Balluff - BVS CA-MLC / BVS CA-IGC / mvBlueFOX Technical Documentation
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The driver supplied with the Balluff/MATRIX VISION product represents the port between the programmer and the hardware. The driver concept of Balluff provides a standardized programming interface to all image processing products made by Balluff GmbH.
The advantage of this concept for the programmer is that a developed application runs without the need for any major modifications to the various image processing products made by Balluff GmbH. You can also incorporate new driver versions, which are available for download free of charge on our website:
https://www.balluff.com.
The following diagram shows a schematic structure of the driver concept:
mv.impact.acquire.dll
). The namespace mv.impact.acquire
of mv.impact.acquire.dll
provides a more natural and more efficient access to the same features as contained in the deprecated namespace mvIMPACT_NET.acquire
of mvIMPACT_NET.dll
, which is why the latter one should only be used for backward compatibility but NOT when developing a new application.A couple of devices are supported by NeuroCheck. However between NeuroCheck 5.x and NeuroCheck 6.x there has been a breaking change in the internal interfaces. Therefore also the list of supported devices differs from one version to another and some additional libraries might be required.
For NeuroCheck 5.x the following devices are supported:
Device | Additional software needed |
mvTITAN-G1 | mvSDK driver for mvTITAN/mvGAMMA devices |
mvTITAN-CL | mvSDK driver for mvTITAN/mvGAMMA devices |
mvGAMMA-CL | mvSDK driver for mvTITAN/mvGAMMA devices |
mvBlueFOX | Impact Acquire driver for mvBlueFOX devices, NCUSBmvBF.dll |
For NeuroCheck 6.0 the following devices are supported:
Device | Additional software needed |
mvTITAN-G1 | Impact Acquire driver for mvTITAN/mvGAMMA devices |
mvTITAN-CL | Impact Acquire driver for mvTITAN/mvGAMMA devices |
mvGAMMA-CL | Impact Acquire driver for mvTITAN/mvGAMMA devices |
mvHYPERION-CLb | Impact Acquire driver for mvHYPERION devices |
Every other Impact Acquire compliant device | Impact Acquire driver for the corresponding device family, mv.impact.acquire.NeuroCheck6.dll (comes with the driver package, but the driver package must be installed AFTER installing NeuroCheck 6 |
For NeuroCheck 6.1 the following devices are supported:
Device | Additional software needed |
mvTITAN-G1 | Impact Acquire driver for mvTITAN/mvGAMMA devices |
mvTITAN-CL | Impact Acquire driver for mvTITAN/mvGAMMA devices |
mvGAMMA-CL | Impact Acquire driver for mvTITAN/mvGAMMA devices |
mvHYPERION-CLb | Impact Acquire driver for mvHYPERION devices |
Every other Impact Acquire compliant device | Impact Acquire driver for the corresponding device family, mv.impact.acquire.NeuroCheck6_1.dll (comes with the driver package, but the driver package must be installed AFTER installing NeuroCheck 6.1 |
Every Impact Acquire driver package on Windows comes with an adapter to VisionPro from Cognex. The installation order does not matter. After the driver package and VisionPro has been installed, the next time VisionPro is started it will allow selecting the Impact Acquire device. No additional steps are needed.
Balluff/MATRIX VISION devices that also comply with the GigE Vision or USB3 Vision standard don't need any software at all, but can also use VisionPro's built-in GigE Vision or USB3 Vision support.
HALCON comes with built-in support for Impact Acquire compliant devices, so once a device driver has been installed for the Impact Acquire device, it can also be operated from a HALCON environment using the corresponding acquisition interface. No additional steps are needed.
Balluff/MATRIX VISION devices that also comply with the GigE Vision standard don't need any software at all, but can also use HALCON's built-in GigE Vision support.
As some Impact Acquire device driver packages also come with a GenTL compliant interface, these can also be operated through HALCON's built-in GenTL acquisition interface.
Every Impact Acquire compliant device can be operated under LabVIEW through an additional set of VIs which is shipped by Balluff as a separate installation (mvLabVIEW Acquire
).
Balluff/MATRIX VISION devices that also comply with the GigE Vision or USB3 Vision standard don't need any additional software at all, but can also be operated through LabVIEW's GigE Vision or USB3 Vision driver packages.
Every Impact Acquire compliant device driver package comes with an interface to DirectShow. In order to be usable from a DirectShow compliant application, devices must first be registered for DirectShow support. How to this is explained here.
Every Impact Acquire compliant device can be operated under https://micro-manager.org when using Impact Acquire and at least Micro-Manager 1.4.23 build AFTER 15.12.2016. The adapter needed is part of the Micro-Manager release. Additional information can be found here: https://micro-manager.org/wiki/MatrixVision.