SmartDV’s Camera Link HS Frame Grabber IP is a fully featured Camera Link HS receiver solution purpose-built for SoC designs requiring high-speed, multi-cable frame capture in machine vision, industrial inspection, and scientific imaging applications. Fully compliant with Camera Link HS Specification v1.1, it delivers complete frame grabber-side receiver functionality supporting M-Protocol at 3 Gbps with 8B/10B decoding and X-Protocol at 10 Gbps with 64B/66B decoding, up to 8 cable reception with up to 15 data lanes per cable, and all video formats specified in Camera Link HS v1.1.
Designed as the natural frame grabber-side complement to a Camera Link HS camera transmitter, the IP supports 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16-bit pixel depth, RGB and color formats in both Mixed and Planar data presentations, 7 pulse trigger modes, 32 GPIO, and ACK/NACK/Resend handshaking with packet interruption based on message priority. Its device control register set per Camera Link HS v1.1, GenCP v1.1 command message packet format, and support for Raw, Mono, B, G, R, BGR, BGRa, and all Bayer pattern color formats give machine vision frame grabber SoC teams a production-ready, spec-complete receiver implementation.
Built for design flexibility and silicon efficiency, the IP core is highly configurable for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. Its parameterized cable and lane architecture and clean host interface enable fast integration across a wide range of machine vision process nodes and target applications.