High Speed Video - Hardware 1.3.2006

DVR Express Hard Disk Controller

The CLFC Hard Disk Controller (Camera Link Fibre Channel) is IO Industries newest hardware designed for pure performance. It achieves continuous data rates of 850 MByte/second through 5 independent 2 GBytes fibre channel buses to standard Fibre Channel drives. The maximum configurable storage capacity is a whopping 189 000 GBytes, providing up to 61 hours of recording at 850 MB/s.

CLFC Highlights:
  • Supports Camera Link Base, Medium,
    Full and Full-80 bit formats
  • RAID 3 protection against data loss
  • Time stamp generated onboard


CLFC Hard Disk Controller

CLFC Data Sheet.PDF



The CL160 Hard Disk Controller is a cost effective solution for standard cameras (Camera Link Base or LVDS) and standard SCSI hard disk drives. Multiple cards may be installed in a PC to support systems with multiple cameras or multi-tap cameras with higher bandwidth. Based on this controller we have integrated systems with 8 high resolution cameras recording on hard disk array at high speed. The maximum data rate achieved with 8 cards is 1040 MBytes/s.    

DVR Express CL 160

CL 160 Data Sheet.PDF

CL 160 Manual.PDF



Frame Grabber

The NI PCIe-1429 Frame Grabber from National Instruments can handle the high bandwidth from the Basler A504 high speed camera running at 500 fps with a resolution of 1280x1024. The image data rate of 680 MBytes/s is passed through the new PCI Express Bus. The card is the industry's first PCI Express image acquisition board with a four-lane (x4) Express interface. The recommended software is LabVIEW from National Instruments. As a partner from National Instruments COSYCO sells a complete solution based on the A504 (monochrome or color) NI PCIe-1429, cable and PCI Express computer with enough memory to record several seconds of high speed uncompressed video.

NI PCle-1429

NI PCIe-1429 Data Sheet.PDF

NI PCIe-1429 Manual.PDF



PIXCI CL3SD is a Frame Grabber with onboard memory especially designed for the Basler A504 camera. The camera delivers a sustained data rate of 680 MBytes/s through 10 taps (channels). The onboard memory capacity starts with 1GBytess and goes up to 4 GBytess giving a maximum recording time of 6 seconds at full speed. The recorded images are displayed through the PC's standard graphics card or stored on hard disk. All serial communication for changing the camera settings (frame rate, frame size, shutter) is done through the camera link cable making a separate serial communication line obsolete.

Special characteristics:
  • Extended Camera Link standard (special Basler A504)
  • Frame rate up to 500 frames/second at full resolution
  • Higher frame rates at lower resolution


PIXICI CL3SD Data Sheet.PDF