Software - PC ImageFlow Library
PC ImageFlow consists of 4 major componets
- Pipeline device control - set/inquire every possible attribute on every device
- Pipeline builder / PAT management - use connect functions to build pipeline out of specific device resources. Can pre-build many different “pipes” and save as optimized PATs (pipeline altering threads) for quick real-time re-programming of pipeline at run-time.
- Event Manager - synchronize the running of PATs with internal and external real time events (interrupts) such as camera, part in place, completion of PAT, start of line #N, etc.
- OS Lib - Operating System specific function library - removes dependencies on current OS specific functions - guarantees portability to future OS platforms (e.g WindowsNT 5.0 in 1999)