Vimba USB TL Release Notes

Version: 1.5.0

Components and Version Reference

Component	Version
USB Transport Layer (VimbaUSBTL.cti)	1.5.0*
Vimba USB Driver (Windows only)	1.0.1
Vimba Driver Installer (VimbaDriverInstaller.exe)	2.0.0

Hardware Requirements

PC or laptop with 1 GHz x86 processor or better.
ARMv8-compatible 64-bit embedded system, for example, Jetson Xavier.
MacBookPro or Mac mini with M2 chip
Additionally, a built-in USB 3.0 (or higher) controller for PCI Express bus is required.

Remark (for macOS, see the macOS release notes):

Testing has been performed on host controllers that are based on Asmedia chip sets. The driver may run on host controllers that are based on chip sets from other vendors, too. If there are any problems please feel free to contact our Technical Support.

Installation

The Vimba USB Transport Layer is part of the Vimba X SDK. Linux: For instructions on how to install this module, please refer to the Vimba X for Linux or ARM64 Release Notes.

Correlations with other Allied Vision Software Packages

You can install and use Vimba and Vimba X on the same host.

Known issues

MSI Uninstallation by new Windows 10 dialog “Apps&Features” is not supported by now. Please use the old “Programs and Features” dialog.

Changes and release history

Changes in version 1.5.0

Added new GenTL Buffer Info “BUFFER_INFO_DATA_SIZE”
Updated uriparser to 0.9.8

Changes in version 1.4.6

Added macOS support
Added Event support

Changes in version 1.4.4

Fixed: Unknown USB DeviceLocation

Changes in version 1.4.3

Improved: standard conformity of resend for control channel commands

Changes in version 1.4.2

Display name: AVT USB TL (instead of Vimba USB TL)

Changes in version 1.4.1

Fixed: software trigger for multiple cameras (error applied to Windows only)

Changes in version 1.4.0

Fixed: Reset cameras streaming state when opened (Endpoint Halt)
New: Zero-Copy for Linux/libusb for better performance
Updated 3rd-party libraries

Changes in version 1.3.0

Increased default MaxTransferSize value for better performance with current Linux versions
Improved camera detection on Linux systems (plugin event handling)

Changes in version 1.2.2

Solved conflicts between customers’ boost version and the internally used version
Other internal bug fixes

Changes in version 1.2.1

Improved visibility of USB camera status
Other bug fixes

Driver Installer:

The version was incremented to 2.0.0 because of internal changes (no functional changes for the user)

Changes in version 1.2.0

GenTL 1.5 support

Changes in version 1.1.1

USB Transport Layer

Minor bug fixes

Installer and driver

New certificates for installer and driver (Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1)

Changes in version 1.1.0

USB Transport Layer

Minor bug fixes
Added transport layer XML file caching

Changes in version 1.0.3

USB Transport Layer

Minor bug fixes
Interface features DeviceDriverPath and DeviceLocation added