A full software suite including drivers, SDK and application is provided with all models. As pioneers in PCMCIA frame grabber technology, thousands of customers across the globe rely on Imperx frame grabbers to develop and implement solutions to various applications, which include medical imaging, surveillance, law enforcement, and other. The IMPERX VCE-CLPCIe01 is a professional level frame grabber that enables users to view and store in real time megapixel video images from Camera Link® sources onto desktop computers. IMPERX VCE-CLPCIe01 is capable of capturing single or multiple frames and standard AVI clips on up to two base or one medium Camera Link® compliant video source.
The Camera Link® standard defines a communications protocol over a dedicated cable connection and supports high bandwidth for fast transfer of imagery.
With MATLAB® and Simulink®, users are able to integrate standard Camera Link frame grabbers into their workflows to capture live video and images for processing.
The toolbox supports Camera Link frame grabbers provided by the manufacturers listed below:
Camera Link frame grabbers are supported on the following operating systems:
Imperx Drivers
- Windows (64-bit) (select boards only)
Imperx Driver Test
Please see the Troubleshooting section of the Image Acquisition Toolbox documentation for information regarding software configuration for vendor-specific boards.
Camera Manufacturers
Many vendors provide Camera Link cameras that can be used with the frame grabbers listed above, including but not limited to:
- Photonfocus
- Pulnix (now JAI)
- Silicon Imaging
- SVS-VISTEK
Platform and Release Support:
See the hardware support package system requirements table for current and prior version, release, and platform availability.
The FrameLink Express is a Camera Link frame grabber designed especially for ExpressCard laptops. It provides the functionality, performance and versatility required by today’s most demanding vision systems. The FrameLink Express is a highly versatile frame grabber capable of acquiring images from a Camera Link base camera. It features a flow-through pipeline architecture with an intelligent scatter/gather DMA engine providing over 235 Mbytes/s of throughput. A full software suite, including drivers, C/C++ SDK, and an application program, is provided with the card.
Imperx Driver

Imperx Driver Jobs
- Supports one Base Camera Link interface.
- ExpressCard/34 compliant providing 2.5 Gbps of bandwidth
- Intelligent scatter/gather DMA (235 MBytes/sec) for fast, efficient use of ExpressCard bandwidth and system memory
- Flow-through pipeline architecture for low latency
- Built-in CC pulse generators
- Many advanced features including lookup tables, histograms, RGB gain/offset with auto-white balance, hex pixel dump, etc.
- Bayer pattern interpolation
- Unique ‘auto-learn’ feature automatically recognizes camera parameters and simplifies CAM file creation
- Plug-and-play operation with hot insertion/removal
- Backwards compatible with FrameLink (PCMCIA) software