A new digital transmission method designed by vision manufacturers specifically for the machine vision industry. Camera Link is a cable specification that includes data transmission as well as camera control and asynchronous serial communications all on a single cable. Cameras and frame grabbers can easily be interchanged using the same cable.
Smaller cables are more robust and less prone to breakage.
It defines a single connector for both the frame grabber and camera end, and ensures that all Camera Link products are interchangeable with one another. This configuration will transfer up to 28 bits of image data, along with the serial communications and camera control signals. Channel Link is made up of a receiver chip and a transmitter chip. This chipset is used to transmit digital data. This method, however, has several major drawbacks.