How to Select a Camera for your Industrial Application
Frame rate in conjunction with resolution and the number of bytes per pixel determine the amount of data that needs to be transferred and processed. For example, a camera with a 1280 x 1024 (SXGA) resolution at 30 frames per second (fps) and 8bits (or 1 Byte) per pixel will require
a data bandwidth of approximately 50MBytes/sec. This is below the PCI bus limit (~100MB/sec) and is within the capabilities of 1394.b or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Anything beyond 100MB/sec will require a frame grabberbased system with Camera Link® interface and PC with PCI Express® bus.