GigE & CL Camera Specifications ............................................. 16

2.5. On-board Algorithms and Functionality ............................................................... 17

3. Optical Interface ......................................................................................................... 18

4. Electrical Interface ..................................................................................................... 20

4.1. General Overview Connectors and Specifications ............................................... 20

4.2. Power Interface ................................................................................................... 21

4.3. Trigger Interface.................................................................................................. 22

4.4. Gobi-640/Gobi-384-GigE Interface ...................................................................... 23

4.5. Gobi-640 CXP Interface ...................................................................................... 23

4.6. Gobi-640/Gobi-384-CL Interface ......................................................................... 24

5. Software Installation ................................................................................................... 25

5.1. Xeneth Installation .............................................................................................. 25

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5.2. SDK Installation .................................................................................................. 25

6. Getting Started ........................................................................................................... 26

6.1. Install the Software ............................................................................................. 26

6.2. Connect the Cables ............................................................................................ 26

6.3. Connect the Camera via Xeneth ......................................................................... 26

6.4. Camera Properties .............................................................................................. 27

7. Appendices ................................................................................................................ 28

7.1. Appendix A ......................................................................................................... 28

7.2. Appendix B ......................................................................................................... 28

7.3. Appendix C ......................................................................................................... 28

7.4. Appendix D ......................................................................................................... 28

7.5. Appendix E ......................................................................................................... 28

7.6. Appendix F .......................................................................................................... 28

7.7. Appendix G ......................................................................................................... 28

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ath

Athermalized

GND

Ground

ICD

Interface Control Document

NETD

Noise Equivalent Temperature Difference

RJ

Registered Jack

RoHS

Restriction of Hazardous Substances

SMA

Sub-Miniature version A connector

XEN

Xenics Part Number

XSP

Xenics Serial Protocol

List of Abbreviations

a-Si Amorphous Silicon

ASY Assembly

CC Camera Control
CE Conformité Européenne

CL Camera Link protocol

CXP CoaXpress

DFOV Dual Field Of View

GigE Gigabit Ethernet

LWIR Long-Wave I nfrared

mnt mount

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PoE Power over Ethernet

SDK Software Development Kit

SDR Shrunk Delta Ribbon connector

SW Software

UMN User manual

XTM Xenics Thermal Module

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List of Figures

Figure 3-1 Optical components: lens - insert - front ........................................................... 18

Figure 4-1 Camera power connector ................................................................................. 21

Figure 4-2 Cable connector ............................................................................................... 21

Figure 4-3 Pin out of Camera Link connector on the Gobi-640-CL camera ....................... 24

Figure 6-1 Xeneth shortcut ................................................................................................ 26

Figure 6-2 Connection dialog - settings ............................................................................. 26

Figure 6-3 Camera properties settings tab ........................................................................ 27

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List of Tables

Table 1-1 Camera overview - Gobi-640-17µm-GigE&CL ................................................... 10

Table 1-2 Camera overview - Gobi-384-25µm-GigE&CL ................................................... 10

Table 2-1 Gobi-640-17µm detector specifications ............................................................. 14

Table 2-2 Gobi-640-GigE/CL/CXP camera specifications .................................................. 15

Table 2-3 Gobi-384 detector specifications ....................................................................... 15

Table 2-4 Gobi-384-GigE&CL camera specifications ........................................................ 16

Table 2-5 On board image processing features ................................................................. 17

Table 2-6 Properties and onboard functionality ................................................................. 17

Table 3-1 Lens configuration ............................................................................................. 19

Table 4-1 Electrical interface specs for Gobi-640/Gobi-384-GigE, CL, CXP interface ....... 20

Table 4-2 Camera power connector 12V
Table 4-3 Cable connector 12V

DC

Table 4-4 Camera Link connector (base) pin assignment .................................................. 24

DC

........................................................................ 21

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Part Number

Gobi-640-50mK-GigE Scientific

XEN-000065

Gobi-640-50mK-GigE Industrial

XEN-000088

Gobi-640-50mK-CL Industrial

XEN-000066

Gobi-640-50mK-CXP Industrial

XEN-000324

Gobi-640-75mK-GigE Industrial

XEN-000401

Gobi-640-75mK-9Hz-GigE Industrial

XEN-000402

Gobi-640-75mK-CL Industrial

XEN-000403

Gobi-640-75mK-9Hz-CL Industrial

XEN-000404

Gobi-640-75mK-CXP Industrial

XEN-000405

Gobi-640-75mK-9Hz-CXP Industr ial

XEN-000406

Gobi-640-75mK-CL-Shutterless Industrial (planned)

XEN-000326

Gobi-640-75mK-9Hz-CL-Shutter less Industrial (planned)

XEN-000327

Gobi-384-25µm Camera

Part Number

Gobi-384-80mK-GigE Scientific

XEN-000385

Gobi-384-80mK-GigE Industrial

XEN-000386

Gobi-384-80mK-9Hz-GigE Industrial

XEN-000387

Gobi-384-80mK-CL Industrial

XEN-000373

Gobi-384-80mK-9Hz-CL Industrial

XEN-000374

Gobi-384-80mK-CL-Shutterless Industrial (planned)

XEN-000359

Gobi-384-80mK-9Hz-CL-Shutterless Industrial (planned)

XEN-000361

Please read this manual thoroughly before operating the camera!

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1. Introduction

1.1. Scope

This User Manual describes the technical specifications, dimensions, image processing,
basic and advanced parameters and related subjects for the following cameras:

Table 1-1 Camera overview - Gobi-640-17µm-GigE&CL

Table 1-2 Camera overview - Gobi-384-25µm-GigE&CL

Target group: This technical manual is written for professional users.

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1.2. Manual Overview

This section provides a chapter overview:

• Chapter 1 gives an overview of the conventions used in this manual (styles and
symbols), the safety warnings, conformity information about Xenics cameras and
the contact information.

• Chapter 2 gives a mechanical (2D drawings) and electrical overview

• Chapter 3 describes the optical interfaces

• Chapter 4 describes the electrical interfaces

• Chapter 5 provides the installation of the Xeneth and SDK software

• Chapter 6 lists the steps to get started using the camera

• Chapter 7 lists the appendices.

1.3. Reference Documents

(Ref. 1) Xenics Serial Protocol ENG-2011-ICD003
(Ref. 2) Mechanical Drawing Gobi-640-GigE

Mechanical Drawing Gobi-640-CL
(Ref. 3) Auto Gain Control ENG-2013-UMN006
(Ref. 4) Histogram Equalization ENG-2014-UMN002
(Ref. 5) Bolometer Control & Operation ENG-2013-ICD004
(Ref. 6) Network connection set-up for GigE ENG-2013-ICD003
(Ref. 7) Frame rate calculator ENG-2013-ICD012
(Ref. 8) Xeneth Installation Manual (see Xeneth SW directory)

ENG-2013-UMN024

1.4. Conventions Used in This Manual

To give this manual an easily understood layout and to emphasize important information,
the following typographical styles and symbols are used:

The styles used in this manual are:

• Bold: used for programs, inputs (commands or parameters) or highlighting
important things

• Courier New: used for code listings and output.

• Italics: used for modes and fields.

The symbols used in this manual:

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Warning: This symbol highlights important instructions. These instructions

Supply voltage polarity: Use the correct polarity of the 12 V supply voltage.

Warranty: The warranty becomes void in case of unauthorized tampering or

Electrostatic discharge: The camera contains sensitive electronic

Environmental conditions: Operate the camera in dry and dust free

be necessary.

Warm-up Period: Depending on the prevailing environmental conditions,
its optimum.

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must be followed to avoid malfunctions!

1.5. Safety Warnings

The following safety warnings must be followed:

any manipulations not approved by the manufacturer.

components which can be destroyed by means of electrostatic discharge.
Use sufficient grounding to minimize the risk of damage.

environment.
Regarding the signal quality of the camera it is an advantage to operate the
camera under constant ambient air temperature (~20°C).
Beneath or above ambient temperature a sufficient heating or cooling may

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some time might pass after the cam era start, until the image quality reaches

1.6. Conformity

Xenics declares under its sole responsibility that all standard cameras of the Gobi 640
family to which this declaration relates to, are conform with the following standard(s) or
other normative document(s):

• CE, following the provisions of 2004/108/EG directive

• RoHS (2002/95/EC).

CE:

We declare, under our sole responsibility, that the previously described Gobi cameras
conform to the CE directives.

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1.7. Contact Information

• Xenics nv (Headquarters)
Ambachtenlaan 44
BE-3001 Leuven
Belgium
T [phone]

[e-mail]

• Xenics USA, Inc.
North American office

[e-mail]

• Xenics South America

[e-mail]

• sInfraRed Pte, Ltd
Asian sales, manufacturing and custom solutions office

[e-mail]

• Distributors worldwide
Xenics is a European based provider of infrared imaging products and has
representatives and distributor locations around the world to service our many
customers.

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Please visit our website for more contact details:

www.xenics.com

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