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AVT FirePackage - more information

General
The AVT FirePackage is a comprehensive software package designed for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems. Due to its high-performance IEEE1394 bus driver, the contained SDK provides full access to and control of the FireWire bus and the corresponding image transmission for data rates of up to 800 Mbit/s (1394b), even under Windows Vista and XP.

Components
The AVT FirePackage is available free of charge and provides the following components:

  • A high-performance IEEE1394 driver, including an easy to use driver installation tool
  • Several high and low level application programming interfaces (APIs) provided as C, C++ or .Net Dynamic Link Library (DLL), which can be used with Microsoft’s Visual Studio or other development environments like Borland C++,
  • Comprehensive camera viewer (Smartview.exe) optimized for use with AVT IEEE1394 cameras to evaluate their Smart Features, or just to test and configure the camera itself. Additionally, this tool can be used to update the firmware of AVT 1394 cameras
  • Various examples based on the provided APIs, amongst others two open-source demo viewers,
  • .pdf or .chm documents to describe the APIs and their usage.


In combination with AVT cameras and with their powerful Smart Features, the AVT FirePackage enables programmers to develop 32- or 64-bit high-performance machine vision application that require time-critical and asynchronous imaging, sometimes with rapidly changing data rates in single or multiple camera operation.

1394 Bus Driver
The provided 1394 bus driver is not a capture device (camera) driver based on the Microsoft 1394 driver stack. This means that the Microsoft driver is replaced on all cards the driver is installed to, and the access for devices and applications that require the Microsoft driver is blocked.
The big advantage of this approach is that the driver is highly efficient and stable and supports IEEE1394b at S800 speed by default.

Besides this, the 1394 bus driver

  • Works with almost every IEEE1394a/b adapter, no matter whether OHCI or PCILynx, on board or PCI-Type or PCMCIA;
  • Can operate and display multiple cameras in parallel;
  • Is designed by programmers with a long background in industrial imaging and solid software know-how;
  • Is the ideal solution for your IEEE1394 camera application.

In addition, please note that the driver requires a separate license for non-AVT cameras.

Supported 32- and 64-bit Operating Systems:

  • Windows7
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP