AVT Software - Abstract

Fire to Software!
AVT has specialized in digital cameras with IEEE1394 interfaces. While all AVT cameras are DCAM standard compliant, each AVT camera family offers many more functions than specified in the IIDC (1.30 and 1.31) standards of the 1394TA. These so called AVT SmartFeatures are accessible via direct register access, or by using special functions provided in the different AVT software packages.

All software packages provided by AVT are free of charge and contain the following components:

• the required drivers to integrate the cameras into your system
• a driver insatllation tool
• a Software development kit (SDK) for camera control and image acquisition
• examples based on the provided APIs of the SDK
• comprehensive documentation and release notes
• an all-embracing viewer application to operate and configure the cameras – use this tool to conveniently access and test the SmartFeatures of a Marlin, Dolphin, Oscar, Guppy, Pike or Stingray camera!

You may choose between:

AVT FirePackage
To achieve 100% control of the 1394 bus

AVT Active FirePackage
For ActiveX control based applications with WDM compatible driver

AVT Direct FirePackage
For DirectShow based applications with WDM compatible driver

AVT Fire4Linux
The perfect package for the Linux world

AVT's Software Selector Guide
To help AVT camera users to develop effective applications quickly and easily, AVT provides a new version of its well know Software Selector Guide.At the end of this brief interactive dialogue, you will get either a recommendation about which AVT SDK to use to develop your application or a link/hint which should help you to obtain sufficient information to integrate AVT cameras into the most popular 3rd- party solutions.


Windows SDK Selection
In addition, to help users to decide which AVT Windows SDK to select to develop their own vision application AVT provides several package comparison charts to compare the:
• General SDK features
• Windows OS support (Quick-Selector)
• AVT SmartFeatures support


3rd-Party Software Support
AVT cameras can easily be integrated into any 3rd-party vision software solution that supports the IIDC standard.
(click here for more information)

Additionally, to ensure a perfect "plug&play" solution for dedicated vision software solutions AVT provides both special software interfaces and various AVT FirePackage examples that describe how to interface to a 3rd-party solution.