Pyramid Computer GmbH has extended its CamCube product range with two new IPCs for machine vision.

1. CamCube product range
New products: CamCube m & CamCube GPU

2. Machine vision
Current trends
 Increasing pricing pressure due to
expanding volume of machine vision
 USB 3.0 vision is gaining major
market share
 Higher resolutions, up to 43Mpix
 Higher data rates
 3D cameras
 Learning algorithms
 The demand of processing power
is growing faster than the Moore's Law

3. CamCube product range - overview
form factor
performance
CamCube m
CamCube
CamCube plus
CamCube GPU

4. Firewire GigE Vision
USB 3.0
Vision
Camera
Link
CoaXPress
Speed 0,768 Gb/s 1 Gb/s 5 Gb/s 6,1 Gb/s
N x 6,25 Gb/s
(N: cables)
Cable length 4.5 m 100 m 3 m 10 m 130 m
Real-time
trigger
No No No Yes Yes
Standard
interfaces
Yes Yes Yes No No
User cost Middle Low to middle Low High High
Power over
cable
Yes PoE 13 W 4.5 W PoCL 4 W N x 13 W
Overview of the current camera interfaces
+ USB 3.0 offers high dynamic performance at a low price
- A significant disadvantage in practice: Restricted to 3 m cable length

5. CamCube m
Produkt concept
 Delivers machine vision to
the cameras
 Avoids cable lengths exceeding 3 m
 Allows the use of USB cameras
 Integrated electronics for machine
vision
 Open plattform
 Freely configurable

6. CamCube m: Modular machine vision system
Configurations
 PC for machine vision

7. Configurations
 PC for machine vision
 Grabber-card (full height)
PoE USB 3.0FireWire GigE
CamCube m: Modular machine vision system

8. Configurations
 PC for machine vision
 Grabber-card (full height)
 Integrated industrial electronics
 Regulation of light intensity
CamCube m: Modular machine vision system

9. Configurations
 PC for machine vision
 Grabber-card (full height)
 Integrated industrial electronics
 Regulation of light intensity
 Digital I/O card
Digital I/O card
CamCube m: Modular machine vision system

10. Configurations
 PC for machine vision
 Grabber-card (full height)
 Integrated industrial electronics
 Regulation of light intensity
 Digital I/O card
 Fieldbus adapter
 Serial interfaces
 Customer-specific cards
 ….
CamCube m: Modular machine vision system

11. Configurations
 Chassis
 Powder coated (black)
 Stainless steel
 System cooling
 Active – up to 25 W
 Passive – up to 10 W
 Mainboard
 Mini-ITX
 From Intel® Atom™ up to Intel® Core™
 DC power supply 9-24 V
 Terminal blocks
 Jack plug with strain relief
CamCube m: Modular machine vision system

12. CamCube m: web inspection as an example of use

13. CamCube m
Summary
 Modular machine vision system
 Integrated industrial electronics
 Control cabinet not required
 Freely configurable
 Very compact design
 installation close to the camera
 Extends the application of
cost-effective USB 3.0 cameras
 cost advantages

14. Machine vision
Current trends
 Increasing pricing pressure due to
expanding volume of machine vision
 USB 3.0 vision is gaining major
market share
 Higher resolutions, up to 43Mpix
 Higher data rates
 3D cameras
 Learning algorithms
 The demand for processing power
is growing faster than Moore's Law

15. High-performance machine vision
CamCube and CamCube plus
 Intel® Core™ i3 up to i7
 From Intel® Core™ :
Intel® QuickAssist Technology
 CPU and graphics processor
run in parallel
 Increase in performance to no further
cost

16. High-performance machine vision
CamCube plus Dual Xeon
 2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2620v3
 2 CPUs run in parallel

17. CamCube GPU, CamRack GPU
Product idea
 One chassis – three mounting options
 CamCube GPU
 Desktop
 Wall mount
 CamRack GPU
 19 inch, 4U
 Only 320 mm depth
 1 CPU and 1-2 GPUs run in
parallel

18. CamCube GPU E3-1200
Features
 Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v3
 32 GB RAM
 3x PCIe 3.0 x16
 3x PCIe 2.0 x1
 Radeon R9
 3x USB 3.0
 2x 1TB in the trays
 Operating temperature up to +40°C

19. CamCube GPU, CamRack GPU
Coprocessors
 Intel® Xeon® and Xeon® Phi™
 Homogeneous programming
 Dynamic resource management
by OS

20. CamCube GPU, CamRack GPU
Application:
Learning algorithms
 Eight interconnected CamCube GPUs

21. CamCube Produktfamilie
CamCube m CamCube CamCube
plus
CamCube
GPU
CamRack
GPU
Width 193 mm 320 mm 413 mm 431 mm 19"
Height 140 mm 134 mm 189 mm 177 mm 4 HE
Depth 200 mm 317 mm 317 mm 320 mm 320 mm
CPU max. i3 i7 2x Xeon 2x Xeon 2x Xeon
GPU max. - Quick Assist Quick Assist 2x GPU 2x GPU
Slots 1 + 2 4 7 7 7
AC power supply - Yes Yes Yes
Yes
DC power supply Yes Yes - Yes Yes
UPS - - Yes - -
Operating
temperature
up to max.
50°C 45°C 45°C 40°C 40°C

22. A view into the future
www.pyramid.de/view.html
29th - 30th October, Porsche Museum, Stuttgart

23. Pyramid Computer GmbH
Boetzinger Strasse 60
79111 Freiburg
Germany
Tel.: 0049 761 4514 792
Email: sales@pyramid.de
Web: www.pyramid-computer.com