Triggered Acquisition

If the Acquire Step is triggered, the Acquire and Snapshot Steps are executed concurrently, allowing the acquisition of an image to occur while the processing of the previous image is underway. This uses an additional image buffer per Snapshot to store the image while Snapshot processes the previous one. This is called pipeline execution.

Note: If the triggering occurs in bursts and the image processing takes significant time, the pipeline can get several images deep while the image processing works on the current image.

In triggered mode, the inspection busy signal and data valid signals are available to implement handshaking with the control system providing the triggers.