New board
November 1st 2005 Engineers building machine vision systems now can trigger and synchronise multiple IEEE 1394 (FireWire) cameras without needing additional digital I/O or custom circuitry using the new National Instruments PCI-8254R image acquisition board. The board, that has NI reconfigurable technology, combines an IEEE 1394 host adaptor with the digital I/O required for industrial control and automation.
Engineers can extend the functionality of the PCI-8254R board by taking advantage of NI reconfigurable I/O technology.
Using the NI LabVIEW FPGA Module, engineers can customise the board's 29 digital I/O lines to perform a wider variety of packaging inspection, assembly verification and robot control applications.
The PCI-8254R image acquisition board includes two IEEE 1394a ports and the NI-IMAQ for IEEE 1394 cameras driver software to help engineers access, configure and acquire images from up to 16 cameras. More articles from National Instruments UK Limited: | 
