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Enabling the Camera Link Serial Control Port
The Camera Link cabling specification includes a serial communication port for direct camera control by the frame grabber (see
" J1: Camera Link Connector 1 (applies to X64-CL iPro and X64-CL iPro\Lite)
" on page 92 ). The X64-CL iPro driver supports this serial communication port either directly or by mapping it to a host computer COM port. Any serial port communication program, such as Windows
HyperTerminal, can connect to the camera in use and modify its function modes via its serial port controls. The X64-CL iPro serial port supports communication speeds up to 115 kbps.
Note: if your serial communication program can directly select the X64-CL iPro serial port then mapping to a system COM port is not necessary.
The X64-CL iPro serial port is mapped to an available COM port by using the Sapera Configuration tool.
Run the program from the Windows start menu: Start • Programs • DALSA • Sapera LT •
Sapera Configuration.
COM Port Assignment
The lower section of the Sapera Configuration program screen contains the serial port configuration menu. Configure as follows:
• Use the Physical Port drop menu to select the Sapera board device from all available Sapera boards with serial ports (when more then one board is in the system).
• Use the Maps to drop menu to assign an available COM number to that Sapera board serial port.
• Click on the Save Settings Now button then the Close button. You are prompted to reboot your computer to enable the serial port mapping.
• The X64-CL iPro serial port, now mapped to COM3 in this example, is available as a serial port to any serial port application for camera control. Note that this serial port is not listed in the
Windows Control Panel•System Properties•Device Manager because it is a logical serial port
mapping.
• An example setup using Windows HyperTerminal follows (see
).
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Setup Example with Windows HyperTerminal
• Run HyperTerminal and type a name for the new connection when prompted. Then click OK.
• On the following dialog screen select the COM port to connect with. In this example the X64-
CL iPro serial port was previously mapped to COM3 by the Sapera Configuration program.
• HyperTerminal now presents a dialog to configure the COM port properties. Change settings as required by the camera you are connecting to. Note that the X64-CL iPro serial port does not support hardware flow control.
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