XIMEA unveils world’s smallest USB 3.0 industrial camera
With its USB 3.0 SuperSpeed data interface, XIMEA’s MQ series is capable of generating 5 Gbps, or the equivalent of 400 megapixels per second. Based on XIMEA’s more than 20 years’ experience building ultra-compact cameras, the MQ series offers the latest, highest-grade CMOS sensors with global shutter and improved quantum efficiency in the visible and NIR spectral ranges, resolutions from VGA to 4 Megapixels, and frame rates of up to 600 fps.
The MQ series also offers opto-isolated trigger input and lighting synchronization output, on-board non-volatile memory for user settings and custom data, and an HDR model with dynamic range of up to 100 dB. XIMEA’s MQ series cameras measure just 26.4 x 26.4 x 19.1 mm, weigh 26g, and consume between 1 W to 1.8 W, making the MQ series the smallest industrial USB 3.0 camera on the market. And like all XIMEA’s industrial cameras, each MQ series ships with APIs for the most common image processing software, including programs from Cognex, Matrox, National Instruments, MVTec, and many more.
USB 3.0 offers the same ease of use and flexibility that users have come to expect from USB 2.0 devices, but at a much higher data rate of 5 Gbps compared to the USB 2.0’s 480 Mbps. USB 3.0 also offers better power management (20 percent of USB 2.0). Cypress expects its new FX3 controller to enable USB 3.0 adoption across a variety of platforms, just as the Cypress FX2 controller did for USB 2.0. Cypress’s well-established USB portfolio includes enCoRe, EZ-USB USB controllers, West Bridg peripheral controllers, and WirelessUSB 2.4-GHz radios.
XIMEA’s MQ series camera based on Cypress’s FX3 controller follows XIMEA’s MU series of ultracompact board-level industrial cameras based on Cypress’s FX2 USB 2.0 controller.
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