Imaging Development Systems (IDS), a producer of medical and machine vision technology, has released USB 3.0 UI-3580CP-C industrial cameras, which use the new Aptina 5 megapixel CMOS sensor.
The colour imager offers a resolution of 2,560 x 1,920 pixels at 15fps. A monochrome sensor model, the UI-3480CP-M, is also available.
Digital I/Os include trigger, flash and pulse width modulation, while two GPIOs are optically isolated and connected via a Hirose connector. Thanks to its compact, lightweight magnesium housing, the camera is particularly well-suited to applications where space is limited.
To simplify deployment of the cameras, IDS offers a software package for Microsoft Windows and Linux that includes 32/64-bit drivers, demo programs, and source code in C++, C# and VB.
The cameras' USB 3.0 interface delivers a data rate up to 400MB/s.
