What Is CoaXPress? | Vision Campus

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CoaXPress | CXP

The CoaXPress (CXP) standard was originally launched by various companies in the industrial image processing sector.

The CoaXPress (CXP) standard was originally launched by various companies in the industrial image processing sector. The goal was to develop a fast data interface that also made it possible to bridge a large data volume across greater distances. The first CoaXPress interfaces were introduced at "Vision", the leading trade fair for industrial image processing in 2008 in Stuttgart. After three more years of development, CXP 1.0 was officially released as a standard in 2011. Since then, the standard has established itself in industrial image processing. This standard was then developed further, into CoaXPress 2.0. An interface with the CoaXPress 1.0/1.1 standard supports data rates as high as 6.25 Gbps. The transmission speed of the CoaXPress 2.0 standard is twice as high, at up to 12.5 Gbps. This allows for even higher resolutions and frame rates compared to other efficient standards. In contrast to the preceding interface, the new standard only needs half as many cables to transfer the same amount of data.

Thanks to the combined triggering and power supply (power over CXP), only one CoaXPress cable is needed, which can have a maximum cable length of 40 meters – another benefit of this update.