Visionary Hookups
Selecting an interface to run your machine vision imaging system is not straightforward, but choosing the right one pays off in efficiency.
Hank Hogan, Contributing Editor
The good thing about standards, it has been said, is that there are so many to choose from. That is certainly proving to be the case for the standards used to operate the interfaces of machine vision cameras.
Robert T. Couture is a senior machine vision specialist at EngaTech Inc. in Chester, Va., whose clients are found in industries that include automotive, electronics, food and beverages, textiles and pharmaceuticals. In serving those customers, Couture noted, the company employs a number of interface standards. In fact, the list includes all that are available. “EngaTech works with GigE, Camera Link, IEEE-1394a/b [FireWire] and USB 2.0 digital formats as well as traditional analog format cameras,” he said...
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