BitFlow Frame Grabbers Now Support AMD DirectGMA to Achieve Real-time, Latency-free Imaging
BitFlow becomes first manufacturer to support both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs
WOBURN, MA, OCTOBER 22, 2015 -- BitFlow, the world's leading innovator of frame grabbers for machine vision and scientific imaging, is helping vision engineers realize a future where system components and software run seamlessly together by becoming the first frame grabber manufacturer to support workstation graphics processor units (GPU) from both NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
"Following our successful launch of the new BitFlow GPU Direct for Video earlier this year, we are now heralding another advance for our customers who use AMD GPUs," explained Donal Waide, Director of Sales for BitFlow. "Compatibility of our frame grabbers with these high-powered GPU designs will help BitFlow continue to dominate the corner of the market where customers are moving large volumes of data, typically with CXP cameras up to 2.5 GB/S, directly to the GPU for processing."
New software extensions co-developed by BitFlow and the two GPU makers bring the awesome processing power of NVIDIA GPU Direct for Video and AMD DirectGMA to BitFlow Cyton™, Alta™, Neon™, Karbon™ and Axion™ frame grabbers by enabling integration of the GPUs with the BitFlow Buffer Interface API (BufIn). In doing so, Bufln can acquire images and synchronize transfer directly to the memory of AMD GPUs to achieve real-time, zero latency processing.
Without the use of an extension, the CPU would be required to copy images from a BitFlow or other third-party frame grabber's buffers to GPU buffers, creating a lengthy delay of wasted cycles. This delay would impact the quality of machine vision as well as the volume of items that can be inspected per second.
About BitFlow
BitFlow has been developing reliable, high-performance Frame Grabbers for use in imaging applications since 1993. BitFlow is the leader in Camera Link frame grabbers, building the fastest frame grabbers in the world, with the highest camera/frame grabber densities, triggering performance, and price. With thousands of boards installed throughout the world, into hundreds of imaging applications, BitFlow is dedicated to using this knowledge and experience to provide customers with the best possible image acquisition and application development solutions. BitFlow, located in Woburn, MA, has distributors and resellers located all over the world including Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Visit our website at http://www.bitflow.com.
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