firewire video on RTEMS-4.6.x-MVME5500

[Kate Feng]

Mark Rivers wrote:

>> Does the window has any tool to measure the actual
>> network throughput of the  1GHz ?  Or do you have any
>> H/W tool to measure it ?  If so, how many Mega bytes/sec
>> of throughput ?
>  
> I don't see a tool in their software to measure the network 
> throughput.  I can do a simple calculation for the full frame size at 
> 30 FPS 8-bit mode:
>  
>  1360.*1024.*30.*8 = 334 Mbits/second.

>  
> This is the real data throughput to the display, and does not include 
> any protocol overhead.
>  
> The Norpix software includes a replacement Ethernet driver on Windows 
> which looks at all frames before the Windows network stack gets them.  
> The camera frames go directly to the camera application, and only 
> other frames are passed to the Windows network stack.  So using the 
> Window network perfomance monitor shows virtually no traffic at all.

Does the camera come with it's own display ?  Or do you use EPICS CA for
display ?  If the real data throughput to the EPICS display is 334 
Mbits/sec,
you should see 42 Mega Bytes/sec of high traffic using the Window network
perfromace monitor.  If it shows no traffic at all, then the display 
could be
only 1 frame/second (e.g. 11 Mbits/sec) while the data transfer is 334 
Mbits/sec.

What's the protocol the camera use for tranferring the data to the host PC ?
I thought it's the GigE network.  If so, you should see at least 334 
Mbits/sec
data throughput on the window network performance monitor.  Something
does not make sense to me.

Kate

>
>
>> Can the window run remote client ?
>  
> I don't think so.  But there is a development library to write your 
> own client.
>  
> Mark
>  
>
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Kate Feng [mailto:feng1 at bnl.gov]
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:43 PM
>     *To:* Mark Rivers
>     *Cc:* Daron Chabot; rtems-users at rtems.org; tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
>     *Subject:* Re: firewire video on RTEMS-4.6.x-MVME5500
>
>     Mark Rivers wrote:
>
>>     I recently got a GigE camera from Prosilica.  It is 1360x1024
>>     resolution.  At 8-bits the StreamPix software from Norpix is able
>>     to acheive frame rates of 30Hz at full resolution, and 52 Hz when
>>     it is 2x2 binned to 680x512.  This is under Windows, using the
>>     single GigE port on the PC, with the camera and PC connected
>>     directly to a GigE switch (which also is connected to the rest of
>>     the LAN).
>
>
>     Does the window has any tool to measure the actual
>     network throughput of the  1GHz ?  Or do you have any
>     H/W tool to measure it ?  If so, how many Mega bytes/sec
>     of throughput ?
>
>     Can the window run remote client ?
>
>     Regards,
>     Kate
>
>>      
>>     Mark
>>      
>>
>>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>         *From:* tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov
>>         [mailto:tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov] *On Behalf Of *Kate Feng
>>         *Sent:* Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:17 AM
>>         *To:* Daron Chabot; rtems-users at rtems.org; tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
>>         *Subject:* Re: firewire video on RTEMS-4.6.x-MVME5500
>>
>>         Daron Chabot wrote:
>>
>>>         Sorry for not being more clear: I am only interested in the
>>>         EPICS and EDM applications you've created for displaying
>>>         the video, not in any of the RTEMS-related code.
>>
>>         I did not change any EDM applications or EPICS base.  The
>>         protocol
>>         is CA.   The optimization is implemented at RTEMS device driver
>>         and IIDC1394 library layers. The BSP is RTEMS-MVME5500.
>>         The driver does not have to be linked to EPICS.
>>         It is just another real-time application with the RTEMS-MVME5500
>>         BSP.  It triggers the camera at 30 fps and  display at 30Hz
>>         simultaneously for the 1024x768x8bit mode (video mode) even
>>         under the
>>         limited 100MHz network bandwidth and indeterministic network
>>         environment.
>>         Yes,  in the 100MHz NIC, the actual network throughput is not
>>         30Hzx1024x768x8 bits. But it is greater than 10Hz.  Thus, the
>>         system does
>>         not have to run in a private network. I do not believe it
>>         will  be slower with a non-EPICS application. 
>>
>>>         Here at the CLS we're using linux-based soft IOCs to
>>>         communicate with Flea and Flea2 cameras.
>>>          
>>>         We're having difficulty in achieving video frame rates
>>>         greater than about 10 Hz at 640x480 resolution. I'm
>>>         interested to know how you are getting such fine performance
>>>         (aside from using RTEMS :-) ).
>>>          
>>
>>
>>         Perhaps I will have the optimization written in a
>>         publication, so that
>>         hopefully it can help the Linux or vxWorks users.  If so, 
>>         will you
>>         feedback to this list regarding how much improvement you achieved
>>         in the Linux driver ?
>>
>>         Regards,
>>         Kate
>>
>

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