Princeton Digital (USA) 4411-0062 User Manual

 

  

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With time, the PentaMAX has evolved enhanced capabilities as reflected in the Version 
number of the instrument. To access the full capabilities, it is necessary that the Version 
be correctly selected in software. This can be easily done from the Hardware Setup pages 
of WinView/32 and WinSpec/32. A brief description of each version follows. 

Unit Prototype - none of these units are in the field. 

This camera version has the 1750-0165 PCB for scan control. This PCB does not have a 
hardware look-up table for video (video displays top 8-bits of data only), does not 
implement frame-transfer timing mode, and does not have an auto-stop frame count 
register. 

This camera version has the 1750-0256 PCB for scan control. This PCB has a hardware 
look-up table for video, implements frame-transfer timing mode, and has an auto-stop 
frame count register. This version also uses a 1750-0256 PCB which has an EPLD 
program version 2.0 (CS : 00339142) for U4. This EPLD has a bug that affects 
customers running the camera asynchronously. See Version 4 below. 

This camera version has the 1750-0256 PCB for scan control with an EPLD program 
version 2.1 (CS : 0033900C) for U4. This EPLD program corrects a bug that is present in 
ALL previous versions of the camera. The bug can cause the camera to return bad data 
after a Safe Mode software reset is performed.  

This camera version uses the 1750-0314 PCB for scan control and 175x-0166-D for the 
Serial Comm./Power PCB. These PCB’s implement a variety of new features, including 
the following: