Electronics Weekly
It has 5,136 x 3,856 pixels, a USB3 interface and a closed housing measuring 29 x 29 x 17mm that includes a mechanical interface for C-mount lenses.
“With the rolling shutter sensor AR2020 [is] the technical
successor of the Onsemi AR1820,” said IDS. “With 20Mpixel, the sensor provides an impressive 5K UHD resolution that makes even the smallest details reliably visible. This benefits applications such as surface inspection and quality control as well as laboratory analyses.”
Frame rate with maximum resolution is 15 per second but, if less detail can be tolerated, it can produce 27frame/s videos at 1,920 x 1,080 resolution.
“Due to the larger, 1.4 μm, pixels, users have more leeway when choosing the appropriate lens”.
The company offers cameras with both colour and monochrome AR2020 variants, with the monochrome version offering more sensitivity for low-light applications and microscopy.
As well as the USB interface, which handles 5Gbit/s data and power, there is a multi-purpose IO connector with 3.3V output, two lines of GPIO, a trigger input and a flash control output.
IDS, Imaging Development Systems, is based in Obersulm Germany and makes cameras as well as an AI image processing platform and hosting an on-line marketplace bringing suppliers of image processing solutions and end customers together.
Founded by two people in 1997, it now has ~350 employees and branches and representative offices in the USA, Japan, South Korea, the UK, France and the Netherlands.
