Cognex announces PCIe Camera Link Frame Grabbers

MVS-8600e Series of PCI Express Camera Link® frame grabbers boost performance in high-bandwidth applications

Cognex Corporation, the world's leading supplier of industrial machine vision systems, announced today the MVS-8600e family of frame grabbers that connect Camera Link® cameras through the PCI Express (PCIe) interface.

“PCI Express is the best match for higher bandwidth Camera Link cameras,” said Marilyn Matz, Cognex Senior VP, Semiconductor and Electronics. “By combining Cognex’s industry-leading VisionPro machine vision software with Camera Link cameras and PCIe, customers achieve new levels of performance and value when addressing the most challenging automated inspection and quality assurance applications.”

The new Cognex® MVS-8600e frame grabbers are available in cost-effective single-channel and dual-channel models that increase throughput even with extremely large images. Like all Cognex frame grabbers, the MVS-8600e models are equipped with the industry’s highest performance machine vision software tools that locate objects or patterns, measure their geometric properties, detect defects, and read characters and codes with reliable, accurate and repeatable results.