UFO Camera Data Format

• Consist of Header (256 bits), Payload data (size vary on the number of lines, size per line is 22528 bits) and Tail (256 bits).

Header data

• Current header structure consist of following eight 32-bit words:

Header bits	Value
255:224	0x51111111
223:192	0x52222222
191:160	0x53333333
159:128	0x54444444
127:96	0x55555555
95:92	0x5
91:82	starting line of the frame
81:75	number of skipped lines
74:64	number of lines in frame
63:60	0x5
59:56	version number, now 0x4
55:32	frame number
31:24	0x50
23:0	timestamp (80ns precision counter)

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Payload data

• Payload data per row for each of the 16 channels consist of the 32-bit Row Header, followed by the 42 32-bit words of the Row data, and final 32-bit Row Data Tail

ROW data header bits	Value
3:0	Channel number
14:4	Row number (from 0 to 1087)
15	0
19:16	Pixel size, now is 0xA (10)
27:20	Number of pixels in row
31:28	0x8

ROW data bits	Value
29:0	three pixels of 10-bit size
31:30	0x3

ROW data tail bits	Value
9:0	0x55
29:10	two pixels of 10-bit size
31:30	0x3

Tail data

• Tail contains system status information. It consists of the following eight 32-bit words:

Tail bits	Value
255:224	0x0AAAAAAA
223:192	0x0BBBBBBB
191:160	status1
159:128	status2
127:96	status3
95:64	0x0FFFFFFF
63:32	0x00000000
31:0	0x01111111