PIXCI SI2

The PIXCI® SI2 frame grabber provides low cost high resolution capture from two SILICON VIDEO® cameras. Two cameras, operating at maximum resolution, frame rate, and bit depth, can generate image data at rates up to 280 megabytes per second – exceeding the 202 megabyte per second bandwidth limit of the PCI Express x1 bus. The PIXCI® SI2 frame grabber allows simultaneous image capture from two cameras into 64 megabytes of on-board memory. After images are captured in on-board memory they are transferred to the PCI Express bus. The PXICI® SI2 on-board memory allows stereo image acquisition that would otherwise require a PIXCI® SI4 PCI Express x4 frame grabber or two PIXCI® SI1 frame grabbers.

Triggered capture provides asynchronous capture and flash control. Two cameras can be synchronized for simultaneous stereo image capture. The PIXCI® SI2 is available with a standard height or a low-profile bracket. Compatible SILICON VIDEO® cameras have resolutions from 0.3 to 10 megapixels.

The XCAP-Lite imaging program, included with the PIXCI® SI2, provides board and camera controls with limited capture and save capabilities. Choose the XCAP-Ltd program for convenient sequence capture, display, and save to memory. Choose XCAP-Std for maximum capture, display, and save capabilities combined with extensive processing, measurement, and analysis (including image save directly to disk). Programmer’s libraries (XCLIB) and image processing subroutines (PXIPL) are available for solving the most difficult particle tracking, machine vision measurement, inspection, and image analysis tasks.

EPIX, Inc. assembles complete imaging systems with cameras, frame grabbers, high-performance PCI Express motherboards, and RAID arrays for video-to-disk capture.