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Visual Applets 1.3
microEnable IV-GigE
microEnable IV-BASE x1 / -PoCL
microEnable IV-FULL x1/x4

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Smart dartboard
Graphical icons help speed system design
Hidden treasures - Programming with Visual Applets
Visual Applets Make FPGA programming A Snap
... further publications

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Software Compatibility:
Common Vision Blox 10.1
Software Compatibility:
Halcon 9.0
CameraLink Consortium: New Specification 1.1
Cameras: Compatibility overview (selection)
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Features
VISION 2009 Review
With the product series SmartApplets, additional libraries for VisualApplets and supplementing models in our product portfolio, our innovations were presented at the VISION 2009 show.
We thank for your visit at our booth again. Don't hesitate to contact us for additional information or preliminary discussion about your projects.
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SILICONSOFTWARE releases software version 5.0 (RT5) for microEnable series
With the release of the current version 5.02, the frame grabber board spectrum of SILICONSOFTWARE with PCI -(microEnable III series) and PCIe-frame grabber (microEnable IV series) for CameraLink- and GigE Vision cameras, is supported by a unified software and driver platform for 32bit and 64bit operation systems under Windows and Linux.
The merging of the existing software and driver versions into one will ease the programming of applications. The programming code can be used interface independent now. Besides the unified support of the hardware interfaces, also the software programming interfaces are based on one SDK and hardware applets architecture now. The usage of acquisition applets (image acquisition functionality) and VisualAppelts (customized hardware programming) is transparent. Even SmartApplets, which will be released soon, will be supported
The runtime software is available now and can be downloaded in the download section.
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Version 1.3 of VisualApplets available

SILICONSOFTWARE releases in version 1.3 of VisualApplets two new image preprocessing libraries among others. The first one covers an obejct segmentation (blob analysis) for area scan cameras (2D blob) and line scan cameras (1D blob). The analysis is processed on binarised images and supports with its high parallelism even a bandwidth of FULL Configuration cameras.
The objects are not limited in size, shape or overlapping position (1D). Up to 1024 objects per two lines can be detected, which corresponds to a number of 500.000 objects on a mega pixel sensor. The 1D blob for line scan cameras operates in endless mode; even an image height is defined. Image overlapping objects are combined and uniquely defined by their properties. The blob library features the output of number of objects, the according area, contour length and centers of gravity in x- and y-directions. A bounding box can be placed around the objects to extract the relevant ROI (regions on interest) for an adjacent image processing. In VisualApplets environment, the blob functionality can be combined with other preprocessing operators.
The second library covers a JPEG encoder for grayscale images. It supports bandwidth of up to 166 MB/s with configurable quality settings.

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microEnable IV frame grabber with GigabitEthernet support
The extension of the microEnable IV frame grabber series now supports GigE Vision cameras. The frame grabber is equipped with a four lane PCI Express interface (PCIe x4) and also programmable by VisualApplets. The frame grabber can be used from reliable and resource-saving image acquisition up to complex image processing on all channels in real time.
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Module 1: Thur. 11. March 2010
Module 1: Thur. 15. April 2010
Module 1: Tue. 04. May 2010
Module 1: Thur. 10. June 2010
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Product Catalog [eng/ger]
"GigabitEthernet or the Return of Frame Grabbers" [en]
"A Funeral Parade for the Frame Grabber" [en]
"Visionary" [en]

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