BVS CA-BN devices are GenICam™ GenTL 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-BN 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 GenICam™ GenTL 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-BN devices the Impact Acquire interface is built on top of a GenICam™ GenTL 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.