XIMEA's CamExpress enabled new levels of Image acquisition performance and convenience is now stepping up into Thunderbolt Technology. 10Gbps of interface bandwidth, directly to the PC memory, without any CPU overhead, opens new possibilities for the highest performance machine vision and industrial vision applications.
Starting 2 years ago, in development of CamExpress, XIMEA foresaw the development of camera interfaces towards technology which extend the PC local bus all the way to the image sensor. The major advantage of extending the local PC bus, conveniently provided by the Thunderbolt Technology, is elimination of redundant communication protocols, like USB, IEEE1394 or Gigabit Ethernet, which require significant resources to maintain their protocol stacks. This also eliminates the need of intermediate storage buffers, thus tremendously reducing image acquisition latency.
Two camera families from XIMEA - CURRERA and HDX, based on PCI Express technology to seamlessly deliver image data to the PC memory, immediately take benefits of recent reincarnation of "Light peak" from Intel in the form of Thunderbolt Technology released with new Apple MacBook Pro.
All XIMEA cameras are natively supported by major software image processing libraries via GenICam/GenTL producer and extensive set of image acquisition adapters.
* Thunderbolt and the Thunderbolt logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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