User`s manual

Smart Features

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BASLER A600f

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5.7.7 Extended Version Information

A600f cameras include a register that contains version numbers for the camera’s internal

software. For troubleshooting purposes, Basler technical support may ask you to read this register

and to supply the results.

Control and Status Register for the Extended Version Information Feature

The extended version information smart feature does not add information to the im-

age data stream and can be accessed even when the extended data stream feature

(see Section 5.7.1) is disabled.

The extended version feature will work when the camera is set for any valid video for-

mat.

Name Extended_Version_Information

Address See “Determining the Address of Smart Features CSRs” on page 5-4.

CSR GUID 2B2D8714 - C15E - 4176 - A235 - 6EF843D747B4

Field Bit Description

Presence_Inq

(Read only)

[0] Presence of this feature

0: Not Available 1: Available

----- [1 ... 7] Reserved

Length [8 ... 15] Specifies the length in quadlets of the “string” field.

----- [16 ... 31] Reserved

Version_Info [n Bytes] An ASCII character string that includes the version numbers for the

camera’s internal software. The length of this string field is equal to the

number of quadlets given in the “length” field above.

The ASCII character string in the Version_Info field contains the camera’s “firmware

ID” number. You can read the string to determine your camera’s firmware ID. The ID

number’s position in the string is described in Section 1.1.