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Introduction

Grablink Quickpack CFA —Color Filter Array— is a flexible and high-performance image acquisition and pre-processing board, dedicated to area-scan color inspection. A set of dedicated on-board pre-processing functions speeds up image processing for applications such as PCB, food or pharmaceutical inspection without loading the host CPU.

These functions include a Bayer pattern decoder and a luminance blender providing simultaneous Y and RGB output —planar or packed— for monochrome and color inspection. An optional white balance is computed from automatically selected white pixels or from a user-defined ROI. Finally, four independent LUT operators are available for the R, G, B and Y components.

Grablink Quickpack CFA interfaces with Base configuration Camera Link area-scan cameras up to 85 MHz, and it processes 8-, 10- or 12-bit images. Grablink Quickpack CFA has a 128 MB memory and features nine general-purpose I/O lines to ease the board integration into industrial systems. The on-board FPGA accelerates the images pre-processing for 8-, 10- or 12-bit images and up to 80 MPixels/s.

Grablink Quickpack CFA is available in two types.

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GRABLINK Quickpack CFA (PCI)

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GRABLINK Quickpack CFA PCIe

Note. Grablink Quickpack CFA fully complies with FCC and CE EMC —electromagnetic compatibility— international standards. Grablink Quickpack CFA PCIe is a PoCL Safe Power compliant frame grabber.