Definitions
Acronyms

Camera and Illumination Controller

Common Transport Interface

CoaXPress

European Machine Vision Association

Pixel Format Naming Convention

Standard Features Naming Convention
Glossary

GenTL module that represents a memory buffer. Buffers must be announced to the data stream that will fill them with image data.

Defines when and where (in which thread) callback functions are executed.
One of CallbackOnDemand
, CallbackSingleThread
,
CallbackMultiThread
.

Part of Coaxlink card that controls a camera and its associated illumination devices.
Hosted in the device module.

High speed digital interface standard that allows the transmission of data from a device (e.g., a camera) to a host (e.g., a frame grabber inside a computer) over one or several coaxial cables.

GenTL producer.

GenTL module that handles buffers.

GenTL module that contains the frame grabber settings relating to the camera.
Parent of the data stream module.
Sibling of the remote device.

The GenICam standard that deals with camera and frame grabber configuration.

Camera or frame grabber feature, defined in a register description.
Either a set/get parameter, or a command with side effects.

The GenICam standard that deals with data transport. TL stands for Transport Layer.

Software library that implements the GenTL API.
File with the cti
extension (e.g.,
coaxlink.cti
).

Numerical identifier used to query a specific piece of information from a GenTL
module. Info commands are defined either in the standard GenTL header file, or in a vendor-specific header
file (e.g., info commands specific to Coaxlink are defined in include/GenTL_v1_5_EuresysCustom.h
).

GenTL module that represents a frame grabber.
Parent of the device module.

Part of Coaxlink card that controls digital I/O lines and implements tools such as rate converters, delay lines, etc.
Hosted in the interface module.

XML file mapping low-level hardware registers to camera or frame grabber features.

Camera connected to a frame grabber.
The term remote is used to distinguish this from the GenTL device module.

GenTL module that represents the GenTL producer.
Also known as TLSystem.
Parent of the interface module.

The time at which an event occurs.
For Coaxlink, timestamps are always 64-bit integers and are expressed as the number of microseconds that have elapsed since the computer was started.