Unibrain 830 User Manual

Unibrain Ultra Compact firewire cameras Models: 530/630/830 User Operation Manual Version 1.0 September 2008

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 4 1.5. Electrical Operating Condition Trigger Recommended Trigger Example 1 Recommende

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 5 Strobe Recommended Strobe Example 1 Recommended Strobe Example 2 User SideStrobeOpto. Cou

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 6 1.6. Pixel Data The Unibrain Fire-i ultra compact form Series complies with the IIDC 1

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 7 U-(K+Pn-8) Y-(K+Pn-8) Y-(K+Pn-7) V-(K+Pn-8) Y-(K+Pn-6) Y-(K+Pn-5) U-(K+Pn-4) Y-(K+

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 8 <U, V> Each component has 8 bit data. The data type is “Straight Binary” Signal

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 9 2. Camera Specifications 2.1. Monochrome cameras 2.1.1. Fire-i 830b Specification Feat

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 10 2.1.2. Fire-i 630b Specification Features Image Sensor Type 1/3-inch Interline CCD (S

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 11 2.1.3. Fire-i 530b Specification Features Image Sensor 1/3-inch Interline CCD (Sony I

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 12 2.2. Color Cameras 2.2.1. Fire-i 830c Specification Features Image Sensor Type 1/1.8-

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 13 2.2.2. Fire-i 630c Specification Features Image Sensor Type 1/3-inch Interline CCD (

Legal Notice For Customers in U.S.A. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuan

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 14 2.2.3. Fire-i 530c Specification Features Image Sensor Type 1/3-inch Interline CCD (I

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 15 2.3. Spectral Sensitivity Excludes lens and light source characteristics. 2.3.1. B&a

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 16 Spectral Sensitivity for Fire-i 530b

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 17 2.3.2. Color Cameras Spectral Sensitivity for Fire-i 830c Spectral Sensitivity for

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 18 Spectral Sensitivity for Fire-i 530c

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 19 3. Basic Operation and Features The Unibrain cameras employ a progressive scan CCD sens

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 20 1: Control with value in Absolute value CSR if this bit =1, value in Value filed is igno

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 21 0:OFF, 1:ON If this bit=0, other fields will be read only. A_M_Mode [7] Write: set the

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 22 Status Control Register Address Name Field Bit Description 80Ch WHITE_BALANCE Prese

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 23 050010001500200025003000350040000 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 Gamma Range Ta

Before You Start This manual should help you in installation and setting of the camera and we recommend you to carefully follow the instruction

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 24 2903~3304 100ms T= (Y-2902)*100+5800 ms 5.9s ~ 46s 3305~3508 1s T= (Y-3304)*1000+46

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 25 3.9.1. Supported Trigger Trigger Edge Rising Edge or Falling Edge Mode 0, 1, 2, 3,

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 26 3.9.2. Trigger and Strobe Signal Relation

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 27 3.9.3. Timing Diagram for External Trigger and Shutter and Strobe This diagram shows

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 28 3.9.4. Trigger Mode 0 The Camera starts integration of the incoming light from the ext

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 29 3.9.7. Trigger Mode 3 Not supported at Format 7 Mode This is an internal trigger mode

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 30 3.9.9. Trigger Mode 5 This mode is the “multiple shutter pulse width mode”. The camera

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 31

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 32 3.10. Strobe Control Register Base Address: 0xF2F23000h Address Name Field Bit Desc

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 33 active output, 1: High active output) Delay_Value [8..19] Delay after start of exposu

Table of contents 1. Introduction ...

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 34 3.11. Trigger Delay Control Based on the external triggers, the user can delay imag

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 35 The table shows the strobe index by the increment step through strobe delay time and str

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 36 3.12. Optical Filter Control The Optical Filter control allows the user to change the

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 37 3.13. Color (Bayer) Patterns Conversion Color sensors capture images through an optical

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 38 4. Advanced Features 4.1. Binning Mode Binning is defined as reading neighboring pix

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 39 4.1.3. Full Binning Full binning mode can be obtained by combining both vertical and ho

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 40 4.2. Partial Scan Cameras provide a certain resolution which is dictated by the image s

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 41 4.3. Pan/Tilt Pan/Tilt is a function used to move a camera up and down or left and righ

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 42 Pan/Tilt Details for Fire-i 830b & Fire-i 830c Image Size Movement Fire-i 830b

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 43 4.4. One-Shot and Multi-Shot This camera supports One-Shot and Multi-Shot features. The

3.8. Gain ...

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 44 4.5. Multi-Camera Auto-sync. Not supported in 3.75 fps In applications incorporating

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 45 4.7. Memory Channel Save / Load The setting of the camera features (Shutter, Gain, etc)

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 46 4.8. Time Stamp Register The Time stamp register may be inquired from the Native Fire

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 47 4.9. Serial Interface The cameras are equipped with the SIO (Serial input/output) feat

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 48 STEP 3 Read RS232 RX data from SIO_Data_Register (addr. : F2F22100 ) STEP 4 If dat

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 49 SIO (RS232) TX Control Procedure Method II STEP 1 Check TX buffer size by reading TBU

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 50 4.9.2. SIO(RS232) Registers Base address: F2F22000h, default baud rate is 57600 Addre

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 51 Write : 0: Clear flag 1: Ignored PER [14] Receive data parity error Read : Current st

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 52 4.9.3. SIO(RS232) Special Commands 0xF2F10018 Auto-Sync Mode control register Bit 31

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 53 S AF 0Bytes Z ‘G’+18 Byte Read feature control value Return value order ‘G’[Gain]

SIO (RS232) RX Control Procedure ...

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 54 4.10. Frame Save Function The Fire-i ultra compact form series cameras can save their

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 55 4.11. LUT (Lookup table) The cameras support a LUT, which provides the user with an ima

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 56 The user defined LUT save procedure is: 1. Check the save ready bit (bit1) status

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 57 4.12. One Pixel Snow Noise Remove With this function, it is possible to average the v

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 58 4.13. PIO Control Register Short for Programmable Input/Output, PIO provides a set o

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 59 5. User Defined (custom) FIREWIRE Registers User defined registers are features undefin

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 60 0xF2F10018 Mode control register Bit 31 : auto sync enable Bit 30 : SIO enable mode (0 :

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 61 image command 0xF2F1012C 4 step knee LUT run control register LUT knee 1st point registe

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 62 0xF2F10150 Snow noise remove threshold register Bit 0 : presence inquiry (read only) Bit

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 63 6. Video Formats and Modes IIDC 1.31 defines several video formats which determine the

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 1 1. Introduction 1.1. Overview Unibrain’s new Fire-i ultra compact Industrial Firewir

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 64 6.1. Fire-i 830b / Fire-i 830c Format Mode Resolution 60fps 30fps 15fps 7.5fps

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 65 6.2. Fire-i 630b / Fire-i 630c Format Mode Resolution 60fps 30fps 15fps 7.5fps 3

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 66 6.4. Trouble Shooting FireWire based cameras are operated in connection with system whe

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 67 7. Technical Support We ensure the conformity of our product to be reliable and free fr

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 2 1.2. Dimensions and Description Camera Body Size : 29 (w) x 29 (H) x 39(D) mm Camer

Unibrain Fire-i 530/630/830 Operation Manual Page 3 1.4. Firewire Port The industry standard FireWire (IEEE-1394) port has the following pi