Camera Link HS: The Path to 50 Gbps and Beyond

McCurrach et al explain that inexpensive IP core speeds development and implementation of CLHS for camera and frame grabber manufacturers. Camera Link High Speed (Camera Link HS or CLHS) is a mature and robust interface standard for industrial cameras and systems. It evolved from Camera Link, the vision industry's first standard camera interface protocol. Originally released in 2000, Camera Link was a completely volunteer-developed protocol hosted by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) featuring real-time, high-bandwidth, parallel two-way communications between the camera and frame grabber. CLHS was introduced in 2012 and built on the low-latency, zero-jitter, real-time strengths of Camera Link. The CLHS standard further provided scalable bandwidths with extremely reliable data delivery, support for both copper and fiber cabling, and, importantly. Intellectual Property (IP) cores for ease of component development. The features and capabilities already in place in the CLHS standard stand to make the path to 50 Gbps effortless.