Designing FireWire applications

摘要

In traditional machine-vision and image-processing applications, industrial analog and digital cameras are connected to frame-grabber add-in boards installed in the host computer using a dedicated cable for each camera. As a result, typical industrial inspection systems involve multiple cameras, sensors, actuators, and boards all connected with different types of cables. To solve this multiple-cable problem, FireWire (IEEE 1394) camera interfaces and connectors enable a flexible networking bus environment that can support different types of peripheral devices, substantially decrease and simplify the cabling, and reduce system cost. FireWire-compatible products, such as cameras, add-in boards, computers with an embedded FireWire interface, hubs, and software- development tools, are now available in quantities to meet a range of system requirements.