Thanks to a quad-core processor and a just-in-time compiler, vision tasks with B&R Automation’s smart camera will be performed up to four times faster in the future. With the latest Steady version of MVTec’s Halcon library, the vision system now also has a just-in-time compiler (JIT). The program code to be executed is already created with the compiler when the application is loaded and not interpreted at runtime. As a result, the JIT compiler massively reduces the execution time for many functions. For measurement tasks, the time savings can be more than 75%. The JIT compiler is available with a simple software update. For multicore-capable vision algorithms, the advantages of the new quad-core processor also come into play. The higher computing power makes it possible, for example, to almost halve the clock times for matching applications.
247MP CMOS by Sony
Sony recently released a 247MP rolling shutter CMOS image sensor available in monochrome (IMX811-AAMR) and color (IMX811-AAQR) variants which have a 64.84mm diagonal, a square pixel array, as well as 5.3fps.