Calculating the data rate of area scan cameras

The required bandwidth of the interface depends on the resolution, number of cameras and captured images per second and the bit depth of the data format.

Typical for monochrome cameras is a data rate of 8 bits = 1 byte, if 10 or 12 bits of image information are transferred, 2 bytes are effectively used for the transmission of data.
Colour cameras can transmit RGB colour images with a data depth of 24 bits, in case of the YUV-coded variant 16 bits (2 bytes) and as Bayer raw data image only 8 bits (1 byte).

Data Rate = Resolution * Frame rate * bit depth

Note: Even when using the drop-down lists own values can be entered. Please use the first entry "user def."!

Resolution of camera/ megapixels:	User def.(megapixels) 640x480 pixels 800x600 pixels 1024x768 pixels 1280x720 pixels 1000x1000 pixels 1280x1024 pixels 1388x1038 pixels 1600x1200 pixels 1920x1080 pixels 3 megapixels 4 megapixels 5 megapixels 6 megapixels 7 megapixels 8 megapixels 10 megapixels 12 megapixels 14 megapixels 16 megapixels 20 megapixels 24 megapixels
Data format of the camera:	Mono 8 Bit Mono 10/12/16 Bit Color Bayer 8 Bit Color YUV 16 Bit Color RGB 24 Bit 32 Bit 48 Bit
Number of frames per second from all cameras:
Calculated net data rate per second: