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Acquisition Cards – A Wide Selection of Frame Grabbers and PC Cards
Basler offers quality-tested acquisition cards for use in your vision system. They ensure robust and reliable image acquisition - from acquisition to processing in the host PC.
Installing the vision system is easier than ever: via plug and play using a PC card or via an individually programmable frame grabber for project-specific requirements. Of course, we offer our cameras and many other Basler Vision components as an ideal match for the acquisition cards, for your cost-optimized vision system.

Basler PC Cards
PC cards are used to flexibly and easily connect your cameras to the host PC. They achieve high performance as well as reliable image acquisition via the interface you choose.

Basler Frame Grabbers
In particularly demanding (real-time) applications, frame grabbers are often used. They offer a very high computing power with low, deterministic latencies for fast and reliable data transfer.
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Frame grabber | 1 | 12,5 Gbps; 12,5 Gbps | Basler CXP-12 Interface Card 1C | CXP-12 | Frame grabber |
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Frame grabber | 4 | 6,25 Gbps; 25 Gbps | microEnable 5 ironman AQ8-CXP6D | CXP-6 | Frame grabber |
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Frame grabber | 2 | 6,8 Gbps; 6,8 Gbps (850 MB/s) | microEnable 5 ironman AD8-PoCL | Camera Link | Frame grabber |
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Frame grabber | 4 | 6,25 Gbps; 25 Gbps | microEnable 5 marathon ACX-QP | CXP-6 | Frame grabber |
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Frame grabber | 2 | 6,25 Gbps; 12,5 Gbps | microEnable 5 marathon ACX-DP | CXP-6 | Frame grabber |
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Frame grabber | 4 | 12,5 Gbps; 50 Gbps | imaWorx CXP-12 Quad | CXP-12 | Frame grabber |
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microDisplay X
During the activation of frame grabbers, microDisplay X helps you test the entire system configuration, select and parameterize applets and perform camera settings.
- Configure cameras (GenICam) and applets directly in the start window and save or access the configuration
- Load multiple applets (one applet per board)
- Enlarge DMA (Direct Memory Access) output window for a large-scale display of an individual DMA output
- Optimized accuracy of the frame rate information (frames per second) during the acquisition
- Easy setup of line scan camera systems with line profile and line histogram (provide information on individual pixel values and the distribution of a line)
- Buffer assigned in applet but not used (if the image section transferred by the camera is too small) is displayed in red in the DMA output window
- New log window to access general and camera discovery log information, grabber events and system status information at any time

microDiagnostics
microDiagnostics makes it possible to flash a frame grabber with applets and perform various tests for a successful activation
- Support with the speedy activation of the frame grabber
- Test functions simplify an overview of the full system’s functionality
- Simple camera change by selecting and flashing another applet

SDKs
The Software Development Kit (SDK) is an easy way to integrate a frame grabber and camera into the customer’s application while using complex trigger settings, particularly the microEnable frame grabber function, to their full extent. A generic application programming interface (API) enables platform-independent work. Of course, the SDK also helps system builders develop their own C/C++/C# or Python applications.
- Quick and easy integration of frame grabbers into your application and software environment
- Flexible for the use of different programming languages (C++, C#, Python)
- Reduced development times for projects

Basler pylon Camera Software Suite
With the pylon Camera Software Suite you can set up your boost camera and all its functions in a quick and effective way. It also helps you to integrate the camera into your software.
Basler pylon Camera Software Suite
VisualApplets 3
VisualApplets enables access to the FPGA processors in the image processing hardware, such as frame grabbers, industrial cameras and image processing devices, to implement individual image processing applications.
- Programming of the V-series frame grabbers and image processing hardware with special applications
- Bandwidth control and FPGA resource assessment
- Without expert skills or hardware programming
- Reuse proprietary VHDL libraries in VisualApplets
- Shorten project times, accelerate market availability

VisualApplets Embedder
Image processing devices become compatible with VisualApplets
- Unlimited configuration of FPGA hardware with specific image processing applications
- Promptly adjust image processing applications to customer and market requirements
- Plan and implement complete product lines in a short time
- Transfer developed image processing applications to different vision devices with minimal effort
- Reduce the data volume with image pre-processing and alternatively apply inexpensive interfaces such as Gigabit Ethernet
- End customers get the added value of programming the devices themselves in a specified framework
- End customers receive smart devices that guarantee them the most flexibility and investment reliability

VisualApplets Expert
Experienced users have the option of applying existing hardware code, debugging the design under runtime conditions and creating paths to parameters in hierarchical structures.
- With the custom library, system builders apply their image processing modules programmed in VHDL or Verilog (VHDL libraries) in VisualApplets as generic operators, thus preserving their preparatory work.
- The debugging library enables enhanced debugging to detect programming errors, deadlocks and bandwidth problems and to increase the design stability.
- The parameters library offers users tools to change even those parameters that might be deeply embedded in the design’s hierarchical structures. The changes are automatically and consistently updated during the runtime.

VisualApplets Libraries
VisualApplets libraries comprise multiple operator libraries which expand the operators’ scope with valuable image processing functions, such as those for segmentation, classification and compression.
- Segmentation/classification: These operators are used to segment and define objects in images and assign characteristics to them.
- Compression: The JPEG operator makes it possible to execute the JPEG image compression directly on the FPGA of the vision hardware to reduce image data.

VisualApplets Protection
To prevent the use of proprietary applets on external frame grabbers and thus protect intellectual property from outside access, the applets and frame grabbers can each be securely encoded with a lock.
- Applets and frame grabbers are each securely encoded with a lock.
- Two protective mechanisms guarantee maximum security.

Manuals
The manuals provide complete information on all aspects of usage - from installing frame grabbers and software to first acquisition checks to advanced image processing. Described are all frame grabber series and models available together with their hardware and software add-ons, their specific functionalities and all image processing options along with the graphical FPGA development environment VisualApplets.
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Basler Product Documentation – Offline Version (User's Manual)
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CXP-12 Interface Card 4C Feature Reference Manuals
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CXP-12 Interface Card 2C Feature Reference Manuals
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GenTL Producer: CXP Feature-Documentation
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CXP-12 Interface Card 1C Feature Reference Manual
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Basler boost CXP-12 Quick Install Guide

Brochures
Basler product brochures provide an overview of the many benefits offered by Basler accessories. They describe technical characteristics and product features and offer detailed information about the technical specifications.

White Papers
Basler White Papers provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamental theory of industrial image processing. The authors are all experts in their respective fields and go into detail on relevant thematic points of interest to novices and experienced users alike.
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CoaXPress 2.0 – The Standard in Industrial Image Processing for Demanding Applications
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CoaXPress 2.0 in the field of Medical and Life Sciences
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CoaXPress 2.0 as an Alternative to Camera Link - More Performance and Lower System Costs When upgrading the Camera Interface

Product Insights
Basler Product Insights highlight noteworthy information about the technical properties and features of various accessories. The Product Insights focus strongly on product-related topics, offering insights from the point of view of a Basler product manager.
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FPGAs Accelerate Deep Learning
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Deep Vision Becomes Reality with CNN
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Automating Thought — Opportunities and Risks
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Deep Learning in Image Processing
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Basler’s Vision Components Portfolio

Customer Stories
Basler Customer Stories describe a broad diversity of applications and potential uses for Basler frame grabbers on a variety of markets. They explain the requirements Basler’s customers had to face while designing their image processing system and how Basler frame frabbers successfully contributed to resolving the problem.
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PCB Inspection with Higher Speed and Precision
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Basler boost with Custom Interface Card in a Line Scan Application
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Process and Quality Optimized Foil Manufacturing
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Improved Image Quality for Tumor Surgeries
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Frame Grabber Power for Photometric Stereo Method
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Our acquisition cards at a glance

USB 3.0 interface cards for reliable image processing
With the USB 3.0 PC cards, you no longer have to worry about faulty drivers or operating system updates. You integrate your card with 2 or 4 ports by plug and play - and data errors and image loss are a thing of the past.
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GigE interface cards - full setup flexibility
Our PC cards greatly expand the possibilities for your GigE image processing system: flexible system configurations of multi-camera setups, exploitation of the full camera speed at long cable lengths and the selection of up to 10GigE all give you lots of freedom for an optimal setup.
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CXP-12 interface cards with pylon SDK - easy integration
The CXP-12 interface cards with 1, 2 and 4 ports form the ideal complement to the Basler CXP-12 cameras. Users not only control the camera, but also the plug and play frame grabber via Basler's famous pylon Software Development Kit. With this combination, you benefit from easy integration and, of course, smooth image acquisition and transfer.
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imaWorx frame grabber - first class computer vision with CXP-12
The imaWorx frame grabber series consists of image acquisition and processing cards of the highest category with large transmission bandwidths via 4 ports at minimum latencies, and best image quality. Even the most demanding inspection tasks can be implemented in a cost-optimized manner.
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microEnable 5 marathon - the endurance runner without compromises
The marathon frame grabbers are powerful acquisition and preprocessing cards for Camera Link and CXP-6. For deep learning, a programmable frame grabber (Camera Link) with high computing power was specially developed with the microEnable 5 marathon deepVCL.
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microEnable 5 ironman - sprints in the upper performance segment
The ironman frame grabbers are among the most powerful acquisition and preprocessing cards in machine vision with a very powerful vision processor (Xilinx FPGA of the Virtex 6 series). With the Camera Link or CXP-6 interface, they are used in all major industrial and application areas.
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