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Example 1: 1394b bandwidth of Guppy PRO cameras
Example 2: More than one Guppy PRO camera at full speed
Due to the fact that one Guppy PRO camera can, depending on its settings,
saturate a 32-bit PCI bus, you are advised to use either a PCI Express card
and/or multiple 64-bit PCI bus cards, if you want to use 2 or more Guppy PRO
cameras simultaneously (see the following table).
Guppy PRO model Resolution Frame rate Bandwidth
Guppy PRO F-031B/C 0.3 megapixels 123fps 39 MByte/s
Guppy PRO F-032B/C 0.3 megapixels 82 fps 26 MByte/s
Guppy PRO F-033B/C 0.3 megapixels 84 fps 27 MByte/s
Guppy PRO F-046B/C 0.45 megapixels 61 fps 28 MByte/s
Guppy PRO F-095C 0.9 megapixels 38 fps 36 MByte/s
Guppy PRO F-125B/C 1.2 megapixels 31 fps 38 MByte/s
Guppy PRO F-146B/C 1.4 megapixels 17 fps 20 MByte/s
Guppy PRO F-201B/C 2.0 megapixels 14 fps 28 MByte/s
Guppy PRO F-503B/C 5.0 megapixels 13 fps 65 MByte/s
Table 4: Bandwidth of Guppy PRO cameras
Note
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All data are calculated using Raw8 / Mono8 color mode.
Higher bit depths or color modes will double or triple band-
width requirements.
# cameras PC hardware required
1 Guppy PRO camera at full speed 1 x 32-bit PCI bus card (85 MByte/s)
2 or more Guppy PRO cameras at full
speed PCI Express card and/or
Multiple 64-bit PCI bus cards
Table 5: Required hardware for multiple camera applications