Matrox Electronic Systems manual Matrox Meteor-II boards, Matrox Meteor-II /Standard

10 Chapter 1: Introduction

Matrox Meteor-II boards

Matrox Meteor-II comes in four versions: Matrox Meteor-II /Standard, Matrox Meteor-II /Multi-Channel, Matrox Meteor-II /Digital, and Matrox Meteor-II /1394. Some of these boards are available in different form factors, namely PCI, CompactPCI, and PC/104-Plus. All boards and form factors support real time image transfer to Host memory, and can be programmed with the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) or any of its derivatives.

Matrox Meteor-II /Standard

Matrox Meteor-II /Standard is a standard monochrome and color analog frame grabber. This board is available in a PCI, PC/104-Plus, or CompactPCI (3U) form factor, all of which can use a Matrox Meteor-II MJPEG module for compression and decompression of monochrome and color images.

BNC Connector for PCI and Compact PCI form factors

VMChannel (not available on CompactPCI and PC/104-Plus)

To DB-44 Connector for PCI and Compact PCI form factors

To 30-pin male, right-angle connector for PC/104-Plus form factor

Not available on CompactPCI form factor

VID_IN1				Low
VID_IN2				Pass	Gain Decoder
VID_IN3
				Filter
VID_IN4
VID_IN5		12:1
VID_IN6
			MUX
VID_IN7
VID_IN8
VID_IN9
VID_IN10
VID_IN11
VID_IN12
Trigger						Opto-
Aux	{	2				coupler
		2
RX
			RS-232
TX
/RTS			drivers &			UART
/CTS			receivers

24 32

VIA

32

MJPEG

Module

(optional)

64

SGRAM (4 Mbytes)

Not available on PC/104-Plus	Host 32-bit PCI bus
form factor