README.md

GigE Camera Simulator

This is a GigE camera simulator written in C#.

Functions:

• Discover: answering discovery requests
• Software Trigger: Provide images for software trigger requests.

How it works:

The simulator is a state machine that provides access to a simulated camera memory. A GigE Vision client can read and write to this memory/register to control the simulated camera. When the simulator starts, it uses the "data/memory.xml" file to initially write default values to the memory (e.g. "Manufacturer_name" or "image-width"). In addition, the camera description file "data/camera.xml" is written into the memory at start-up, which contains the functional description of the camera.

When the client writes to register 0x30c, an image is sent to the client.

To configure your simulator camera, you must:

• edit the file "data/memory.xml" to set the memory values.
• edit "data/camera.xml" if you want to change the camera functions
• edit "program.cs" to add logic to the camera and provide image files

Specification

see: https://www.visiononline.org/userAssets/aiaUploads/File/GigE_Vision_Specification_2-0-03.pdf

Inspired by

• Aravis
• tualo / gigecamera-simulator

See also:

• https://github.com/Strongc/VirtualGEVCam