Mikrotron MC13xx, MC1302, MC1303, MC1304, MC1305 User Manual

MC13xx

High Speed CMOS Camera

Mikrotron GmbH

Landshuter Str. 20-22
D-85716 Unterschleißheim
Germany

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Fax: [phone]

[e-mail]
www.mikrotron.de

MC13xx Users Manual Rev. 1.19
Camera-Firmware:

V1.51-F2.53

Kamera ID Nr.: MC1302 .. MC1319
Copyright © 2006 Mikrotron GmbH

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Table of contents

1 General..........................................................................................................................4

1.1 For customers in the U.S.A. .................................................................................................................................... 4

1.2 For customers in Canada......................................................................................................................................... 4

1.3 Pour utilisateurs au Canada ..................................................................................................................................... 4

1.4 Life Support Applications ....................................................................................................................................... 4

1.5 Declaration of conformity ....................................................................................................................................... 5

1.6 Warranty Note......................................................................................................................................................... 6

1.7 Remarks, Warnings................................................................................................................................................. 6

2 Introduction...................................................................................................................7

2.1 Top level specifications........................................................................................................................................... 7

2.2 Electronic „Freeze Frame“ Shutter.......................................................................................................................... 7

2.3 Differences between the camera types .................................................................................................................... 8

2.4 Using the camera..................................................................................................................................................... 8

3 Hardware.......................................................................................................................9

3.1 Camera Link® Interface.......................................................................................................................................... 9

3.1.1 Serial interface.................................................................................................................................................... 9

3.2 Power supply........................................................................................................................................................... 9

3.3 Status LED .............................................................................................................................................................. 9

4 Getting started.............................................................................................................10

4.1 First steps .............................................................................................................................................................. 10

5 Initial setup .................................................................................................................11

5.1 Serial number and firmware revision .................................................................................................................... 11

5.2 PowerUpProfile..................................................................................................................................................... 11

5.3 Camera Profile ...................................................................................................................................................... 11

5.4 Factory profile....................................................................................................................................................... 11

5.5 User profiles .......................................................................................................................................................... 11

6 Configuration..............................................................................................................12

6.1 Commands............................................................................................................................................................. 12

6.1.1 Table of commands .......................................................................................................................................... 13

6.2 Read serial number and firmware revision............................................................................................................ 13

6.2.1 Read camera settings ........................................................................................................................................ 13

6.3 Profile processing.................................................................................................................................................. 15

6.3.1 Read Camera profile......................................................................................................................................... 15

6.3.2 Write user profile.............................................................................................................................................. 15

6.3.3 Load user profile .............................................................................................................................................. 16

6.3.4 Load factory profile.......................................................................................................................................... 16

6.4 Video data width, Base/ Full Camera Link® ........................................................................................................ 16

6.5 Image quality......................................................................................................................................................... 16

6.5.1 FPN................................................................................................................................................................... 16

6.5.2 Gain .................................................................................................................................................................. 17

6.5.3 Black Level....................................................................................................................................................... 17

6.6 Image size and position ......................................................................................................................................... 17

6.6.1 Address of the first line .................................................................................................................................... 17

6.6.2 Number of lines ................................................................................................................................................ 17

6.6.3 Address of the first pixel of a line .................................................................................................................... 18

6.6.4 Address of the last pixel of a line ..................................................................................................................... 18

6.6.5 Tracking ........................................................................................................................................................... 18

6.6.6 Arbitrary shaped fields of view ........................................................................................................................ 18

6.7 Clock selection...................................................................................................................................................... 20

6.7.1 Arbitrary selection of sensor and pixel clock ................................................................................................... 20

6.7.2 Table selection of clock frequencies................................................................................................................. 20

6.7.3 Image Format/Speed change ............................................................................................................................ 21

6.8 Exposure control ................................................................................................................................................... 21

6.8.1 Type of exposure.............................................................................................................................................. 21

6.8.2 Frame rate with synchronous exposure ............................................................................................................ 22

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6.8.3 Synchronous operation without shutter ............................................................................................................ 23

6.8.4 Synchronous operation with shutter ................................................................................................................. 23

6.8.5 External synchronisation with synchronous exposure ...................................................................................... 23

6.8.6 Frame rate with asynchronous exposure........................................................................................................... 24

6.8.7 Asynchronous exposure, shutter control by pulse width.................................................................................. 24

6.8.8 Asynchronous exposure, shutter control by timer ............................................................................................ 24

6.9 Firmware ............................................................................................................................................................... 25

6.9.1 Update Firmware.............................................................................................................................................. 25

6.9.2 Reset and configuration of the internal FPGA.................................................................................................. 25

6.10 Horizontal pixelbinning......................................................................................................................................... 25

6.11 Vertical pixelbinning............................................................................................................................................. 25

6.12 Digital shading correction ..................................................................................................................................... 26

6.13 Digital gain............................................................................................................................................................ 26

6.14 External clock input .............................................................................................................................................. 26

6.15 Polarity of EXP-signal .......................................................................................................................................... 26

6.16 Test image ............................................................................................................................................................. 27

6.17 Image counter........................................................................................................................................................ 27

6.18 ImageBLITZ® shutter release, MC131x only ...................................................................................................... 27

6.18.1 ImageBLITZ® processing........................................................................................................................... 28

6.18.2 ImageBLITZ® programming ...................................................................................................................... 28

6.18.3 ImageBLITZ® registers .............................................................................................................................. 30

6.18.4 ImageBLITZ® setup.................................................................................................................................... 31

7 MC13xx configuration tool ........................................................................................32

7.1 Basic Configuration............................................................................................................................................... 32

7.2 ImageBLITZ® Configuration ............................................................................................................................... 33

8 Mechanical dimensions ..............................................................................................34

8.1 Camera body MC13xx .......................................................................................................................................... 34

8.1.1 Dimensioned drawing, side view of MC1302/03/10/11................................................................................... 34

8.1.2 Dimensioned drawing, side view of MC13x6 – MC13x9................................................................................ 34

8.1.3 Dimensioned drawing, front view of MC1302/03/10/11.................................................................................. 35

8.1.4 Dimensioned drawing, rear view of MC13xx .................................................................................................. 35

8.2 Lens adjustment .................................................................................................................................................... 36

8.2.1 Lens adaption ................................................................................................................................................... 36

8.2.2 Adjustable lens adapter, only for camera models with C-mount flange ........................................................... 36

8.2.3 Lens selection for camera types with C-mount flange (see table overview of cameras) .................................. 36

9 Technical Data............................................................................................................37

9.1 Spectral response................................................................................................................................................... 38

9.2 Sensitive area of a pixel ........................................................................................................................................ 39

9.3 Connector pinning ................................................................................................................................................. 40

9.3.1 Camera Link® Connector, MDR-26 ................................................................................................................ 40

9.3.2 Circular power connector, 6-pin....................................................................................................................... 41

9.4 Camera Link® Bit Assignments ........................................................................................................................... 42

9.4.1 Base Camera Link® 2*8/10 - Bit Assignment ................................................................................................. 42

9.4.2 Full Camera Link® 8*8-Bit Assignment.......................................................................................................... 43

9.4.3 10*8-Bit Assignment........................................................................................................................................ 44

9.5 Frequency selection............................................................................................................................................... 45

9.5.1 Frequencies for video data width 2*8/10 - Bit, Base Camera Link®............................................................... 45

9.5.2 Frequencies for video data width 8*8 - Bit, Full Camera Link® ..................................................................... 49

9.5.3 Frequencies for video data width 10*8 – Bit.................................................................................................... 49

9.6 Programming sequence, factory profile f3 ............................................................................................................ 50

9.7 Timing................................................................................................................................................................... 51

9.7.1 Pixel clock ........................................................................................................................................................ 51

9.7.2 Line Valid (LVAL, DVAL).............................................................................................................................. 51

9.7.3 Frame Valid (FVAL)........................................................................................................................................ 52

9.7.4 Exposure Signal EXP, to be input on CC1....................................................................................................... 52

9.7.5 Synchronous exposure with external synchronisation via CC1........................................................................ 53

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1 General

1.1 For customers in the U.S.A.

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursu­ant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against
harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment
generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with
the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this
equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be re­quired to correct the interference at his own expense. You are cautioned that any changes or modifica­tions not expressly approved in this manual could void your authority to operate this equipment. The
shielded interface cable recommended in this manual must be used with this equipment in order to
comply with the limits for a computing device pursuant to Subpart J of Part 15 of FCC Rules.

1.2 For customers in Canada

This apparatus complies with the Class A limits for radio noise emissions set out in Radio Interference
Regulations.

1.3 Pour utilisateurs au Canada

Cet appareil est conforme aux normes Classe A pour bruits radioélectriques, spécifiées dans le Règle­ment sur le brouillage radioélectrique.

1.4 Life Support Applications

These products are not designed for use in life support appliances, devices, or systems where malfunc­tion of these products can reasonably be expected to result in personal injury. Mikrotron customers us­ing or selling these products for use in such applications do so at their own risk and agree to fully in­demnify Mikrotron for any damages resulting from such improper use or sale.

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1.5 Declaration of conformity

Manufacturer: Mikrotron GmbH

Address: Landshuter Str. 20-22

85716 Unterschleissheim
Deutschland

Product: camera MC1302, MC1303, MC1304, MC1305

camera MC1306, MC1307, MC1308, MC1309
camera MC1310, MC1311, MC1314, MC1315
camera MC1316, MC1317, MC1318, MC1319

The dedicated products conform to the requirements of the Council Directives 2004/108/EG for the
approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electromagnetic consistency. The following
standards were consulted for the conformity testing with regard to electromagnetic consistency.

EC regulation Description

EN 61000-6-3 Electromagnetic compatibility
EN 61000-6-1 Immunity

Unterschleissheim, June 06

th

. 2003

Mikrotron GmbH

Dipl.-Ing. Bernhard Mindermann
President of Mikrotron

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1.6 Warranty Note

Do not open the body of the camera. The warranty becomes void if the body is opened.

1.7 Remarks, Warnings

This document contains important remarks and warnings. See the corresponding symbols:

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Important remark

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Attention, Warning

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2 Introduction

The CMOS high speed camera MC13xx is a high resolution camera with 1280•1024 pixel. Benefits of
CMOS technology are high speed, random access to pixels with free programmability and low power.

The camera uses industry-standard C-Mount lenses. The sensor diagonal is 1,25“ with square pixels
measuring 12µm.

Free programmability means that the user is free to define the region of interest by size and position and
the speed of data output. The frame rate can be selected between 25 fps and several thousand fps
depending on resolution and video data width.

With a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixel, 500 fps (MC131x) can be output via the “full Camera Link®
parameter sets are called: profiles and stored in non volatile memory.

2.1 Top level specifications

• high resolution: 1.280•1.024 pixel CMOS sensor

with 1300 A/D converters

• up to 1.024 gray levels

• up to 100 full frames/s for MC1302 – MC1309

up to 500 full frames/s for MC1310 – MC1319

• arbitrary region of interest

• high sensitivity

• 12μm square pixels

• electronic “Freeze Frame” shutter

• low blooming

• programmable via serial link

• patented ImageBLITZ® image trigger (MC1310 – MC1319)

• asynchronous trigger

• download customer specific FPGA preprocessing firmware

• small, compact housing

• wide power supply range

2.2 Electronic „Freeze Frame“ Shutter

Preceding exposure, the contents of all light sensitive elements is cleared. When exposure terminates,
accumulated charge is transferred to an analog memory associated which each pixel. It stays there until
it is read out (and discharged) by the A/D conversion cycle.

As all light sensitive elements are exposed at the same time, even fast moving objects are captured
without geometric distortion.

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2.3 Differences between the camera types

The CMOS cameras are available in different versions depending on the supported features mono­chrome/color or Base/Full Camera Link ® interface, lens connection to C-mount or changeable lens
adapter C-mount/F-mount.

Features

Type

Data
width
(bits)

Color/
Mono

Base/Full
Camera Link® ­no. of taps

C/F-Mount
lens adaption

max. frame rate@
1280 x 1024

Image­BLITZ®

Image pre­processing
supported

MC1302 8/10 M B-2 C 100 fps - ­MC1303 8/10 C B-2 C 100 fps - ­MC1304 8/10 M B-2 C 100 fps - +
MC1305 8/10 C B-2 C 100 fps - +
MC1306 8/10 M B-2 F 100 fps - +
MC1307 8/10 C B-2 F 100 fps - +
MC1308 8/10 M B-2 F 100 fps - ­MC1309 8/10 M B-2 F 100 fps - ­MC1310 8/10 M B,F-2,8,10 C 500 fps + ­MC1311 8/10 C B,F-2,8,10 C 500 fps + ­MC1314 8/10 M B,F-2,8,10 C 500 fps + +
MC1315 8/10 C B,F-2,8,10 C 500 fps + +
MC1316 8/10 M B,F-2,8,10 F 500 fps + +
MC1317 8/10 C B,F-2,8,10 F 500 fps + +
MC1318 8/10 M B,F-2,8,10 F 500 fps + ­MC1319 8/10 C B,F-2,8,10 F 500 fps + -

Table 2.3-1

+ ... supported

- ... not supported

2.4 Using the camera

There are no serviceable parts inside the camera.. The camera may not be opened, otherwise guarantee
is lost.

Use dry, soft lens-cleaning tissue for cleaning lenses and, if necessary, the sensors window.

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3 Hardware

3.1 Camera Link® Interface

Camera Link® is designed for digital cameras in machine vision applications. A “Full Camera Link®”
interface can transfer up to 64 bits of data at a rate of >528 Mbytes/sec.

3.1.1 Serial interface

The communication via the serial interface is incorporated in the “Base Camera Link® interface. A de­scription of the connector pinning is in chapter 9.3.

3.2 Power supply

The camera needs a DC supply voltage between 8 … 24 V at a power consumption of 6,0 Watt max..

See also Connector pinning .

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Before applying power to the camera we strongly recommend to verify the used pins of the
power connector, the polarity (+/-) of the leads and the supply voltage.

The camera may only be used with a supply voltage according to the camera specification.
Connecting a lower or higher supply voltage, AC voltage, reversal polarity or using wrong
pins of the power connector may damage the camera. If doing so, the warranty will expire
immediately.

3.3 Status LED

A dual colour LED on the camera backplane shows the operating condition of the MC13xx.

LED orange... The MC13xx is configuring the internal FPGA. No other activity is possible.

LED green... The MC13xx is fully operational.

LED off... If LED is off, despite the camera is powered, the FPGA configuration data is re-

loaded via the serial interface and stored in internal EEPROM. No other activity
is possible.

LED red... red LED that the FPGA could not be loaded because of wrong FPGA configura-

tion data. Try to reload configuration data.

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4 Getting started

Before starting to operate the camera, make sure that the following equipment is available:

• Camera MC13xx

• C-Mount Lens

• Mikrotron Support CD

• Image processing system, e.g.: PC, frame grabber and Software

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The frame grabber must have a Base- or Full Camera
Link® Interface.

Additional items:

• 1 or 2 standard Camera Link® cables

• 1 Power supply 12VDC, 0.5A min

• 1 power cable

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To specify cables see chapter Connector pinning.

4.1 First steps

1. Switch off the image processing system

2. Connect Camera Link® cable between camera and frame grabber.

3. Connect power cable.

4. Unscrew dust protection cover, screw in lens.

5. Switch on the image processing system and camera power supply

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5 Initial setup

The MC13xx is delivered with initial parameters and therefore does not need to be configured via the

serial link.

5.1 Serial number and firmware revision

Serial number and firmware revision is provided in MC13xx non volatile memory. Use :v command

(Read serial number and firmware revision) to read serial number and firmware revision. The serial
number is also marked on the type plate of the camera.

5.2 PowerUpProfile

The PowerUpProfile is the contents of all camera registers to be loaded from non-volatile memory after
power up.

5.3 Camera Profile

The actual set of parameters is called Camera Profile. All changes of parameters by the serial link is
reflected in the Camera Profile. On command the Camera Profile is saved to 8 user profiles or one Pow­erUpProfile. It is loaded from 8 user profiles or 8 factory profiles or the PowerUpProfile. The camera
profile is volatile and must be stored to the PowerUpProfile to be reactivated on next poer up.

5.4 Factory profile

The factory profile can be read but not written by the user.

5.5 User profiles

The user can store up to eight PowerUpProfiles in non volatile memory. All load or write commands
exchange data between the PowerUpProfile and one of the four user profiles.

Profil-Nr. Video data

width

resolution

/ pixel

Image

frequency

/fps
0 2x8 100 x 100 4.852
1 2x8 240 x 240 1.011
2 2x8 640 x 480 202
3 2x8 1280 x 1024 47
4 2x10 640 x 480 156
5 2x10 1280 x 1024 32
6 8x8 1280 x 1024 120
7 8x8 640 x 480 954

Table 5-1

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6 Configuration

The MC13xx has 15 FPGA registers, r1..rfh , each 10 bit wide, eight D/A registers, a1..a8, 8-bit wide,
and one clock select register, 4 bit wide. The contents of all the above registers is called a profile. There
is space in non volatile memory for 17 profiles: one PowerUpProfile, 8 user profiles and 8 factory pro­files.

Any change of a specific register through the serial interface is immediately processed and written to
the volatile part of the memory and gets lost when power goes down. A command must be used to store
the actual setting in non volatile memory. After power-up the PowerUpProfile is loaded from the non­volatile to the volatile part of the memory.

A load or write command exchanges data between the PowerUpProfile and one of the eight user pro­files. The eight factory profiles can be read but not be written by any command. All values are given in
hexadecimal notation, e.g.: 0xff or 0ffh = 255.

6.1 Commands

ASCII strings are used to change camera parameters. All commands start with a colon, followed by one
selection character and a value in hexadecimal notation with two or three ASCII characters.

After a command has been recognized, processing is immediate, for all commands but the save type
commands (:px). These need a EEPROM write time of app 1ms. An answer is provided with read type
commans (:v, :w, :W) or, if the command “command acknowledge flag” is set, after processing of each
command an ACK or NAK character. Processing of wrong command is stopped immediately on recog­nizing the error. A new command must start with a colon.

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6.1.1 Table of commands

Syntax Range Answer Description
:a<n><xx> <n> = 1...8

<xx> = 0...ff

h

-- Set one of eight analog voltages for the sensor

:A<n> <n> =

„y“,“Y“,“n“,“N“

En- or disable a command acknowledge or not

acknowledge (ACK or NAK)

:b<n> <n> = 0...4 -- Select baud rate:

0=9600 Bd (default setting), 1=19.2 kBd,
2=38.4 kBd, 3=56.8 kBd, 4=115.2 kBd

:c -- -- RESET and new Initialization of the camera, new

load of PowerUpProfile. Duration: some seconds
:e... -- -- Transmit & save a new FPGA configuration
:f<n> <n> = 0...7 -- Reload one of eight, factory defined and cali-

brated profiles to PowerUpProfile.
:g<n> <n> = 0...7 -- Reload one of eight user profiles to PowerUp-

Profile
:p<n> <n> = 0...7 -- Save PowerUpProfile to one of eight user pro-

files, allow app. 1ms save time.
:r<n> <n> = 1...f

h

-- Write a FPGA - register

:s<n> <n> = 0…f

h

-- Select sensor and pixel clock from a table with
16 entries.

:S 6 Byte Code -- Program sensor and pixel clock directly.
:t<n><m> <n> = 00..7f

h

<m> = 00..ff

h

-- Short setting of X- position in units of 10 pixel
and Y-position in units of 4 lines.

:v -- #12345-

V1.10­F1.29

Read serial number (#), microcontroller - version
(V...) and FPGA - version (F...).

:w -- camera

profile: 44
bytes in
hex

Read actual PowerUpProfile, data output in hex

:W -- Camera

profile: 44

bytes in

ASCII

Read actual PowerUpProfile, data output in
ASCII

6.2 Read serial number and firmware revision

The serial number and the firmware revision can be read with the :v command.
Command: :v

Response(e.g.): #01234-V1.51-F2.53↵

CR+LF
Serial number (carriage return +
of the camera line feed)
firmware version

6.2.1 Read camera settings

The actual camera settings can be read out. The answer are the values of all camera registers.

Command: :w Output as hexadecimal digits
(44 Bytes)
:W Output as ASCII-String

Example for ":w" (output as hex digits, 44 Databytes + CR + LF):

6d6448c66500650061008541898c0000

03f f03f f0000007f 0030000000000000

000000000000000000000000↵

CR+LF

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Example for ":W" (output as ASCII string, 91 Bytes total, 88 databytes, 1x CR preceding the databytes,
1x CR after 32 ASCII-characters and 1x CR after 64 ASCII- characters):

↓6d6448c66500650061008541898c0000↓

03f f03f f0000007f 0030000000000000↓

CR

000000000000000000000000

Assignment of data to camera parameters:

6d6448c665006500 61008541898c 0000

03f f03f f0000007f 0030000000000000
000000000000000000000000↵

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transmitted bytes:
A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 Sa1 Sa2 Sa3 Sb1 Sb2 Sb3
R1h R1l ... R15h R15l↵

A1...A8 analog settings
Sa1 Sa2 Sa3 3 Bytes frequency codes of pixelclock (see 6.7)
Sb1 Sb2 Sb3 3 Byte frequency codes for sensorclock (see

6.7)

R1…R15 image size & position
R1h ... high Byte Register1

Abb. description hex. Code

CR carriage return 0d

LF line feed 0a

R1l ... low Byte Register1
↵ ... CR+LF (0dh + 0ah)

image size & position

Codes for pixel­and Sensorclock

analog settings

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6.3 Profile processing

All camera settings are loaded or stored as complete data blocks (= Profiles). There are 17 profiles, the
Camera profile, the PowerUpProfile, eight factory profiles and eight user profiles.

user
profile 0

user
profile 1

user
profile n

user
profile 7

:p0

factory
profiles

0...7

f0..7

Power­UpProfile

:pc

:gc
or power on

:g7

camera profile (programs to camera logic)

configuration commands

:a..z[parameter]

:gn

:

g

1

:

g

0

:p1 :pn

:p7

6.3.1 Read Camera profile

The response to the read Camera profile command :w is a hex string of the contents of all actual camera

registers.

Command: :w

Response(e.g.): 6d774ac800006a1c6100851898c0003ff3ff

0000800300000000000000000000000000000000000000

all values hex, e.g.: 70

HEX

= 112

DEC

Sequence of transmitted data bytes:
A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 Sa1 Sa2 Sa3 Sb1 Sb2 Sb3 R1h R1l ... R15h R15l ↵

A1...A8 image level control (FPN, contrast…)
Sa1 Sa2 Sa3 3 Byte synthesizer code of pixel clock
Sb1 Sb2 Sb3 3 synthesizer code of sensor clock
(see chapter

6.7.1 )

R1…R15 image control (image position, size, sync….)
R1h ... high Byte R1
R1l ... low Byte R1

↵ ... CR+LF (0dh + 0ah)

6.3.2 Write user profile

The PowerUpProfile is transferred to one of the eight user profiles.

Command: :p<n> <n> = 0 ... 7,c

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Issue this command only, if the PowerUpProfile was
successfully tested.

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6.3.3 Load user profile

Load one of eight user profiles to the PowerUpProfile.

Command: :g<n> <n> = 0 ... 7, c

6.3.4 Load factory profile

The eight factory profiles can be read but not changed by the user.

Command: :f<n> <n> = 0 ... 7

6.4 Video data width, Base/ Full Camera Link®

MC13xx can output video data with 2 x 8-Bit or 2 x 10-Bit via the „Base Camera Link®“ interface, or 8
x 8-Bit or 10 x 8-Bit data via the „Full Camera Link®“ interface. Use register 7 Bits 7/5 to select..

Video data width :r7[7] :r7[5]

2 x 8 0 0

2 x 10 0 1

8 x 8 1 0

10 x 8 1 1

Table 6.4-1
The 10 x 8 - Bit data width lowers the clock speed for a given bandwidth, and needs a compatible frame
grabber. The assignment of the 10 taps to the Camera Link® ports is described in chapter:10*8-Bit As-

signment.

There are no predefined profiles for 10 x 8 Bits stored in the MC131x. Any predefined 8 x 8-Bit profile
can be used as starting point. Then change :r7 [7,5] to 1 and set Pixel Clock speed as described in:

Frequencies for video data width 10*8 - Bit. This profile can then be stored as User Profile.

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MC130x: Setting of r7[7] is ignored by the camera.
MC131x: After a change of r7[7], change the selected

frequency. See: Table selection of clock frequencies.

6.5 Image quality

There are three D/A converter to influence image quality: FPN, Gain, and Black up. FPN, Gain and
especially Black might be adjusted if sensor clock changes. All three parameters are stored in non­volatile memory as part of the selected profile.

6.5.1 FPN

The Fixed Pattern Noise setting reduces the fixed pattern noise that is typical to CMOS sensors. This

level might be changed if the sensor clock frequency is changed. For adjustment set the lens out of fo­cus and to a medium grey level. Lower FPN until a heavy pattern appears. Then raise by a few points.

Command: :a1<x

1x0>

<x1x0> : Range, typ. 55h ... 80h

Response: none