BVS CA-GX0/BVS CA-GX2 devices are GigE Vision™ compliant devices, using a GenICam XML-file describing the device capabilities. Within this XML-file it uses the names, units, data types etc. recommended by the SFNC to describe the devices features. Whenever custom features have been added to the BVS CA-GX0/BVS CA-GX2 firmware these can clearly be spotted by the leading 'mv' in the features name. The device can communicate with every third party software stack, that complies with the GigE Vision™ standard.

The following figure explains the required software stack for GenICam™ GenTL compliant devices built by Balluff/MATRIX VISION:

Figure 1: GenICam™ software stack

As shown in figure 1, for BVS CA-GX0/BVS CA-GX2 devices the Impact Acquire interface is built on top of a GigE Vision and GenICam GenTL Producer layer. The Impact Acquire interface internally uses the GenICam runtime libraries, so that it can be considered as a GenICam GenTL Consumer.