Dalsa expands Falcon camera family and enters solar-cell inspection market
Dalsa Corp of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has added the Falcon 4M60 and 4M30 colour cameras to its Falcon family. The company also reports that its machine-vision technology is enabling solar-cell manufacturers to increase productivity and reduce costs.
The 4-megapixel Falcon 4M60 and 4M30 cameras - offering maximum frame rates of 60 fps and 30 fps, respectively - use Dalsa's patented complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor technology with global shuttering to eliminate imaging issues, such as smearing or time displacement 'artefacts', often associated with full-frame, frame transfer, or rolling shutter cameras.
In addition, features such as individual colour gain and offset enable white balancing of the image and make this camera easy to use. Fully programmable with a base or medium Camera Link interface, the cameras incorporate vertical windowing, flat-field correction, exposure control, gain and offset adjustment and excellent anti-blooming, says the firm.
"High-speed image capture without smear or distortion, along with the capability for colour imaging will prove to have tremendous value for inspection applications in electronics and semiconductor industries, including flat panel displays. Providing better image quality together with colour images ensures more reliable inspection, which leads to fewer product defects," explained Mark Butler, Product Manager at Dalsa.
The Falcon 4M60/4M30 colour cameras are compatible with the company's X64-CL Series and Xcelera-CL Series of frame-grabbers.
In other news, Dalsa says that its expertise in area scan, line scan and embedded processing, which are used in the flat-panel display industry, is now being applied successfully to inspect solar cells. Using this technology is resulting in high-quality, yet cost-effective inspection capabilities for the solar cell industry.
"The solar cell inspection market demands high quality and high volume production. This is where Dalsa's capabilities provide a distinct competitive advantage," commented Philip Colet, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Dalsa.
Machine vision is used for three general purposes by solar cell manufacturers: product inspection, identification and tracking, and lastly, product assembly.
"Dalsa's cameras and hardware are used in the initial part of the quality inspection process to verify patterns and edges, inspect coatings and to check for micro-cracks. The precision of Dalsa's image capture and processing technology contributes to the immediate and accurate detection of defects in this critical stage of the manufacturing process," continued Colet.
A range of products developed by Dalsa is being used for inspecting solar cells, including the Piranha HS 4K (the company's fastest TDI camera), Falcon 4M60, Pantera 22M, Piranha3 8K and the real-time image-processing board, Anaconda.
Contact:
Dalsa Corp
605 McMurray Road
Waterloo
Ontario N2V 2E9
Canada
Phone: +1 519 886 6000
Fax: +1 519 886 8023
Email: Sales.Americas@dalsa.com
Web: http://www.dalsa.com
The 4-megapixel Falcon 4M60 and 4M30 cameras - offering maximum frame rates of 60 fps and 30 fps, respectively - use Dalsa's patented complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor technology with global shuttering to eliminate imaging issues, such as smearing or time displacement 'artefacts', often associated with full-frame, frame transfer, or rolling shutter cameras.
In addition, features such as individual colour gain and offset enable white balancing of the image and make this camera easy to use. Fully programmable with a base or medium Camera Link interface, the cameras incorporate vertical windowing, flat-field correction, exposure control, gain and offset adjustment and excellent anti-blooming, says the firm.
"High-speed image capture without smear or distortion, along with the capability for colour imaging will prove to have tremendous value for inspection applications in electronics and semiconductor industries, including flat panel displays. Providing better image quality together with colour images ensures more reliable inspection, which leads to fewer product defects," explained Mark Butler, Product Manager at Dalsa.
The Falcon 4M60/4M30 colour cameras are compatible with the company's X64-CL Series and Xcelera-CL Series of frame-grabbers.
In other news, Dalsa says that its expertise in area scan, line scan and embedded processing, which are used in the flat-panel display industry, is now being applied successfully to inspect solar cells. Using this technology is resulting in high-quality, yet cost-effective inspection capabilities for the solar cell industry.
"The solar cell inspection market demands high quality and high volume production. This is where Dalsa's capabilities provide a distinct competitive advantage," commented Philip Colet, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Dalsa.
Machine vision is used for three general purposes by solar cell manufacturers: product inspection, identification and tracking, and lastly, product assembly.
"Dalsa's cameras and hardware are used in the initial part of the quality inspection process to verify patterns and edges, inspect coatings and to check for micro-cracks. The precision of Dalsa's image capture and processing technology contributes to the immediate and accurate detection of defects in this critical stage of the manufacturing process," continued Colet.
A range of products developed by Dalsa is being used for inspecting solar cells, including the Piranha HS 4K (the company's fastest TDI camera), Falcon 4M60, Pantera 22M, Piranha3 8K and the real-time image-processing board, Anaconda.
Contact:
Dalsa Corp
605 McMurray Road
Waterloo
Ontario N2V 2E9
Canada
Phone: +1 519 886 6000
Fax: +1 519 886 8023
Email: Sales.Americas@dalsa.com
Web: http://www.dalsa.com
