Family of C – adapters solve the growing need for video capturing and testing of the complete video content from combined display units. Displayed content of the popular combined units comes from different video sources – main part of the video stream is generated by relevant ECU (f.ex. MIB, ICAS, HCP) and the second part of the video stream, mainly security related indicators, is generated directly by display unit themselves.  C- module allows the video capturing of these unstandardized video streams generated directly by display unit and it is conversion to a standard LVDS bus protocol. We offer solution for a video stream capturing of full displayed content of various modern panorama and combi displays used within the VW Group.

C- adapter is connected to a source of the video stream unit directly via. specially designed ribbon cable and include programmed computing unit FPGA. C-adapter removes the spread spectrum from the original video stream, changes timing parameters, and convert them to a standardized LVDS bus output – FPD Link III or GMSL 2/3 while maintaining the same frame rate (1:1 serial pixel clock).

Conversion of the specific unstandardized video stream to a standardized LVDS bus protocol ensure high original quality of the grabbing, reliable and stable video stream with a minimal latency. 
It even allows to transfer of the video stream for a long distance (up to 5m), that would be impossible with original video stream. The developed C-adapters are fully compatible with FPD Link III and GMSL 2/3 interface modules of the new FrameGrabber4 (“FG4”) and the Modular Frame Grabber (“MGB”). 
This makes it easy to process the captured data on a computer and completely automate the entire unit testing process. We created a C-modules in two versions for more comfort use – single link that offers only FPD link III output, and the combined dual link version that offer both FPD Link III as well as GMSL 2/3 interface.

The C-adapter can be powered directly from the connected display or can be powered separately using the included micro-USB cable. 
C-adapters are always designed customly to a concrete unit due to used various interfaces. We currently developed three version of the C-adapters, marked C1, C2, C3 (see spefication bellow) Our team is open and glad adapt the C-adapter for additional display units uppon the request.