SI-5100RGB MegaCamera™ 

5.17 Megapixel, 10-Bit Digital

USB 2.0 Smart Color Digital Camera

Silicon Imaging Inc.

Silicon Imaging is proud to continue its innovation in high-resolution color vision camera.  Driven by the growing demand for consumer Digital Still Cameras, CMOS sensors are continuing to break technical barriers and surpass the performance characteristics of CCD’s in many photonic, imaging and consumer applications.  By utilizing a single highly integrated CMOS device, which incorporates Megapixel sensing areas, timing generation, signal processing and high bandwidth outputs, Silicon Imaging has developed a very compact, low-power, ultra high speed Megapixel digital camera system.

5.1 Megapixel  - Ultra Resolution (2592 x 1944)
The SI-5100 is an all-digital CMOS camera that delivers 5.1 Million pixels of resolution and is capable of running at 4 frames/second at its full 2592 x 1944 resolution.   The entire package is only 45 x 52 x 50mm (33 x 40mm x 22mm in PCB) and is small enough to placed on a robot for semiconductor machine vision inspection or placed in an outdoor housing for remote surveillance.  It is ideal for live visualization of documents or films and scanning of biometrics for handprint or facial recognition.

10-Bits Sampling – Sub-Pixel Accuracy
The SI-5100 MegaCameraä uses 10-Bit digitizers to sample the pixel data.  Converting the pixel data directly to digital at the sensor head eliminates pixel-sampling jitter and enables accurate sub-pixel metrology, image analysis and improved live video reconstruction.  A programmable clock which ranges from 7~25MHz allows for trade-offs in speed versus exposure time and lower noise. 

15FPS SXGA Zooming and Subsampling - Fast Preview
Ideal for high-speed preview and focusing, the SI-5100 is capable of generating imagery at higher frame rate by reducing the size of the readout image. In subsampling Mode, the entire imager is readout by skipping pairs of pixels to maintain color information of neighboring bayer groups.  In this way, the 1280x960 (15fps) or 640x480 (30fps) image accurately represents the full size 2560x1920 field of view.   Zoom Mode delivers the same resolutions and increase of readout speed but in a cropped area of the sensor.  These zoomed windows can be positioned anywhere within the sensors field of view.

Automatic Color & Exposure Processing 
The SI-5100 has built in Automatic White Balance, Automatic Exposure and Automatic Gain Controls.  As lighting conditions vary, the camera will automatically adjust the exposure and gain in combination to obtain an image with a target brightness range, on a frame-by-frame basis. It also analyzes the distribution of RGB values in the scene and adjusts individual channel gains to maintain white balance. For controlled lighting and inspection applications, gain and exposure values can be set manually via simple commands and software presets.

 

USB2.0 Bus-Powered – 40MB/sec Transfers

For low-cost and portable connectivity, with data transfer rates up to 40MB/sec, the SI-5100U provide convenient capture using the High-Speed 480Mb/sec USB 2.0 interface. It is a bus-powered unit, consuming less than 500mA at 5VDC and will operate without any external power supply. The precision-machined C-mount housing includes an integrated tethered USB cable and optional 3-pin trigger/strobe connection. For OEM board level configurations, two General Purpose Outputs are accessible; Pull-Up and pull-down driven transistors to be used to control light sources and switches.

 

Microsoft-XP™ Live Mode Kernel Driver -  Fast captures

For applications which require a combination of high-resolution and streaming high-frame rate video images, Silicon Imaging has developed a custom driver which can request and capture double buffered images at the driver level.  This method enables immediate request to camera for next image without user level software intervention.  The double-buffers allow one image to processed by the host PC, while another image is being readout from the camera and filled into the user allocated memory space.

     

 

     FEATURES

·       2592 x 1944 Resolution (5.1 Million Pixels)

·       1/1.8” Imaging Format , 2.775um Square Pixel

·       Rolling Shutter, Progressive scan

·       1280 x 960 SXGA Subsampling & Zooming at 15fps

·       10 Bits per Pixel, 60dB Dynamic Range

·       7 ~ 25MHz Programmable Clock

·       Optical black level calibration

·       Programmable Gain, Exposure & Clocks

·       Auto Exposure and Gain Control  (AEC/AGC)

·       Auto White Balance Control (AWB)

·       Color Bayer RGB Model

·       33 x 40mm x 22mm PCB Version

·       USB Interface & Bus Powered

·       C-Mount Precision Machined Housing 

·       Image Capture & Color Processing SDK

 

SI-5100 Data Sheet                    SI-5100 Manual

SI-5100 USB2.0 MegaCamera Specifications

 

Sensor:

Optical Imaging Format

1/1.8”  (7.33mm x 5.44mm)

Active Pixels

2592H  x 1944V

Pixel Size (pitch)

2.775 µm x 2.775 µm

Pixel Type

CMOS

Aspect Ratio

1 : 1

Spectral Response

350 ~ 1100 nm

Readout Method

Progressive Scan

Black Level

Auto Black Level Calibration

Shutter

Rolling Shutter

Shutter Speed

Variable, 1 to 1998 row times

Windowing (ROI)

Horizontal & Vertical, No Speed-up

Subsampling

SXGA, VGA, HF Modes

Subsampling & Zoom

1280 x 960 (SXGA) 

640 x  480 (VGA)

320 x  200 (HF)

Dynamic range

60 dB (10-bit ADC Conversion)

Global Gain

1 to 8X, min step size 0.125

Red/Blue Gains

1/3-X to 3-X 

Horizontal Blanking

408(QSXGA), 352(SXGA), 176(VGA)

Minimum Row Time

3000 Clocks (2592+ 408 Blanking)

Vertical Blanking

56 Rows

Row/Frame Time

3000 clocks/row  x 2000rows = 4fps

 

ADC & Digital Video Output

A/D Conversion

Nominal 25Mhz (4fps @ 5.1MP)

Vertical Resolution

10 Bit 

Readout Format

8-bit or 16bit (10-bit data)

Readout Rate

7 ~ 25Mhz ( 8-bit format)

7 ~ 20Mhz  (16-bit format)

Max Transfer Rate

~ 40MB/sec (ICH4 or higher)

Max Frame Rate

 2592  x 1944

1280 x 960

640 x  480

25MHz

4

15

30

15MHz

2.5

9

20

  

USB2.0 High-Speed Interface & Control:

USB Speed

480Mb/sec (High-Speed)

Serial Communication

Endpoint 0, Vendor Protocol

Data Interface

Endpoint 2, 2K FIFO

Programmable Modes

Exposure, Gain, Windowing, Zoom Mode & Window Subsampling, Clock rates

Region-of–Interest

Programmable Horiz & Vertical

Auto Gain Controls

(AGC)

Manual / Automatic

Global & Red/Blue

Auto White Balance (AWB)

Manual / Automatic

AWB Threshold, AWB Speed

Auto Exposure Control (AEC)

Manual / Automatic

AEC Target Min/Max

AEC Speed/Steps

Histogram Counters

R/Gr/Gb/B Channel Average

Luminance Average

Setting Timing

Next top of Frame

External Triggers

(optional)

TTL Trigger-In / Strobe-Out

w/3-Pin connection (option)

 

Power

Input Voltage

+5  VDC +/- 10% < 500mA

Power Consumption

2.0 Watts

Trigger Connection (opt)

Tajimi RO3-PB3M 3Pin (optional)

Connection

USB Bus Powered

 

 

Mechanical

Lens Mount

C-Mount, 7mm Back focus Adj.

Enclosure Size

45mm W x 52mm H x 50mm L

Weight

8.5 oz. / 240g

Camera Mount

Ľ” x 20 standard tripod mount

Cable Connector

USB-A Cable Integrated

     

 

 

SI-5100RGB-U

5.1 Megapixel USB2.0 Camera, RGB= Bayer Color

   -PCB

PCB  (33x40mm) Version of Camera.  No housing included.

   -T

External Trigger & strobe with 3-Pin Connection and Trigger/Strobe Breakout Cable

SDK

Software Development Kit (Microsoft .NETSample Code, IPP Color Processing API & USB Capture

 

 

 

 
SI-5100 Camera Control GUI
  • Modes:  Windowing, Subsampling, Zoom
  • Image Capture:  2592 x 1944 
  • Sizes:  QSXGA, XGA(1280x960), VGA (640x480)
  • Bit Depth:  8 or 12 (10)
  • Auto Modes: AEC, AWB, AGC
  • Manual Controls:
Exposure
Global Gain 
Blue/Red Gain 
  • Auto Exposure Controls (AEC):  
Brightness Target & Bracket
Fast AEC Threshold: Low/high
  • Black Level Offset 
  • Programmable Clock:  7~ 25MHz
  • Auto Read-back of AEC/AGC/AWB Registers