iPORT AutoGEV – GenICam XML Management Tool

iPORT AutoGEV is an ingenious mapping tool that makes it fast and easy to gain compliance for any GigE camera or OEM system that uses Pleora's iPORT GigE connectivity products. It also allows Camera Link™ cameras to be integrated seamlessly into GigE Vision-compliant applications.

AutoGEV leverages Pleora's eBUS™ drivers – as well as innovations for compliance in iPORT IP engines and the iPORT PureGEV Suite – to form a comprehensive GigE Vision platform. From a user-friendly GUI, camera vendors and systems integrators use iPORT AutoGEV to build a database that maps GigE Vision read/write requests to existing serial camera control commands. AutoGEV uses this database to auto-generate the XML (extended mark-up language) device description file that must be provided with compliant cameras. This XML file defines the relationship between camera features and the GigE Vision registers used to access and control compliant cameras.

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Vendors then simply load the AutoGEV database and the XML file – if they choose to provide the XML file that way; they can also provide it as a web download or on disk – into the camera's internal iPORT IP Engine or a standalone iPORT engine connected to the camera. After that, the iPORT engine performs all tasks required to ensure the camera complies with the standard. It provides the XML file (if available in the GigE Vision-compliant device) to the GenICam module in the PC host, handles all commands to and from the camera, and delivers real-time communications over the GigE link in accordance with GigE Vision Protocols.

About GigE Vision
GigE Vision is a communications standard for transferring images and control signals between industrial video cameras and PCs over standard Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) links or LANs. The standard is managed by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA). For more information visit our GigE Vision section.

* For a partial list of iPORT-enabled cameras, visit www.pleora.com/camera_partners.