Application Programming Interfaces¶

• Application Programming Interfaces
  • SDK - Software development kit
  • Languages and standards
  • Software packages
  • Application Tools
  • Development Environments
  • Vision Libraries

SDK - Software development kit¶

All XIMEA cameras are supported by our unified API / SDK.
To update Firmware of your specific model check This link.

Languages and standards¶

	GenTL	GenICam standard transport layer interface, grabbing images
	xiAPI	Streamlined API/SDK, plain C/C++
	xiAPI.NET	C# Managed .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) API/SDK
	xiApiPython	Python API

Software packages¶

Our Software packages contain camera drivers, API libraries, examples and tools for different OS.

						For Windows:	XIMEA Windows Software Package
						For Linux:	XIMEA Linux Software Package
						For macOS:	XIMEA macOS Software Package

Application Tools¶

There are several utilities available for customers for comfortable use of XIMEA cameras.

CamTool - Viewer like tool for setting parameters, recording video and much more.


xiCOP - Diagnostic tool to make the cameras work effectively on different PC setups.

Development Environments¶

Jupyter

Simple application development in JupyterLab using the Python API

Vision Libraries¶

XIMEA API supports more than 30 of the most popular Machine Vision Libraries:

List of vision Libaries supported in Windows