RE: Ethernet camera

["Aladwan Ahed" <ahed.aladwan@psi.ch>]

Hi Matjaz,

At the SLS we interfaced CCD cameras with Firewire bus to EPICS (3.14.7 on Linux RH7.3), you can find all the info and the source code under:

http://epics.web.psi.ch/software/firewire/

We think Firewire is a good choice as it supports isochronous data - delivering data at a guaranteed rate. This makes it ideal for devices that need to transfer high priority data in real-time, such as video devices. It is also fast (400Mbit/sec) (53 frames/sec @ 1Byte and 1024*768 pixels and 80% usable bandwidth), actually, this is more than what the EPICS video server PC can process. The EPICS video server grabs the frames from the camera, process them, and then allow any CA enabled client application to access the processed data, this way we save our network bandwidth.

Cheers,
Ahed

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-b-tech-talk@mail.bessy.de [mailto:owner-b-tech-talk@mail.bessy.de] On Behalf Of Matjaz Kobal
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:34 PM
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: Ethernet camera

Hello,

We would like to integrate an ethernet camera into EPICS. Does anyone 
know of already existing solutions.
Thank you.

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