Product Description
Model Description: CONP4 - Matrox Concord PoE quad-port PCIe 2.1 x4 Gigabit Ethernet NIC with PoE. Partially licensed for Aurora Design Assistant.
GigE Vision interface cards for simplified cabling Zebra®
Concord PoE is a new generation of Gigabit Ethernet adaptors for interfacing one or more GigE Vision® cameras supporting power-over-Ethernet (PoE). Available with two or four Gigabit Ethernet ports, these network interface cards (NICs) simplify system configuration, not only by handling command and streaming protocols but also providing power over a single standard Cat 5e/6 cable per camera connection. An isolated PoE implementation protects cameras, board, and host computer from damage due to electrical faults and stray current that adversely affects camera detection.
ToE
Zebra Concord PoE also provides—as an option—a useful ToE capability for multiple cameras working together. The hardware assisted ToE capability allows the sending of a software trigger or an action-command to one or more cameras based on an external input event. The ToE applies to camera(s) on the same or multiple Ethernet ports for a given trigger event. Moreover, this ToE feature helps reduce trigger latency and remove jitter brought on by a non-deterministic host environment.
Real-time I/Os
The ToE option includes digital I/Os that are managed by a dedicated hardware-assisted mechanism for real-time performance. The mechanism enables output events to occur at precise moments in time, based on elapsed time, or for specific input events. An input event can come directly from a discrete input—including from a rotary encoder—or be count-derived from a discrete input. Programmed output events are stored in a hardware list, which is traversed based on a clock or an input event. The carrying out of an output event results in a state transition, pulse, or pulse train on a specific discrete output. Multiple cascadable hardware timers are available to count or generate specific events.
Software Environment
Pairs with Aurora Imaging software The Zebra Concord PoE board gives access to the GigE Vision support in Aurora Imaging Software, thus removing the need for an additional feature license. The card also acts as a license fingerprint and can store a supplemental license for Aurora Imaging software, avoiding the need for a separate hardware key. Aurora Imaging Software is a comprehensive software development kit (SDK) with a 25-plus-year history of reliable performance. This toolkit features interactive software and programming functions for image capture, processing, analysis, annotation, display, and archiving operations, with the accuracy and robustness needed to tackle the most demanding applications. Refer to the Aurora Imaging Software datasheet for more information.
Field-proven application development software Zebra Concord PoE is supported by both Aurora Imaging Software and Aurora Design Assistant software1,2, formerly Matrox Design Assistant (DA). Each software offers developers a different environment with the same underlying vision tools. Aurora Design Assistant is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows® where vision applications are created by constructing an intuitive flowchart instead of writing traditional program code. Aurora Design Assistant's IDE also enables users to design a graphical web-based operator interface for the application. Refer to the Aurora Design Assistant datasheet for more information.
**Licensed for the Aurora Design Assistant Interface (GigE Vision) run-time package. See Aurora Design Assistant and Aurora Imaging Library datasheets for more information. Aurora Imaging Library-Lite software available for download from www.matrox.com/imaging Support Aurora Imaging Library-Lite DOWNLOAD.
