47Alvium USB Cameras User Guide V4.6.1
Document history and conventions
Terms and acronyms
Term or
acronym
Description Reference
bare
board
Camera consisting of electronics and
sensor on a common printed circuit board
(PCB), to be designed into a housing with
heat sink and lens mount
Bare Board 180° (standard Alvium) on page
208
CRA Chief ray angle Alvium 1800 U-500m/c on page 132
EMVA European Machine Vision Association www.emva.org
ERS Electronic rolling shutter, see RS
Shutter types affecting image readout on page
305
ESD Electrostatic discharge ESD on page 56
FCC Federal Communications Commission For customers in the USA on page 51
FPNC Pixed pattern noise correction Image data flow on page 291
fps Frames per second Alvium 1800 U-500m/c on page 132
GenICam Generic Interface for Cameras, EMVA www.emva.org
GND Ground (power) I/O connector pin assignment on page 277
GPIOs
General purpose inputs and outputs
(non-isolated)
GPIOs description on page 284
GRRS Global reset release shutter, see GRS
Shutter types affecting image readout on page
305
GRS Global reset shutter, see GRRS
Shutter types affecting image readout on page
305
GS Global shutter
Shutter types affecting image readout on page
305
H × V Horizontal × Vertical (sensor resolution) Alvium 1800 U-500m/c on page 132
KByte Kilobyte Alvium 1800 U-500m/c on page 132
MByte/s Megabytes per second Alvium 1800 U-500m/c on page 132
MP Megapixels (see P)
Alvium 1800 U model specifications on page
76
open
housing
Camera housing that is open at the back
side to be designed into an encompassing
housing with other components
Open Housing S-Mount 180° (standard
Alvium) on page 212
P Pixels (see MP)
Alvium 1800 U model specifications on page
76
PCBA Printed circuit board assembly PCBAs on page 56
QE Quantum efficiency Absolute QE on page 134
ROI Region of interest ROI frame rates on page 135
Table 5: Terms and acronyms (sheet 1 of 2)