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Camera and Illumination Controller

Full description of the Camera and Illumination Controller

The Camera and Illumination Controller (abbreviated as CIC) controls one camera and its associated illumination.

The camera is controlled with the Camera Trigger signal. For more information refer to Camera Trigger Signal.

The illumination device is controlled with the Strobe signal. For more information refer to Strobe Signal Paths.

The CIC is composed of 4 main interconnected blocks:

  • The Cycle Timing Machine is responsible for the generation of accurately timed events and signals structuring one camera and illumination controller cycle (CIC Cycle), namely: Camera Trigger and Strobe. For more information refer to Cycle Timing Machine
  • The Cycle Manager is responsible for the generation of the CycleStart event. It prevents initiating a new cycle while the start cycle conditions are not all satisfied and while the cycle timing machine doesn’t allow a new cycle to begin. For more information refer to Cycle Manager.
  • The Cycle Trigger Manager is responsible, in collaboration with the Cycle Manager and the Sequence Manager, to elaborate the effective CycleStart event that initiates one cycle of the Cycle Timing Machine. For more information refer to Cycle Trigger Manager.
  • The Sequence Manager manages sequences of CIC cycles according to user-defined start sequence and stop sequence conditions. For more information refer to Sequence Manager.