Genicam transport Layer

Question

I am new to Genicam standard, i having issue on understanding the transport layer for gigE camera. I couldnt find any detail information or guideline on writing a gigE camera transport layer as mostly it is provided by the camera vendor directly. Appreciate if anyone can share some information about this.

Answer 1

Dalsa did provide GigE-V Framework at their website. From the source code provided, there are several function is compile as .so file but it is still manageable to reverse engineer the function in driver. I am working until the camera register part. So it is a good reference to understand gige vision driver and genicam. Below is the result i get:

GigE Vision Library GenICam C Example Program (Aug 29 2017)
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[0][22]: 192.168.34.22 , D0:67:E5:2B:B2:3D
[1][26]: 192.168.34.26 , 0C:C4:7A:4C:96:C1
[2][30]: 192.168.34.30 , 00:01:29:65:93:A5
[0][14]: 192.168.128.14 , 3A:F4:E2:F9:AF:F7
4 camera(s) on the network
Please enter selected camera Index:3
Socket Handle success! 
Available Port 8080 
Available Port 8081 
Available Port 8082 
Gev_CreateConnection 
[testGev_CreateConnection]: IP 192.168.128.14 Port 8080
Connected! 
[GevInitCameraRegisters]: supported camera 19
Found Your Camera Model Nano Nano

Answer 2

The most widely used transport layer for GigE cameras is the GigEVision protocol. The standard is available as free from the AIA website, but is not open source compatible.

Aravis is a reverse engineered open source implementation of this protocol.