EyeVision 3.0 machine vision software on the RazerCam smart camera

22 Oct 2014

EVT presents the new EyeVision 3.0 machine vision software at the VISION show in Stuttgart. The revised graphical user interface of the software runs also on the new smart camera by EVT: the RazerCam. This highspeed camera contains free programmable FPGA, which optionally can be programmed via graphical tools, just as it is expected from the EyeVision software.

EyeVision 3.0 combines already well-proven features such as the drag-and-drop function and that on all hardware platforms such as smart cameras, vision sensors as well as PC and embedded systems runs only one graphical user interface (GUI).

With the new EyeVision 3.0 the GUI is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The software offers:

•   the GUI not only in languages such as English and German, but also in Japanese, Chinese or French and  Spanish. language selection on runtime
•  Plugin to create own commands in the graphical user interface of EyeVision 3.0
•  a Layout Manager to create and save custom-made interfaces
•  user rights management, so that each user can be assigned to only their tasks
•  an optional online statistic to display measurement- and CpK-values

The software still supports cameras with interfaces such as USB, GigE, FireWire, Camera Link, CoaXPress and analog cameras.

The RazerCam is a fast GigE smart camera with free programmable FPGA, which allows data to be preprocessed in real time. Based on the XILINX ZYNQ SoC, the camera has two ARM Cores.

The camera is equipped with a LINUX operating system. The user can therefore start programming immediately with the standard tools for LINUX. An extensive API makes it easier to create individual programs in C++ or C code. Thanks to numerous libraries for the ARM processor cores, applications can be solved quite fast.

As the FPGA allows the processing of image data already during the image capture, the RazerCam is suitable especially for highspeed tasks, where the data has to be preprocessed.

The programming of the FPGA is possible via various tools. On the one hand with VHDL and on the other hand quite easily with a graphical GUI, where ready-made functional blocks are arranged and compiled.

A tool chain, which allows the immediate programming in C/C++, is included and pre-configured. Optionally a directly executable Image for a virtual machine is also included. The programming systems are available for Windows and LINUX programming environments, for native as well as virtual machines.

The system is equipped with an Ethernet interface as well as the CAN Bus or RS485 interface and digital I/Os. Therefore the camera can be embedded directly into process environments.

The RazerCam is also available as EyeCheck 4xxx with integrated EyeVision software.

• For more information please visit: http://www.evt-web.com/en/home/ 
• Or visit the EVT at the VISION Show in Stuttgart between 4-6 November, Booth #1 A-63