microEnable IV is a programmable, high performance frame grabber based on the PCI Express interface. It can be connected with CameraLink cameras from one BASE up to 10taps FULL configuration cameras. The boards are equipped with interfaces for PCIe x1 (single lane) up to PCIe x4 (quad lanes). On-board capabilities from 128 MB up to 512 MB DDR-RAM grant a short latency and, in conjunction with the PCI Express interface, a high bandwidth.

The frame grabber system of microEnable IV is extensible in different ways. TTL trigger boards as well as opto-coupled trigger boards with eight inputs and eight outputs are available. By use of CameraLink duplicator CLIO, original image data of the camera can be distributed and processed on up to 256 microEnable IV boards by a daisy chain. Even FULL configuration cameras are supported by the CLIO extension. The PXplant interface is a processor extension to increase the processing capability of the frame grabber.

The FPGA is the vision processor of the frame grabber and "image processing centre" at the same time. High specialized and optimized hardware applets can easily be loaded during the initialization of the board. The applets include necessary functions and features for each operation mode and offer additionally special features for image enhancements without CPU load.

Special adaptations to the requirement of an application can be realized by customized hardware applets. In combination with VisualApplets®, a customer is able to implement image processing algorithms easily into the FPGA of microEnable IV frame grabber. VisualApplets® is a graphic-oriented tool, which simplifies the programming of FPGA hardware.