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Pleora Technologies, a provider of Gigabit Ethernet video connectivity products, has entered into a strategic licensing agreement with Cognex Corporation. Following the agreement, Pleora’s eBUS Driver Suite is now integrated with Cognex VisionPro and CVL (Cognex Vision Library) software.

 

“Pleora’s drivers for iPORT IP Engines have provided machine vision users with outstanding reliability and performance for years,” said George Chamberlain, president of Pleora Technologies. “Cognex is the recognized leader in the machine vision industry and this partnership will extend the reach of GigE Vision in machine vision applications.”

 

Pleora officials say the eBUS drivers optimize the performance of GigE Vision-based applications by making almost all CPU resources in the PC available for valuable image processing rather than simple data transfer. Cognex VisionPro and CVL software provide designers with the hardware-independent toolset required for fast and flexible vision application development.

 

“By bundling Pleora’s eBUS drivers with Cognex VisionPro, we provide our users with a high performance GigE solution to match our high performance vision tools” said Scott Favreau, director of PC vision product development at Cognex.

 

Cognex officials say the company has started distributing Pleora’s eBUS Driver Suite with Version 5.0 of Cognex VisionPro and 6.6 of Cognex CVL library. The eBUS Driver Suite is installed in the background with the Cognex applications, making the experience seamless for end users, company officials say.

 

The eBUS Universal Driver is ideal for most real-time vision applications. It runs on almost any vendor’s NIC (News - Alert) (Network Interface Card), handles all IP transport protocols, including ordinary network traffic and the GigE Vision image and data streams, according to the company.

 

The eBUS Optimal Driver is ideal for applications with very heavy processing overhead, company officials say. It runs on Intel’s (News - Alert) PRO/1000 family of NICs, handles all IP transport protocols.

 

Pleora’s eBUS drivers allow GigE NIC (network interface card/chip) hardware to follow direct, bus-like transactions with PC subsystems at the kernel level, company officials say.