Balluff - BVS CA-GW Technical Documentation
Introduction
Figure 1: BVS CA-GW1

The BVS CA-GW1 is an extreme compact and flexible industrial 25 Gigabit Ethernet camera family compliant to GigE Vision and GenICam. The BVS CA-GW1 devices offer

  • small 25GigE industrial camera with form factor of 40 x 40 mm,
  • high performance – using the RoCE v2 protocol to facilitate low-latency, high-throughput data transfer,
  • easy implementation – by using the GigE Vision standard, and
  • cost effective, long range and simple connectivity – due to standard fiber optical connection technology SFP28.

The BVS CA-GW1 family is ideally suited for all classical areas of machine vision and allows an easy integration in the environment and support the application with helpful features to deliver faster and better results. The hardware capabilities can be teamed with machine vision libraries which are compliant to GigE Vision.

Software concept

The BVS CA-GW1 family is a GigE Vision compliant device, 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-GW1 firmware these can clearly be spotted by the leading 'mv' in the features name. The device can communicate with every third party compliant GigE Vision capture driver that can interpret GenICam XML-files.

The following figure shows the software concept of GenICam™ GenTL compliant devices built by Balluff/MATRIX VISION:

Figure 2: Software concept

As shown in figure 2, for the BVS CA-GW1 the Impact Acquire interface is stacked on the GigE Vision and Genicam layers. The Impact Acquire interface internally uses the GenICam runtime libraries, so that it can be considered as a user application written with the GenICam interface.

Order code nomenclature

BVS CA-GW1

The BVS CA-GW1 family nomenclature scheme is as follows:

SensorModel name
5.1 Mpix, 2472 x 2064, 1/1.8'', IMX537, CMOS BVS CA-GW1-0051BG/C
8.1 Mpix, 2848 x 2848, 2/3'', IMX487, CMOS BVS CA-GW1-0081UG
8.1 Mpix, 2845 x 2848, 2/3'', IMX536, CMOS BVS CA-GW1-0081ZG/C
12.4 Mpix, 4128 x 3008, 1/1.1'', IMX535, CMOS BVS CA-GW1-0124BG/C
12.4 Mpix, 6040 x 2040, 1.1'', IMX902, CMOS BVS CA-GW1-0124FG/C
16.2 Mpix, 5328 x 3040, 1.1'', IMX532, CMOS BVS CA-GW1-0162ZG/C
16.4 Mpix, 8008 x 2040, 1.4'', IMX901, CMOS BVS CA-GW1-0164AG/C
20.4 Mpix, 4512 x 4512, 1.1'', IMX531, CMOS BVS CA-GW1-0204ZG/C
24.6 Mpix, 5328 x 4608, 1.2'', IMX530, CMOS BVS CA-GW1-0246ZG/C
SeriesSensorColorHW VariantCUP/STD
TypecodeBVS CA-GW1-xxxxxG/C -see legend below-see legend below
LegendModel name
HW Variant(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)

(1): Handling
1: Standard handling
2: Extended temperature (-30 C to 65 C)

(2): Lensholder
1: C-mount (standard)
N: TFL-mount

(3): Filter
0: Without filter and protection
1: IR-CUT (standard)
2: Glass

(4): Housing
1: Color black (standard)

(5): I/O
1: Standard I/O

(6): Software Adjustments
0: Standard
CUP/STD001

What's inside and accessories

Due to the varying fields of application the BVS CA-GW is shipped without accessories. The package contents:

  • BVS CA-GW

For the first use of BVS CA-GW we recommend the following accessories to get the camera up and running:

  • network cable and
  • power supply via
    • 24 V (1.5 A) power supply (see below),
  • a lens.

Recommended accessories for the BVS CA-GW can be found on the product page: