iPORT GEV-TB External Frame Grabbers
Optimizes CPU Usage, Reduces System Costs and Simplifies Connectivity for High-Bandwidth GigE Vision Imaging Applications.
Pleora’s iPORT GEV-TB External Frame Grabber solves system cost and performance challenges for high-bandwidth machine vision applications by enabling low latency image and data transmission from GigE Vision cameras directly to Thunderbolt 3/4 USB-C ports on laptops, embedded platforms, single-board computers, and industrial PCs.
The external frame grabber converts GigE Vision cameras into PCIe cameras, transmitting up to 22.5 Gbps of imaging data with low, consistent latency over Cat5e or Cat6A Ethernet directly to Thunderbolt/USB-C ports. Eliminating the need for an available PCIe slot and interface card, designers can deploy lower cost, smaller footprint processing options ideal for portable and space-constrained imaging systems.
The solution’s built-in DMA (Direct Memory Access) engine transfers full image data directly to host memory with packet resend, ensuring low jitter and high reliability video transmission while freeing processing resources for application-specific tasks. The fanless design of the iPORT GEV-TB reduces power consumption and eliminates moving parts, ensuring performance longevity.
The iPORT GEV-TB External Frame Grabber is paired with Pleora’s eBUS™ SDK, enabling fast development of production-ready imaging solutions across GigE, 10 GigE, and USB 3.0 — all with a unified API.
The iPORT GEV-TB External Frame Grabber is initially available as a single-channel device, with future dual- and quad-channel solutions supporting optional IEEE 1588 and Power Over Ethernet (PoE / PoE+) capabilities.
Key Features
- Transmit up to 22.5 Gb/s of data from GigE Vision cameras with low, predictable latency and low CPU consumption directly to a Thunderbolt 3/4 USB-C port on the host processor over a Cat5e or Cat6A Ethernet cable
- External frame grabber enables the use of compact, cost-effective computing platforms, including laptops, embedded systems, and single-board computers
- Fanless design ensures performance longevity
- Built-in DMA (Direct Memory Access) engine offloads processing from the host system, freeing resources for application-specific tasks
- Plugs into a wide range of computing platforms without needing a PCI/PCIe frame grabber
- Line scan and area scan modes
- Compact and low power
- 4GB frame buffer to accommodate multi-mega pixel sensor sizes and hardware-enabled packet resend to ensure all image data is available for processing
- Available as off-the-shelf mountable enclosure and OEM board set to reduce integration complexity
- Feature-rich eBUS™ SDK application tool kit
- GigE Vision and GenICam compatible
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