With today’s rapidly evolving technology, increased miniaturization along with increased processing power, there is some confusion about when and where “intelligence” needs to be added to an image processing system.  The best way to make a purchasing decision will depend on finding the easiest and most cost effective approach by analyzing one’s situation using the factors described here. CLICK HERE to find the Vision & Sensor Magazine's Table of Contents; and CLICK HERE to read the complete article by FastVision's founder and CEO, Dr. Joseph Sgro.

This television segment of Fred Thompson's INSIDE BUSINESS features an interview with Dr. Joseph Sgro, founder and CEO of FastVision. CLICK HERE to see the TV interview.

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“The Fast-XL Frame grabber is for OEMs and End Users who anticipate a demand for extreme I/O requirements or higher band width for FastVision's FastCamera 13 and FastCamera 40 series CMOS cameras in a cost effective platform configurations,” said Dr. Joseph Sgro, founder and CEO of FastVision. “The Fast-XL is an AT length PCI board with 80 bit Camera Link Channels which provides input for the newest high speed cameras.”

“FastViewer USB provides users with a unified Windows®-based GUI software product which allows easy control of data acquisition and camera control across FastVision’s family of cameras,” said Dr. Joseph Sgro, founder and CEO of Fast Vision, LLC. “FastVision USB cameras can provide data to a user in two ways, for preview on the screen and for data transfer. In the preview mode you will see a 30 frame per second image on the display. The data transfer mode transfers the data at maximum USB2.0 rates (approximately 30 MB/sec) from the camera memory to the host computer memory.”

“The FastViewer software allows FastVision FastCamera Series of cameras to be easily connected to and integrated with FastVision‘s framegrabbers.” said Dr. Joseph Sgro, founder and CEO of FastVision, LLC. “The Fast Viewer application is a Windows GUI based application making frame grabbers and camera work together for easy configuration and acquisition.”

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“ When integrated with a ‘camera link’ framegrabber/coprocessor board, the resulting system capabilities can be expanded by adding processors and memory on the board according to the needs of the user.,” said Dr.Joseph Sgro, founder and CEO of FastVision, LLC. “When integrated with a camera link framegrabber/coprocessor board, the resulting system capabilities can be expanded dramatically according to the needs of the user. Another option is the USB2.0 version which allows the full rate capture of events in the camera memory for eventual downloading.”