The Balluff Multi-Core Acquisition Optimizer is a combination of device firmware and host driver features that allow to explicitly define which and how many CPU cores are used for processing the network data that is received by the host system coming from a GigE Vision™ device. It enables applications to share the load in a way the host system can deal with it best and as a side effect it allows to decouple the network data processing from the rest of the application.

The following table contains the minimum Impact Acquire driver versions needed to use the Balluff Multi-Core Acquisition Optimizer:

	Windows 32-bit	Windows 64-bit	Linux x86_64	Linux ARMhf	Linux ARM64
Supported	2.44.0	2.44.0	2.46.0	2.46.0	2.46.0

The following table contains the minimum firmware version for product families needed to use the Balluff Multi-Core Acquisition Optimizer:

Family	Minimum Firmware
BVS CA-GX0	2.44.0
BVS CA-GX2	2.44.0
BVS CA-GT	2.43.0