Fire-i™ Board Digital Camera is a board-level fully operational FireWire 400Mbps camera, complying with IIDC 1.04 specification for industrial uncompressed VGA picture acquisition. Built with 1394 TI chipsets and Sony®'s Wfine CCD sensors, it is a high quality subassembly for OEM use.

Fire-i™ Board Digital Camera offers:
• 400Mbps 1394a, IIDC v1.04 DCAM spec. compliance
• Uncompressed VGA picture up to 30 fps
• Square pixels, 1/4'' CCD
• Full frame electronic shutter with progressive scanning
• On-board 6 pin 1394a port and power jack input 8-30 VDC
• Second 6 pin 1394a port on removable daughter board
• Standard lens base M12x0.5 (lens not included)
• Small size and very low power consumption
• Embedded hardware license for Unibrain's Fire-i™ Software & SDK & Microsoft® compatible drivers.

CE and FCC compliant

  
Dual port Fire-i™ Board Camera (new!)

This is a new revision of the Fire-i™ board camera in which the daughterboard that hosts the second firewire port has been eliminated and instead the two firewire ports are now soldered on the main camera body.
Furthermore, a basic strobe functionality has been added.
The Dual Port Fire-i™ board camera is available in both colour and b/w models under special request. 

 
Fire-i™ Digital Board Camera Remote CCD

 All models (Colour, Black & White) of Unibrain’s Fire-i™ Digital Board Camera can be produced with the unique feature of a Remote CCD connected to the main board via a high reliability and density 6-inch flat cable. Detailed product description can be retrieved from here.

Lenses for Fire-i™ Board Digital Camera :

Unibrain can provide you following lenses as standard products ( please consult us for special requests )

Common Features
• Progressive scanning allows full frame uninterlaced acquisition and shuttering
• 1/4” CCD, progressive, 659(H)x494(V) square pixels, identical horizontal and vertical resolutions
• Pixel size 5.6 µm(H) x 5.6 µm(V)
• Low smear, high sensitivity, low dark current
• Excellent antiblooming
• VGA output up to 30 fps
• Continuous variable electronic shutter
• outstanding low power consumption 0.9 W typical
• software controllable sleep mode 0.4 W
• 8 to 30 VDC power supply, by any 1394 input or by separate jack
• removable second 6 pin port
• standard lens base M12x0.5

Colour Version Features
• CCD ICX-098BQ with colour RGB Bayer filter, 400 TV lines
• 640x480 VGA out at 30 fps in YUV 4:1:1 and Y-8
• 640x480 VGA out at 15, 7.5 and 3.75 fps in YUV 4:1:1, YUV 4:2:2, RGB-24 and Y-8
• 320x240 out at 30, 15, 7.5 and 3.75 fps in YUV 4:2:2
• 160x120 out at 30, 15 and 7.5 fps in YUV 4:4:4
• Control of gain, shutter, black level, gamma, sharpness, white balance, colour saturation (Backlight compensation with SDK )
• colour bar generator

Monochrome version Features
• CCD ICX-098BL without filter, 480 TV lines
• 640x480 VGA out at 30, 15, 7.5, 3.75 fps in Y-8
• Control of Gain, Shutter, Black Level, Gamma, Sharpness, ( Backlight with SDK )

RAW Colour version Features
• CCD ICX-098BQ with colour RGB Bayer filter, 480 TV lines (as monochrome before de-Bayering, user dependent after)
• 640x480 VGA out at 30, 15, 7.5, 3.75 fps in Y-8
• Control of Gain, Shutter, Black Level, Gamma, White Balance, ( backlight compensation with SDK )

Supported Interfaces
Operates with any third party IEEE-1394 PCI or PCM/CIA OHCI compliant adapter or any Desktop/Portable PC or Mac with built-in FireWire support.

OS Supported
Windows 2000/XP
Mac OS 9.x/10.x
Linux

Embedded license
Unibrain's Fire-i™ Software & SDK & Microsoft® compatible drivers

Powering the camera

Fire-i™ Board Digital Camera is powered by the FireWire bus DC voltage, coming from host adapters or other FireWire devices connected with 6-pin cables.

Fire-i™ Board Digital Camera is provided with a DC power input jack connector, that can be used when the FireWire connection does not provide DC power. This happens typically:
- when the FireWire bus is converted to a 4-pin connection
- when, in 6-pin, no powering device is present, even from the FireWire interface. This is the case when using CardBus FireWire adapters or on some laptops with built-in interface.

Recommended DC adapter must provide stable regulated output voltage of at least 12VDC, 1 A.
To match camera DC input connector, the jack plug of the DC adapter need following dimensions and polarity as on the figure.

Fire-i™ Digital Board Camera exists in 3 versions:

• Fire-i™ Colour Digital Board Camera OEM, no lens : Part no.:  2056
  (Sony colour CCD, 400 TV lines).
• Fire-i™ B/W Digital Board Camera OEM, no lens : Part no.: 2057
  (Sony monochrome CCD, increased resolution 480 TV-lines, increased sensitivity, close IR sensitivity).
• Fire-i™ RAW Colour Digital Board Camera OEM, no lens : Part no.:  2060
  (Sony colour CCD, resol.480 TV-lines, streams like monochrome, colour processing by user (software)).
   
• Fire-i™ Colour Digital Board Camera KIT, no lens : Part no.:  2040
  (Includes board camera, 2m 1394a cable, CD with drivers and Fire-i camera control application).
• Fire-i™ B/W Digital Board Camera KIT, no lens : Part no.: 2050
  (Includes board camera, 2m 1394a cable, CD with drivers and Fire-i camera control application).
• Fire-i™ RAW Colour Digital Board Camera KIT, no lens : Part no.:  2059
  (Includes board camera, 2m 1394a cable, CD with drivers with drivers and Fire-i camera control application).