Piranha Color Camera User’s Manual 12DALSA 03-032-10211-01 5/9/20071.2 Image SensorThe Piranha Color camera uses a trilinear CCD sensor with three lines of pixels: oneblue, one red and one green. Depending on your camera model, each line containseither 2048 or 4096 pixels. As illustrated in the diagram below, the blue line has 2outputs (taps), and the red and green lines have 4 outputs.Figure 1: Sensor Block DiagramRed Tap 2Red Tap 1Blue Tap 2Blue Tap 12048 or 4096 pixelsRed Tap 4Red Tap 3Green Tap 2Green Tap 1 Green Tap 4Green Tap 3Red Tap 2Red Tap1Blue Tap1Green Tap 2Green Tap130 μm (4k)42 μm (2k)30 μm (4k)42 μm (2k)The three color lines areseparated30 μm (4k) or 42 μm (2k) apartcenter tocenter.
